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"Biden Proposes Restoring Chemical Safety Standards Weakened By Trump" [1]

"The Biden administration is proposing to restore chemical safety regulations that were loosened under the Trump administration.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to reimpose certain safety requirements that apply to facilities including agricultural supply distributors, chemical manufacturers and distributors, food and beverage manufacturers and oil refineries.

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Environmental Health [5]
Environmental Justice [6]
Environmental Politics [7]
Infrastructure [8]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [12], 08/22/2022
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"Forever Chemicals No More? PFAS Are Destroyed With New Technique" [13]

"A team of scientists has found a cheap, effective way to destroy so-called forever chemicals, a group of compounds that pose a global threat to human health."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [5]
Technology [14]
Public [10]
International [15]
Source: NYTimes [16], 08/19/2022
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"EPA Finds New Risks With Dicamba Weedkiller" [17]

"The widely used weedkiller dicamba poses a previously unknown risk to honeybees, EPA said in a draft assessment of the pesticide’s potential dangers to wildlife."

Agriculture [18]
Biodiversity [19]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [5]
Science [20]
Wildlife [21]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [22], 08/19/2022
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Ants Can Be Better Than Pesticides For Growing Healthy Crops: Study [23]

"Ants can be more effective than pesticides at helping farmers produce food, according to new research. They are better at killing pests, reducing plant damage and increasing crop yields, according to the first systematic review of ants’ contributions to crop production."

Agriculture [18]
Biodiversity [19]
Chemicals [2]
Natural Resources [24]
Wildlife [21]
Public [10]
International [15]
Source: Guardian [25], 08/18/2022
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"European Food Companies Break Their Plastics Promises" [26]

"Two-thirds of pledges to go greener on plastic fail or are dropped, a DW investigation has found. Here's how European food and drink companies break their own commitments, and how legislation might hold them accountable."

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [27]
Energy & Fuel [4]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Natural Resources [24]
Pollution [28]
Waste [29]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [10]
Europe [31]
Source: DW [32], 08/18/2022
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Why Scientists Have Pumped A Potent Greenhouse Gas Into Public Streams [33]

"A massive ecological study that's happening across the United States, and which is designed to track the impact of long-term changes like a warming climate, is deliberately releasing a highly potent and persistent greenhouse gas in national parks and forests."

Chemicals [2]
Climate Change [34]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: NPR [35], 08/16/2022
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Poland Says Oder Tests So Far Not Showing Poison As Cause Of Fish Die-Off [36]

"Poison cannot be ruled out as the cause of a mass die-off of fish in the Oder river but tests so far have not proven toxic substances were to blame, Polish Environment Minister Anna Moskwa said on Sunday."

Chemicals [2]
Disasters [3]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Pollution [28]
Water & Oceans [30]
Public [10]
Europe [31]
Source: Reuters [38], 08/15/2022
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"National Academies Urge EPA To Study Sunscreen Risks" [39]

"Some of the country’s most powerful scientific advisers want regulators to take a closer look at the risks sunscreen products pose for aquatic environments."

Biodiversity [19]
Chemicals [2]
Environmental Studies [40]
Fish & Fisheries [37]
Science [20]
Water & Oceans [30]
Wildlife [21]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: E&E News [41], 08/10/2022
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"EPA Seeks To Add DINP Plasticizer To Toxics Release Inventory" [42]

"Twenty years after first suggesting it, federal regulators on Monday proposed adding a group of plastic additives common in toys, flooring and fabric coatings to its list of toxic chemicals, concluding that it can "reasonably be anticipated to cause cancer and serious or irreversible chronic health effects in humans.""

Chemicals [2]
Consumer [27]
Environmental Health [5]
Laws & Regulations [9]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: EHN [43], 08/09/2022
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"Communities Near 23 Sterilization Plants Have Increased Cancer Risk: EPA" [44]

"Communities near 23 sterilization facilities across the U.S. have increased risks of cancer due to the facilities’ emissions of a toxic chemical, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week."

Chemicals [2]
Environmental Health [5]
Pollution [28]
Public [10]
National (U.S.) [11]
Source: The Hill [45], 08/05/2022
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