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EPA Secondary NAAQS Proposal Requires No Additional Pollution Cuts

In an apparent defeat for environmental groups and the agency’s science advisors, EPA is proposing only a minor tightening of its “secondary” air standards for sulfur oxides (SOx), and planning to leave such ecosystem-based limits for other pollutants unchanged, resulting in a rule that would require no additional emissions cuts by industry.

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Groups File TSCA Petition Seeking Ban On Inhance Plastics After Court Loss

Environmental groups are petitioning EPA to “promptly” issue a TSCA rule banning plastic-fluorination work at the center of its legal battle with the manufacturer Inhance Technologies, after an appellate court held that a Trump-era rule limiting “significant new uses” of PFAS does not apply to contamination in the company’s products.

EPA’s Top EJ Advisor Quietly Departs, Raising Doubts On Key Rights Guide

Robin Morris Collins, who joined EPA as the agency’s top environmental justice (EJ) advisor in February 2022, has quietly left the agency, raising fears that her departure could further stall release of a long-awaited and already delayed draft guidance for how to consider cumulative impacts to ensure compliance with civil rights law, sources say.

EFAB Weighs Water Affordability Recommendations Under New EPA Charge

EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) is considering paths for EPA to aid smaller water systems struggling with the affordability impacts of needed capital improvements, as utility groups and environmentalists alike urge the agency to develop comprehensive programs to support infrastructure spending.

Joining Other States, California Advances Constitutional ‘Green’ Amendment

California lawmakers are advancing a proposed constitutional amendment declaring that people living in the state have a “right to clean air and water and a healthy environment,” the latest in a growing number of states where environmentalists and supportive officials are seeking to adopt so-called “Green” amendments to their state constitutions.

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