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Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article regarding the need for EPA to ensure funding is allocated for lead-line replacement in low-income communities.

Jeff Alson, former Senior Engineer and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, was quoted in this article discussing how emissions guidelines for vehicle model years 2027 and beyond will potentially have greater impact than the recently set near-term emissions standards.

Margo Oge, chair of the International Council on Clean Transportation and former Director, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, co-authored this op-ed urging the Biden administration to set targets for making heavy-duty trucks and buses emission-free.

Jeremy Symons, EPN consultant and former Climate Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, penned this op-ed discussing the importance of curtailing U.S. liquid natural gas exports in order to meet our climate goals.

Jeff Alson, former Senior Engineer and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, was quoted in this article about the importance of and challenges in setting long-term vehicle emissions standards.

Bob Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator and currently counsel to several North Carolina-based environmental groups petitioning EPA, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s decision to fulfill the petitioners’ request for testing 54 per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances using its existing PFAS testing strategy, not through new testing orders as asked by the petitioners. Bob was quoted in similar articles appearing in The Charlotte Observer and Inside EPA.

Dave Coursen, former attorney, EPA Office of General Counsel, wrote this op-ed outlining the many reasons why EPA needs an annual appropriations bill passed in order to rebuild and restore its role in protecting human health and the environment.

Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics and former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 2, was quoted in this article about a proposed EPA rulemaking that would regulate pyrolysis and gasification, processes used in the chemical recycling of plastics, under the Clean Air Act.

Bob Perciasepe, former EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article discussing the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards, ten years after it was implemented to limit hazardous emissions from power plants.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation, former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization, and former EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice,was quoted in the article about a predominantly Black West Virginia community that lies in the sacrifice zone of a Union Carbide chemical plant.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and former EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, and Jeff Alson, former Senior Engineer and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, were quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article discussing EPA’s stricter greenhouse gas vehicle emissions standards.

Margo Oge, Chair of the International Council on Clean Transportation and former Director, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s new 2023-2026 vehicle fuel emission standards and electric vehicle tax credits that are part of the Build Back Better bill.

Jeff Alson, former Senior Engineer and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, was quoted in this article discussing the recently-announced vehicle emissions standards for model year 2023-2026 automobiles and light-duty vehicles. Jeff was also quoted in related articles appearing in a variety of news outlets including The Washington Post, E&E News, Huffington Post, and Grist.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article about EPA’s recent nationwide monitoring rule that will track levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and lithium in drinking water.

Jeff Alson, former Senior Engineer and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Transportation and Air Quality, penned this op-ed about how Midwesterners could take the lead in the country’s transition to electric vehicles.

Tracey Woodruff, Director of Reproductive Health and Environment Program, University of California, San Francisco, and former Senior Scientist and Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Policy, was quoted in this article discussing EPA’s findings indicating that PFOA, a per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance, is a likely carcinogen.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article discussing the Biden administration’s recently announced Lead Pipe and Paint Action Plan.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and former Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article about changes to EPA’s Office of Civil Rights that have been outlined in the agency’s strategic agenda.

Bill Muno, former Superfund Director, EPA Region 5, was quoted in this article discussing how the polluters pay tax incorporated into the infrastructure law will allow work to resume at many languishing Superfund sites.

Margo Oge, former Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, wrote this op-ed outlining what Toyota can do to regain its footing in the clean transportation market.

Ronnie Levin, Instructor at Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health and former Senior Scientist, EPA Region 1, was quoted in this article about how the $15 billion allocated for lead service line replacement in the new infrastructure law will not be enough to replace every lead service line in the US.

Margo Oge, former Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, was quoted in this article regarding the legislative and regulatory push the Biden administration will need to exert on US automakers in order for the country to reach the administration’s 2030 electric vehicle sales target.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s recent ruling that requires all natural gas processing facilities to report their hazardous pollutant emissions to the Toxics Release Inventory.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article discussing the possible regulatory outcome of EPA’s Science Advisory Board review of draft toxicity analyses performed on two key per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.