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"EPA Tightens Reporting Requirements For PFAS Releases, Closing Loophole [1]

"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a rule that will tighten the reporting requirements for facilities that use or release certain types of toxic “forever chemicals.”

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Journalism & Media [4]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: The Hill [8], 10/23/2023
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FDA Proposes Ban On Hair Relaxers With Formaldehyde Due To Cancer Concerns [9]

"The Food and Drug Administration is proposing a ban on using the chemical formaldehyde as an ingredient in hair relaxers, citing its link to cancer and other long-term adverse health effects."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [3]
Environmental Justice [10]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NPR [12], 10/23/2023
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October 24, 2023

Webinar: Assessing the Risk of PFAS From Land Applied Biosolids Vs. Other Common Exposure Pathways [13]

The Mid-Atlantic Biosolids Association (MABA) and the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association invite journalists to a webinar at Noon ET examining the benefits of land-applied biosolids vs. the consequences of ineffectual land application bans in the name of reducing PFAS exposure.

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EPA Says Lead Emissions From Small Piston-Engine Aircraft Pose Health Danger [21]

"The U.S Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday issued a final determination declaring that emissions from aircraft that use leaded fuel pose a danger to public health, following years of study."

Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Health [3]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Transportation [22]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Reuters [23], 10/19/2023
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Enviros Warn Of Intent To Sue Over Snail Species Near Nev. Lithium Mine [24]

"In an ongoing legal battle with the Biden administration over a Nevada lithium mine, environmentalists are poised to return to court with a new approach accusing U.S. wildlife officials of dragging their feet on a year-old petition seeking endangered species status for a tiny snail that lives nearby."

Biodiversity [25]
Chemicals [2]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Natural Resources [27]
Wildlife [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Mountain West (CO ID MT NV UT WY) [29]
Source: AP [30], 10/17/2023
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Texas Quietly Sets Weak Cancer Risk Standard For Industrial Air Pollution [31]

"The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has quietly proposed maintaining a target cancer-risk level for air pollution permits that scientists and public health officials consider inadequate to protect public health, especially for communities like those east of Houston that are exposed simultaneously to many sources of industrial emissions."

Air [32]
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Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [33]
Source: Inside Climate News [34], 10/17/2023
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Watchdog Finds La. Honeywell Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of CFCs [35]

"U.S. chemical manufacturer Honeywell International released chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)—climate super-pollutants and ozone depleting substances that are banned except for limited uses under an international environmental agreement—according to a report released Oct. 10 by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a non-profit environmental organization based in Washington, D.C."

Air [32]
Chemicals [2]
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Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Inside Climate News [36], 10/17/2023
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"Biden Announces Huge Hydrogen Investment. How Much Will It Help The Climate?" [37]

"The Energy Department awarded up to $7 billion in grants for clean hydrogen “hubs,” but environmentalists warn some of the money could prop up fossil fuels and fail to cut emissions."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [38]
Energy & Fuel [17]
Environmental Politics [26]
Laws & Regulations [11]
Technology [39]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Inside Climate News [40], 10/16/2023
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Refrigerants Are A Nightmare For The Climate. Alternatives Must Spread Fast [41]

"When Jennifer Byrne, owner and technician at Comfy Heating and Cooling, gets a call to come and fix a relatively new air conditioning system, one of the first questions she asks is if the house has just been remodeled."

Air [32]
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Consumer [42]
Pollution [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
International [43]
Source: AP [44], 10/16/2023
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"800,000 Tons Of Radioactive Waste From Pennsylvania Drilling Goes 'Missing'" [45]

"Waste from the oil and gas industry contains toxic and radioactive substances. Disposal of this waste is supposed to be carefully tracked, but 800,000 tons of oil and gas waste from Pennsylvania oil and gas wells is unaccounted for, according to a recent study."

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Nuclear Power & Radiation [46]
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Mid-Atlantic (DC DE MD PA VA WV) [48]
Source: EHN [49], 10/13/2023
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