"EPA Denies Petition For Expanded TSCA Asbestos Reporting"
"The US EPA has denied an NGO petition to require increased reporting of asbestos under the TSCA chemical data reporting (CDR) rule."
Source: ChemicalWatch, 01/04/2019
Environmental Health
Communities Confront Threat Of Unregulated Chemicals In Drinking Water
"PARCHMENT, Mich. — The day this small town told its residents to stop drinking the water, life on Glendale Boulevard turned from quiet to alarming."
Source: Washington Post, 01/04/2019
A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers
"The children fell ill, one by one, with cancers that few families in this suburban Indianapolis community had ever heard of. An avid swimmer struck down by glioblastoma, which grew a tumor in her brain. Four children with Ewing’s sarcoma, a rare bone cancer. Fifteen children with acute lymphocytic leukemia, including three cases diagnosed in the past year."
Source: NY Times, 01/03/2019
"Tops On House Democrats’ To-Do List: Try To End Shutdown"
"House Democrats are sweeping into power this week on a campaign promise of improving government for ordinary Americans. But first, they’ll have to get government reopened from the partial shutdown."
Source: AP, 01/03/2019
The 2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment
SEJournal looks ahead to key issues in the coming year with this "2019 Journalists’ Guide to Energy & Environment" special report. Stay tuned as we continue to add elements to the report up through and beyond its formal launch Jan. 25 at an annual roundtable, organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists with the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.
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Disruptive, Disappointing, Chaotic: Shutdown Upends Scientific Research
"Kay Behrensmeyer was supposed to be preparing for a three-week expedition to look for evidence of ancient humans in Kenya. Instead, she spent Thursday packing her research permits, her fossil-collecting supplies, and maps she’d spent weeks compiling and annotating by hand into a FedEx box, which she shipped to a junior colleague on the project. Behrensmeyer, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History, wasn’t going anywhere. The federal government was shut down."
Source: Washington Post, 01/02/2019
"Vermont Urged To Act Swiftly To Test Water In Schools"
"Some lawmakers and environmental activists say the state of Vermont needs to act faster to test water in schools for the presence of lead."
Source: AP, 01/02/2019
"Trash, Toilet Odor Build At National Parks Amid Government Shutdown"
"California's Joshua Tree National Park on Wednesday will become the latest casualty of the federal government's partial shutdown, closing campgrounds amid health and safety concerns over near-capacity pit toilets."
Source: CNN, 01/02/2019
"Shutdown: As Funds Run Out, EPA Will Furlough 13,705 Employees"
"Set to run out of carryover funds tonight [Friday], EPA will soon close and send thousands of employees home without pay."
Source: Greenwire, 12/31/2018
New EPA Plan Could Free Coal Plants to Release More Mercury Into the Air
"The Trump administration proposed on Friday major changes to the way the federal government calculates the benefits, in human health and safety, of restricting mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants."
Source: NY Times, 12/31/2018
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