EPA To Offer Direction On Integrating Climate Data Into Cleanup Decisions

EPA expects this month to release a memo directing staff on how to consider the potential impacts of climate change in risk assessments and cleanup decisions at Superfund sites, responding to a 2019 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report it originally disagreed with under the Trump administration. J. Alfredo Gomez, GAO’s director of natural resources and environment, noted EPA’s reversal during a recent House Energy & Commerce environment subcommittee hearing on the Superfund provisions in H.R. 1512, known as the CLEAN...