Chemical Lobby Tightens Its Grip on EPA, Undermining Asbestos Ban and Putting Lives at Risk
EPN Comments on Proposed Registration of Pesticides Containing Vadescana dsRNA
The Environmental Protection Network Condemns Rollback of Key Protections Against PFAS
EPN Comments on New Active Ingredient Cyclobutrifluram
EPN Comments on Notice: Petition Seeking Rulemaking to Modify Labeling Requirements for Pesticides and Devices
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EPN Comments on the Draft Guidance Document for “Evaluating the Efficacy of Pre-Saturated/Impregnated Antimicrobial Towelettes for Disinfection Claims”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
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Chemicals & Pesticides
EPA won’t reconsider Biden asbestos ban
Michelle Roos, executive director of the Environmental Protection Network, spoke with E&E News about the possibility of EPA reinstating a Biden-era asbestos ban.
Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back.
Bob Sussman, former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, spoke with ProPublica about EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s lack of enforcement of forever chemicals despite prior rhetoric expressing prioritizing these regulations.
Sources Question Significance Of Pending TSCA Methylene Chloride Ruling
Bob Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in Inside EPA. Former EPA official Bob Sussman is cautioning against expectations that the 5th Circuit may take significant action on consolidated challenges to the Biden-era TSCA rule banning most uses of the common solvent methylene chloride, following oral argument where one judge strongly questioned EPA but another spoke rarely.
Is Trump Reversing a Biden-era Asbestos Ban? Here’s What We Know
Michelle Roos was quoted in Live Now Fox. The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is planning to reconsider a Biden-era rule banning the last type of asbestos still used in U.S. industries—specifically chrysotile asbestos, which is linked to mesothelioma and other deadly diseases.