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"Toxics: FDA Rules For Baby Food Guided By Feasibility, Not Safety"

"When parents first serve solid foods to their babies, they often turn to infant rice cereal. The iron-fortified mix is nutritious and relatively easy to feed babies unaccustomed to spoons or strong flavors. But the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in this favored first food as it does in other products, like bottled water and apple juice — despite the fact that, as a neurotoxin, arsenic can have an outsize impact on babies, whose brains are still developing."

Source: E&E News, 04/09/2021

"‘This Is Environmental Racism’"

"How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement".

Source: Washington Post, 04/08/2021

Groups Petition EPA To Remove Ethane, Methane From Emissions Exempt List

"Hundreds of environmental groups on Tuesday submitted a petition calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take action to curtail ethane and methane emissions responsible for smog."

Source: The Hill, 04/07/2021

"Left-Wing Party Opposed To Big Mining Project Wins Greenland Election"

"A left-wing party that opposes a large rare earth mining project has become the biggest in parliament after securing more than a third of votes in a snap election."

Source: Reuters, 04/07/2021

Louisville’s Polluting Chemical Plant Emits Two Potent Greenhouse Gases

"The Chemours Louisville Works emits a chemical feedstock and a separate gas byproduct that do more damage to the climate than 750,000 passenger vehicles, and far more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s main industrial greenhouse gas inventory indicates."

Source: Inside Climate News, 04/06/2021

Greens Attack Australian Plan To Relax Rules For Chemicals, Pesticides

"Environment and health groups have fiercely criticised proposals to relax the regulation of chemicals and pesticides in Australia, saying they are “totally at odds” with public health and safety expectations."

Source: Guardian, 04/05/2021

"Study: US Pesticide Use Falls But Harms Pollinators More"

"American farmers are using smaller amounts of better targeted pesticides, but these are harming pollinators, aquatic insects and some plants far more than decades ago, a new study finds."

Source: AP, 04/02/2021

"Biden Takes Moonshot Approach to Replacing Lead Water Pipes"

"The Biden administration wants to take a huge swing at the problem of lead water pipes, proposing to replace 100% of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines."

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 04/01/2021

Lead Pipes: Biden Visit Highlights Pittsburgh Water Contamination Woes

"President Biden's scheduled appearance in Pittsburgh tomorrow to unveil a multitrillion-dollar infrastructure plan could have a direct bearing on the city's ongoing efforts to combat contaminated drinking water."

Source: E&E News, 03/31/2021

"Industry Eyeing EPA’s Hustle to Control ‘Forever Chemicals’"

"Industry attorneys say they’re bracing for a wave of corporate liability and litigation as the Biden administration works swiftly to fulfill a campaign promise to control “forever chemicals.”

The Environmental Protection Agency this month announced it’s working on three water-related regulations for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. It sent a fourth chemical data-collection proposal to the Office of Management and Budget, or OMB, for approval.

Source: Bloomberg Environment, 03/29/2021

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