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EPN member Chris Zarba, former Director, EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB), was quoted in this article regarding Administrator Regan’s decision to completely remake the composition of the SAB and EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee. In addition, Chris was quoted in similar articles about Regan’s decision that appeared in The New York Times, Common Dreams, Newsmax, International Business Times, and E&E News (where EPN was also cited).

EPN member Mustafa Santiago Ali, former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article describing the bigger role the White House Council on Environmental Quality and other federal agencies will play in confronting environmental justice.

Cliff Villa, EPN member and former EPA attorney, was quoted in this article regarding tribal efforts in New Mexico to overturn a Trump-era water rule that narrowly redefined navigable waters in the Clean Water Act. Cliff was quoted in similar stories appearing in Law360 and The Counter and was interviewed on KRQE.

EPN member Mustafa Santiago Ali, former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article describing efforts by Indigenous people to stop construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline in Minnesota.

EPN member Judith Enck, former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 2, edited this collection of commentary articles discussing the challenges that must be faced in dealing with microplastics.

The testimony of EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article discussing a House Science Committee report and subcommittee hearing about staffing levels at several federal science agencies.

EPN members Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, and Bob Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator and former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, were quoted in this article discussing four regulations EPA recently announced aimed at getting data on and regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

EPN member Stan Meiburg, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding actions the Biden administration is taking on a range of environmental issues.

EPN member Tim Whitehouse, PEER Executive Director and former EPA senior attorney, was quoted in this article about test results revealing the presence of per- and polyfluorolalkyl substances in Permanone 30-30, a mosquito-control pesticide widely used in Maryland and other states.

EPN member Mustafa Santiago Ali, former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was interviewed in this radio segment about cumulative impacts.

EPN member Chris Zarba, former Director, EPA Science Advisory Board, was quoted and EPN was cited in this article discussing Administrator Regan’s review of EPA’s federal advisory committee panels.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article regarding the importance of incorporating cumulative impacts into chemical policy and integrating chemical policy into the various environmental justice tools being developed by the agency.

EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article concerning Georgia Power’s efforts to avoid paying clean-up costs for groundwater contamination from their largest coal ash pond. The article was reprinted in Grist.

EPN member Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in EPA Office of Policy, was quoted in this article discussing the need for EPA and other federal agencies to invest more resources toward determining toxic chemicals’ effects on human health.

EPN members Judith Enck (former Regional Administrator for EPA Region 2), Eric Schaeffer (Executive Director of the Environmental Integrity Project and former Director, EPA Office of Civil Enforcement), Betsy Southerland (former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water), and Tim Whitehouse (Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior attorney at EPA) were quoted in this article discussing how much authority EPA enforcement officials should delegate to state agencies.

EPN member Ellen Gilinsky, former Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article describing the incredibly high number of unprotected waters left vulnerable by the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule.

EPN member John Bachmann, former Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s recent update to the Cross-State Air Pollution rule, the agency’s first rulemaking under President Biden.

Bob Sussman, EPN member, former EPA Deputy Administrator, and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding recently revealed communications between Trump EPA officials and industry and trade associations concerning changes to the TSCA new chemicals program.

EPN member Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, was quoted in this article describing her recently published study reporting 55 new chemicals found in pregnant women and their newborn babies.

EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article discussing recommendations to rebuild the federal scientific workforce made during a House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing. Betsy was also quoted in articles about the hearing that appeared in E&E News, Government Executive, Inside EPA, CQ Roll Call, Federal Times, Federal News Network, and National Journal.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article series on the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act and the continued work needed to combat air pollution.

Gary Timm, EPN member and former Chief, Chemical Testing Branch, EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics , was quoted and EPN was cited in this article discussing recommendations made by the EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee to improve the chemical prioritization process for TSCA evaluations.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article discussing the amount of funding that has been allocated to address environmental justice issues in the Biden administration’s COVID-19 stimulus package.

Bob Sussman, EPN member, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, was quoted in this article discussing ongoing efforts to implement an asbestos ban.