EPN Comments on Establishment of Plan to Track the Adoption of Bilingual Labeling on End Use Pesticide Labels
EPN Comments on the Draft Guidance Document for “Evaluating the Efficacy of Pre-Saturated/Impregnated Antimicrobial Towelettes for Disinfection Claims”
EPN Comments on the Proposed Registration of Pesticide Products Containing the New Active Ingredient, Veratrine
EPN Comments on the Draft TSCA Risk Evaluation for Diisononyl Phthalate
The Environmental Protection Network Praises EPA for Cancellation of the Pesticide Dacthal
EPN Comments on EPA’s Interim PFAS Destruction and Disposal Guidance
EPN Comments on EPA’S Proposed Registration of New Active Ingredient, Glycerol Formate, in Ecolab’s Product, “DuoGuard RTU”
Environmental Protection Network Applauds Emergency Suspension of the Pesticide Dacthal
EPN Comments on New Registration Applications for the Pesticide Dicamba
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Chemicals & Pesticides
For Trump, Chemicals in Straws Are a Crisis. In Water, Maybe Less So.
Matt Tejada, former Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights, and Linda Birnbaum, former Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP), were quoted in The New York Times. An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap water nationwide hasn’t gotten the same attention.
Sludge Contaminated 10,000 Acres of Farmland. What Should Be Done?
Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in the New York Times. For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.”
EPA Limits Remain on ‘Forever Chemicals’ – For Now. See What’s In Your Drinking Water.
Betsy Southerland, former Director, Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in USA Today. “More than 37 million Americans drink water from systems that exceed limits on toxic “forever chemicals,” according to USA TODAY’s analysis of the first update of Environmental Protection Agency data under the Trump administration.”
Dissolving EPA’s Research Arm May Jeopardize Toxic Chemical Protections
Betsy Southerland, former Director, Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, and Jennifer Orme-Zavaleta, former Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Research and Development, were quoted in The New Lede about chemical protection regulations that would likely be rolled back and critical epidemiological studies on emerging chemicals that would be stopped if ORD is eliminated.