EPN Submits Comments on Draft Risk Evaluation of the Chemical Methylene Chloride
EPN Writes Letter on Serious Health Risks of Methylene Chloride
EPN Comments on Proposed List of Next 20 High-Priority Chemicals for Risk Evaluation
EPN Writes Letter of Support for Ban on Asbestos
EPN Sends Letter to EPA on Risk Evaluation of Toxic Chemical 1-BP
EPN Comments on Draft Toxicity Assessment of the Chemical 1-Bromopropane (1-BP)
EPN Submits Additional Comments on the TSCA Risk Evaluations of Chemicals HBCD and 1,4-Dioxane
EPN Comments on Critical Policy Issues Affecting the TSCA Risk Evaluations of Chemicals HBCD and 1,4-Dioxane
EPN Submits Third Set of Comments on Draft Risk Evaluation of PV29, Urging Further Testing and a Revision of the Review Process
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Toxic Substances
EPA’s Coal Plant Proposal Puts D.C. at Risk
EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article about EPA’s proposed regulation for coal plant wastewater ignoring the pleas of drinking water utilities to prevent a cancer-causing chemical from being released into the nation’s waterways.
White House, CDC Feuding Over Study Of Toxic Chemicals In Drinking Water
Betsy Southerland, EPN member and former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article about a dispute within the Trump administration over a multimillion-dollar federal study on toxic chemicals in drinking water. This article also ran in the Times Telegram and The Intelligencer.
Just One Week After Trump Rolled Back Safety Measures, Chemical Plant Explosion Rocks Texas Town
Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization, and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article about a chemical plant explosion in Texas following the Trump administration’s decision to weaken the Chemical Disaster Rule. This article also ran in Common Dreams.
EPA Urged To Expand Methylene Chloride Limits As Narrow Ban Adopted
The Environmental Protection Network (EPN) was mentioned in this article about its letter to EPA urging it to exercise its authority to immediately implement restrictions if there is a pressing health concern, specifically to create emergency limits on methylene chloride, commonly used in paint strippers.