Congress Proposes Scrapping PFAS Measures That Protect Firefighters, Others
"Congress is proposing to reverse measures that protect military service members, firefighters and others from harmful PFAS chemicals."
Source: The New Lede, 08/29/2025
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"Chicago Has The Most Lead Pipes In The Nation. We Mapped Them All."
"As Gina Ramirez buckled her 11-year-old son into her car last month for their daily drive to school, she handed him a plastic water bottle."
Source: Grist/ICN/WBEZ, 08/29/2025
RFK Jr Deputy Jim O’Neill As Acting CDC Director After Monarez Ouster: Sources
"Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Jim O’Neill is expected to serve as acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter."
Source: CNN, 08/29/2025
"An Industry Insider’s Changes at the EPA Could Cost Taxpayers Billions"
"A Trump appointee has proposed rewriting a measure that requires companies to clean up “forever chemicals,” documents show. The new version would shift costs from polluters."
Source: NYTimes, 08/29/2025
"The Battle Over Polluted Water Beneath an Iowa Coal Ash Landfill"
"A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/28/2025
"Methane Leaks At California Oil Facilities Are Also Spewing Toxic Chemicals"
"Large methane leaks at oil and gas facilities across the United States not only unleash massive plumes of the potent greenhouse gas, but are also carry a toxic mix of air pollutants that jeopardize the health of communities nearby, according to new research."
Source: LA Times, 08/27/2025
"US Oil And Gas Air Pollution Is Causing Unequal Health Impacts: Study"
"Air pollutants from U.S. oil and gas operations are causing 91,000 premature deaths and hundreds of thousands of health issues each year — with racial and ethnic minority populations bearing the biggest burden, a new study has found."
Source: The Hill, 08/26/2025
Aging US Railroad Bridges Are Self-Inspected And Findings Are Kept Secret
"The fire burned for about nine hours, billowing smoke and scorching the wooden trestles of a nearly 75-year-old railroad bridge that spans the Marys River in Corvallis, home to Oregon State University."
Source: Howard Center, 08/25/2025
Trump EPA Urged To Speed Monitoring Fenceline Pollution From Steel Plants
"Public health advocates urged the Trump administration to protect residents and workers by sticking to a Biden-era timeline for reducing benzene and chromium emissions at the perimeter of steel and coke plants in Pennsylvania and other states rather than continuing to delay compliance rules."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/25/2025
"“How Can This Happen?” Fight Over Sewage Sludge On Farms Intensifies"
"Ryan Dunham heard his eleven-year-old daughter’s scream from his living room. He bolted up the stairs to the bathroom where she was taking a shower and couldn’t believe his eyes. The water flowing from the faucet was brown, and it smelled like 'decay, rot and death.'"
Source: The New Lede, 08/22/2025
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