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23 GOP State AGs Petition EPA To Ease Civil Rights Disparate Impact Rules

Florida Attorney General (AG) Ashley Moody (R), joined by 22 other GOP AGs, is petitioning EPA to weaken its longstanding rules requiring states to alleviate disparate impacts as part of compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, a measure that would expand a recent court injunction barring EPA from enforcing the rules in Louisiana.

From Inside PFAS Policy
DOD Braces For Significant Surge In PFAS Cleanups Under EPA Water Rule

The Defense Department (DOD) plans to broaden its current cleanup investigations and treat affected off-base wells under a prioritized process in response to EPA’s landmark final rule regulating six PFAS in drinking water at levels far below the cleanup trigger the department has been using so far at hundreds of bases.

EIP’s Schaeffer To Retire, Driving Leadership Change At Enforcement Group

Eric Schaeffer, a former EPA civil enforcement chief, is poised to retire May 25 as executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the enforcement-focused group he founded in 2002 after leaving the agency due to concerns about the Bush administration’s policies undercutting enforcement of the new source review (NSR) program.

GOP Governors Seek To Pause PM NAAQS Compliance, Ease Implementation

A coalition of 22 Republican governors is urging EPA to pause implementation of its recently strengthened national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for fine particulate matter PM2.5, and to issue improved tools to ease compliance, including better air modeling, de minimis pollution thresholds, wildfire waivers and exemptions for foreign pollution.

Environmentalists Press EPA To Further Tighten Waste Combustor Plan

Environmental and public health groups are pushing EPA to toughen its proposal to cut air emissions from large municipal waste combustors (LMWCs), calling it a “welcome, if overdue, step in the right direction,” but saying that “the Clean Air Act compels EPA to go even further” to cut emissions of PFAS and other harmful pollutants.

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