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California air regulators have unveiled a long-awaited proposal to set aggressive zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandates for new passenger vehicles that would ramp up requirements to reach 100 percent ZEV sales by 2035, likely bolstering calls for the Biden administration to set federal emissions standards that achieve such a goal.
EPA Region 10 has told a mining company that reached a novel Superfund settlement late in the Trump administration to voluntarily clean up abandoned mining waste on lands it now controls that it does not have unlimited protection from liability under the Superfund law, rebuffing public statements by the company.
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has released its final toxicological profile for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), preserving without changes the minimal risk levels (MRLs) it proposed in 2018 -- all at levels more conservative than those EPA has used to craft its own exposure limits.
Despite President Joe Biden’s proposed $5 million increase in fiscal year 2022 for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Environment & Natural Resources Division (ENRD) to bolster environmental justice enforcement (EJ) in line with his top priorities, industry sources and environmentalists say it is unclear how ENRD will use the funds.
Harvard researchers are detailing the adverse health impacts from burning biomass and other combustion fuels for power generation, findings that could bolster efforts by some agriculture industry groups who are asking EPA to exempt use of agriculture residues in non-combustion processes, such as bioplastics production, from greenhouse gas permitting.
The Biden administration is facing pressure to resolve a long-running debate over whether and how EPA should regulate animal feeding operations’ (AFOs) emissions of hazardous gases, criteria air pollutants and the greenhouse gas methane, with some states and Congress grappling with either pursuing or blocking AFO air rules.
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Environmentally conscious investors have told chemical giant DuPont in a record vote that it should start reporting its spills of plastic pellets into the environment, pressing the company to join a number of other manufacturers that have agreed to report spill data and highlighting investors’ growing push for corporate environmental responsibility.
State waste officials in the Northeast and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine are holding meetings this week on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) data. And EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) is expected to finalize recommendations for how to improve and accelerate Superfund cleanups.
The Biden administration is moving on several fronts to revamp various water policies, covering drinking water treatment, water recycling and measures to reduce public exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), common contaminants of concern in water supplies.
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