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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on April 19, 2024, announced its Final Rule designating two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) compounds – perfluorooctanoic acid...

TSCA/FIFRA/TRI - PODCAST -- TSCA New Approach Methodologies — A Conversation With James W. Cox: Lynn L. Bergeson and James W. Cox, M.S. discuss New Approach Methodologies...

EPA Publishes Supplemental NPRM Proposing Updates To Formaldehyde Emission Standards For Composite Wood Products. EPA Denies TSCA Section 21 Petition To Phase Out GHG Pollution. EPA Publishes Receipt And Status Information For Certain New Chemicals For August 2022.

In 1994, under Executive Order 12898, environmental justice was recognized as a federal initiative administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since then, the...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a document titled: EJ Action Plan – Building Up Environmental Justice in EPA’s Land protection and...

The plan highlights projects, tools, and practices to be applied to the Superfund, Brownfields, Emergency Response, Solid Waste Management, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Corrective Action, and Underground Storage Tank programs.

While a focus on environmental justice isn't new, both federal and state governments have struggled to identify concrete action to address the reality of persistent disproportionate impacts from environmental stressors.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect...

The Laredo environmental organization, Commission Shift, recently released a new report...

By Dana Johnson, our guest from WE ACT for Environmental Justice, and Bethany Davis Noll, our Executive Director