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Urge the EPA to protect children’s health by strengthening monitoring requirements for airborne lead pollution. Exposure to lead endangers children, but the EPA does not require monitoring near all industrial sources that emit unsafe amounts of airborne lead.
The nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project used TRI data to identify an 8% increase in benzene emissions from refineries between 2007 and 2008. But the figures may be too low due to problematic underreporting to TRI.
COMMENT NOW on EPA's blog: What can EPA do to help communities understand the environmental conditions at former auto sector sites? And what can EPA do to help communities revitalize those sites?
The EPA has disclosed action plans from 22 electric utility facilities to improve the safety of their coal ash impoundments. The following utilities are still hiding critical information as trade secrets: Alabama Power Company, Duke Energy Corporation, First Energy Generation Corporation, Georgia Power Company, Gulf Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company.
Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, Church and Dwight and Reckitt-Benckiser are in court defending their alleged noncompliance with NY state disclosure law. "It's time for these companies to stop hiding behind a veil of secrecy and give consumers the information they need to protect themselves and their families."
Three public hearings are scheduled to gather comments on EPA's proposed tighter standards for ground-level ozone - a main component of smog. The hearings are:
EPA officials have issued interim policies on how the agency's employees should use social media to interact with members of the public in a memo published on the Internet.
EPA is establishing new monitoring requirements in urban areas to measure NO2 levels around major roads and across the community. Monitors must be located near roadways in cities with at least 500,000 residents. However, evidence suggests the OMB interfered with the monitoring requirements.
Children’s health advocates today applauded the Washington State Department of Ecology’s first-in-the-nation program that will require manufacturers of toys and other children’s products to report whether their products contain certain harmful chemicals.
A controversial natural gas drilling technique is suspected of contaminating drinking water across the country, but more research cannot be done because the drilling companies won't disclose what toxic chemicals they are pumping into the ground. Congress is now considering legislation that would force drillers to disclose what chemicals they are using, but it needs our support against Big Oil and Gas.
Urge the EPA to protect children’s health by strengthening monitoring requirements for airborne lead pollution. Exposure to lead endangers children, but the EPA does not require monitoring near all industrial sources that emit unsafe amounts of airborne lead.
COMMENT NOW on EPA's blog: What can EPA do to help communities understand the environmental conditions at former auto sector sites? And what can EPA do to help communities revitalize those sites?
Three public hearings are scheduled to gather comments on EPA's proposed tighter standards for ground-level ozone - a main component of smog. The hearings are:
One year after the enormous disaster at Tennessee's Kingston Power Plant, EPA continues to allow six power companies to hide vital information from the public on the safety of toxic coal ash impoundments. The companies refusing to disclose are Alabama Power Company, Duke Energy Corporation, First Energy Generation Corporation, Georgia Power Company, Gulf Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company.
The coal industry is not disclosing the full extent of its lobbying expenses on federal disclosure forms, instead exploiting a legal loophole by failing to report "AstroTurf" campaigns. Big Coal's actions highlight the need for greater lobbying disclosure.
It took a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to get it, but EPA released a more complete list of locations and other data on toxic coal ash dump sites nationwide.