"National Academies Urge EPA To Study Sunscreen Risks"
"Some of the country’s most powerful scientific advisers want regulators to take a closer look at the risks sunscreen products pose for aquatic environments."
Source: E&E News, 08/10/2022
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"EPA Seeks To Add DINP Plasticizer To Toxics Release Inventory"
"Twenty years after first suggesting it, federal regulators on Monday proposed adding a group of plastic additives common in toys, flooring and fabric coatings to its list of toxic chemicals, concluding that it can "reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer and serious or irreversible chronic health effects in humans.""
Source: EHN, 08/09/2022
"Communities Near 23 Sterilization Plants Have Increased Cancer Risk: EPA"
"Communities near 23 sterilization facilities across the U.S. have increased risks of cancer due to the facilities’ emissions of a toxic chemical, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week."
Source: The Hill, 08/05/2022
History of DDT Ocean Dumping Off L.A. Even Worse Than Expected, EPA Finds
"After an exhaustive historical investigation into the barrels of DDT waste reportedly dumped decades ago near Catalina Island, federal regulators concluded that the toxic pollution in the deep ocean could be far worse — and far more sweeping — than what scientists anticipated."
Source: LA Times, 08/05/2022
"Illegal Airstrips Bringing Toxic Mining to Brazil’s Indigenous Land"
"Hundreds of airstrips have been secretly built on protected lands in Brazil to fuel the illegal mining industry, a Times investigation found, including 61 in this Yanomami Indigenous territory."
Source: NYTimes, 08/03/2022
"Senate Passes Long-Sought Bill To Help Veterans Affected By Burn Pits"
"The Senate voted Tuesday night to pass a long-sought bipartisan legislation to expand health care benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during their military service, sending the bill to President Joe Biden to sign into law. The final vote was 86-11."
Source: CNN, 08/03/2022
Whistleblowers Give New Evidence of EPA Failure to Assess Toxic Chemicals
"A group of whistleblowers has provided evidence that the Environmental Protection Agency has not adequately assessed the health risks posed by several new chemicals on the grounds that they are corrosive."
Source: The Intercept, 08/02/2022
"Pollution: 'Forever Chemicals' In Rainwater Exceed Safe Levels"
"New research shows that rainwater in most locations on Earth contains levels of chemicals that "greatly exceed" safety levels."
Source: BBC News, 08/02/2022
"Chemical Recycling Bills Gain Momentum and Opposition in States"
"States facing a mounting volume of plastic are turning to a recycling method that uses heat and chemicals to break down materials, even as critics say the process could do more harm than good to the environment."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 08/01/2022
"Audit: California Too Slow To Fix Contaminated Water Systems"
"The water that comes out of the tap for more than 900,000 Californians is unsafe to drink and the state isn’t acting fast enough to help clean it up, state auditors said in a report released Tuesday."
Source: AP, 07/27/2022
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