The safety of our country’s groundwater is in danger with EPA’s proposed closure of Oklahoma lab

The safety of our country’s groundwater is in danger with EPA’s proposed closure of Oklahoma lab

The Environmental Protection Agency has long been a favorite target of the budget knife, but a new looming threat is different in magnitude and impact.

EPA deregulation puts schoolchildren at risk in petrochemical zones

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is walking back pollution enforcement, leaving children in heavily industrialized areas like Louisiana’s Cancer Alley more exposed to toxic air and water.Terry L. Jones reports for Floodlight.In short:EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a rollback of federal regulations meant to protect communities near industrial sites, ending the agency’s focus on areas “already highly burdened with pollution impacts…

I live in Flint, Michigan. Shuttering environmental justice at EPA hurts communities like mine.

Eleven years ago Flint, Michigan, fatefully switched its drinking water supply to the Flint River. The consequences are well-documented: significant damage to pipes, a historic outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, system-wide lead contamination. My then-three-year-old son was one of the children who drank that lead-tainted water. Because lead is only detectable in the blood for two months’ time, we, like many other Flint families, will never know …

Gutting the EPA at the expense of human lives

More than 30 million Americans receive their water from systems that violate safety regulations, including those for uranium, arsenic, mercury, lead, and the carcinogenic industrial chemical PFAS.

Bay Area Air District Board Considers Retaliating Against EPA Deregulations

The Bay Area Air District is tasked with regulating stationary sources of air pollution in the nine counties that surround San Francisco Bay: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, southwestern Solano, and southern Sonoma counties. (Bay Area Air District via Bay City News) By Ruth Dusseault Bay City News President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to keep California from having stricter-than-average vehi…

EPA air quality rollbacks could cost 200,000 lives

Trump administration's proposed rollbacks of federal clean air rules could result in 200,000 premature deaths and 10,000 daily asthma attacks by 2050.