In the News

EPN members Bob Kavlock, former EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development and EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, and Stan Meiburg, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting Deputy Administrator, are quoted in this article about the small number of EPA employees who are still working away during the partial government shutdown that closed the agency two weeks ago.

Cynthia Giles, EPN member and former EPA Assistant Administrator, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, is quoted in this article on the continuing government shutdown and its effects on around 800,000 federal workers, major agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency, and national scientific research on climate and the environment.

EPN member and former EPA Associate National Program Director, Sustainable and Healthy Communities Research Program, Betsy Smith, is quoted in this article that takes a comprehensive look at how the Trump administration is redefining the EPA.

EPN Advisor Lisa Feldt, former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator and Associate Deputy Administrator, is quoted in E&E’s article on the trickle-down effects from the partial government shutdown and mounting worries about the long-term outlook.

Bonnie Bellow, EPN member and former EPA Director, Public Affairs Division, Region 2, is quoted in this article on suspended federal cleanups at Superfund sites around the nation and forced cancellations of public hearings due to the partial government shutdown.

EPN Advisor Bob Perciasepe, former EPA Deputy Administrator during the Obama administration, and EPN Board of Directors member and Advisor Stan Meiburg, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting Deputy Administrator, are quoted in this article on the continuing partial government shutdown imperiling some of the Trump administration’s signature energy-related rulemakings.

EPN member and former Assistant Administrator of EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, Cynthia Giles, is quoted in this article about the hundreds of inspections that may have already been canceled and can’t be made up.

EPN member Mustafa Ali, former EPA Environmental Justice Administrator, Environmental Justice Program, is quoted in this article on EPA’s bid to reopen its power plant mercury rule.

Janet McCabe, EPN member and Advisor and former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in this article on the EPA’s proposal to ignore indirect benefits from reducing mercury pollution when it weighs industry compliance costs against public health benefits.

Bob Sussman, EPN member, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to Administrator, is quoted in this article on concerns about the current EPA’s modifications to the way it evaluates and regulates chemicals under The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

EPN member Joe Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in this article on the connection between the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) proposal and Brett Kavanaugh.

EPN Advisor Bob Perciasepe, former EPA Deputy Administrator during the Obama administration, EPN Board of Directors member and Advisor Stan Meiburg, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting Deputy Administrator, and Mark Hague, EPN member and former EPA Regional Administrator and Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 7, are quoted in this article on the effects of the partial government shutdown on climate efforts. This article also ran in Scientific American.

EPN member Bob Kavlock, former EPA Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development and EPA’s Deputy Assistant Administrator for Science, is quoted in this article on the implications of a government shutdown on EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) and how the lead-up to and restart from a shutdown hurt productivity.

EPN member and Advisor Janet McCabe, former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in this article on the EPA targeting an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants. The article also ran in The Denver Post and The News & Observer.

EPN member David Janik, former EPA Supervisory Enforcement Attorney, Region 8, is quoted in this article on declining law enforcement at EPA.

EPN member and Advisor Janet McCabe, former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, is quoted in this article on the EPA’s stance that limiting mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants is not cost-effective and should not be considered “appropriate and necessary.”

EPN members Janet McCabe, EPN Advisor and former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, and Joe Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, are quoted in this article on the EPA’s proposal to roll back Obama-era regulations on mercury pollution from coal plants.

EPN member Gene Reetz, former EPA Wetlands Coordinator in Region 8 (Colorado), is quoted in this article on the Trump administration’s proposal to limit the Clean Water Act and its effects on efforts to protect and manage the West’s most important and imperiled source of water, the Colorado River.

EPN members Janet McCabe, EPN Advisor and former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, and Joe Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, are quoted in this article on a possible EPA proposal to maintain Obama-era restrictions on mercury pollution from power plants while making it harder to toughen mercury emissions standards in the future. This article also ran in The Epoch Times.

Stan Meiburg, EPN Board member and Advisor, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Regions 4 and 6, and former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator, is quoted in this article on the partial government shutdown, as Congress and the White House remained deadlocked over how to fund nine Cabinet departments and several smaller agencies. The article also ran in The Charlotte Observer and The Sacramento Bee.

Mustafa Ali, EPN member and former EPA Environmental Justice Administrator, is quoted in this  article on a revised New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) loosening an Obama-era restriction on how much carbon dioxide new coal power plants would be able to emit and potentially rescinding the requirement for carbon capture technologies.

EPN member Judith Enck, former EPA Region 2 Administrator, is quoted in this article on the declining morale at EPA due to reorganization plans and the entrenchment of Trump’s political appointees inside the Agency.

Stan Meiburg, EPN Board member and Advisor, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Regions 4 and 6, and former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator, is quoted in this article on the EPA’s contingency plan to use carryover funding to sustain most agency operations.

EPN member and Advisor Janet McCabe, former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, and Joe Goffman, EPN member and former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, are quoted in this article on former EPA officials pre-emptively attacking the Trump administration’s plan to revisit Obama-era regulations on power plant mercury emissions.