"EPA Bans Consumer Use of Methylene Chloride Paint Stripper"
"A retail ban on the sale of methylene chloride paint strippers takes effect Nov. 23, the EPA announced."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/25/2019
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"Bayer's Monsanto Pleads Guilty To Illegal Hawaii Pesticide Spraying"
"Monsanto pleaded guilty to spraying a banned pesticide on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and agreed to pay $10.2 million in criminal fines and other payments for the spraying and for illegally storing hazardous waste, U.S. prosecutors said."
Source: Reuters, 11/25/2019
"Bayer AG Discussed Plans To Give Not-For-Profit Funding For Influence"
"Bayer AG discussed plans to give the German drugs giant influence within a prestigious American not-for-profit dedicated to media freedoms that would protect and promote the company’s business interests in exchange for generous funding, records obtained by the Guardian show."
Source: Guardian, 11/22/2019
Trump EPA Scales Back Safety Rules Adopted After Deadly Chemical Blast
"The Environmental Protection Agency weakened a rule Thursday governing how companies store dangerous chemicals. The standards were enacted under President Barack Obama in the wake of a 2013 explosion in West, Tex., that killed 15 people, including 12 first responders."
Source: Washington Post, 11/22/2019
"‘Dark Waters’ Faces Inconvenient Truth of Environmental Activism"
"Actor-producer Mark Ruffalo is ... trying to translate film into political activism with Friday’s theatrical release of his Dark Waters, based on lawyer Rob Bilott’s years-long fight to hold DuPont Co. accountable for chemical contamination that a West Virginia farmer believed was killing his cattle."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/21/2019
House Committee Approves Far-Reaching PFAS Package
"The House Energy and Commerce Committee forwarded on Wednesday major legislation that would target a cancer-linked chemical that is leaching into the water supply."
Source: The Hill, 11/21/2019
"House Panel Advances Bill to Curb Pesticides on Wildlife Refuges"
"A bill that would reinstate a regulation banning certain pesticides from wildlife refuges was approved by the House Committee on Natural Resources on Nov. 20."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/21/2019
"Appeals Court Judges Question Mercury Exemptions in EPA Rule"
"A panel of three appellate judges grilled attorneys for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Defense Council in a suit about the exemptions to the agency’s mercury inventory reporting rule."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/21/2019
"Asbestos Ban Gets House Panel’s OK, But Senate Fate Less Clear"
"A House committee approved legislation Nov. 19 to ban asbestos but allow certain chemical manufacturers to transition away from use of the cancer-causing mineral."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 11/20/2019
"Illegal Pot Farms On Public Land Create Environmental Hazard"
"Two months after two men were arrested at an illicit marijuana farm on public land deep in the Northern California wilderness, authorities are assessing the environmental impact and cleanup costs at the site where trees were clear-cut, waterways were diverted, and the ground was littered with open containers of fertilizer and rodenticide."
Source: AP, 11/19/2019
