EPN Comments on EPA’s Proposal to Update Regulations on Water Quality Certification
EPN Comments on EPA’s Proposed Drinking Water Regulation for Perchlorate
EPN Comments on Revised “Appropriate and Necessary” Finding for MATS
EPN Testimony: Proposed Revised Supplemental Cost Finding for the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS)
EPN Responds to Proposal for New “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) Definition
EPN Testimony: Proposal for New “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) Definition
EPN Comments on Proposed Repeal of the Rule Defining the Waters of the United States
Two Programs that Protect People’s Health and the Environment on the U.S.-Mexico Border Area Are Eliminated
EPA’s International Program: Catalyzing Global Partnerships to Protect U.S. Health and the Environment
EPN IN THE NEWS RELATED TO Water
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.
The EPA drafted a safety recommendation for cleaning firefighting chemicals from water. The military isn’t using it.
EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article about PFAS chemicals and an internal military memo that indicates an unwillingness to adhere to EPA’s recommended limits for contamination.
Uncertainty Reigns Over Major EPA Regulations, Enforcement Agreements
Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article about legal challenges to major environmental regulations, creating uncertainty as the Trump Administration withdraws from the Paris climate agreement and rewrites the rules of the Clean Water Act.