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Key Takeaways What: In late January, EPA took the initial step of posting status reports on 25 facilities previously identified as high-risk based on known ethylene oxide (EO) emissions and facility location.  EPA has committed to making community notifications regarding EO risks by May 31, 2021.  On February 22, 2021, the EPA’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) sent a letter to Acting Administrator Jane Nishida urging reconsideration of Administrator Wheeler’s January 4, 2021 decisio...

Key Takeaways What: On January 4, 2021, EPA determined that community-specific warnings regarding ethylene oxide (EO) risks need not be made immediately. EPA has now...

Government, and this report describes dangerous overcrowding, standing room only in places, children packed side by side on the floor with no space between them, unsanitary conditions. and im quoting now from the inspector general, the department of homeland security, im quoting -- "most single adults had not had a shower in cbp custody, despite several being held for as long as a month. at some facilities, border patrol was giving detainees wet wipes to maintain personal hygiene." wet wipes. ag...

Government, and this report describes dangerous overcrowding, standing room only in places, children packed side by side on the floor with no space between them, unsanitary conditions. and im quoting now from the inspector general, the department of homeland security, im quoting -- "most single adults had not had a shower in cbp custody, despite several being held for as long as a month. at some facilities, border patrol was giving detainees wet wipes to maintain personal hygiene." wet wipes. ag...

That. >> well, i mean, lots of them are trying to -- there are certainly some sounding the alarm as the inspector general was trying to do with this. for your action is our final management alert. the purpose of which is to notify you of urgent issues that require immediate attention and action specifically we encourage dhs to take immediate steps to alleviate dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults in the rio grande valley. could they have used any stronger languag...

The inspector general says even in these five facilities they found hundreds of kids being held beyond that legal limit. according to the inspector general, "children at three of the five border patrol facilities we visited had no access to showers. at the facilities children had limited access to a change of clothes. border patrol had few spare clothes and no laundry facilities. two facilities had not provided children access to hot meals until the week we arrived." and, again, this is the agen...

And border patrol official who would not give his or her name did a press call last week with reporters in which that official said, "i personally dont believe these allegations." well, today the actual department of homeland security released their own photographs and their own report, which they labeled a management alert. documenting exactly the same kinds of conditions in these facilities run by the homeland security department that its own officials had been dismissing for the past week as ...

The five border patrol facilities we visited had no access to showers. at the facilities, children had limited access to a change of clothes. border patrol had few spare clothes and no laundry facilities. two facilities had not provided children access to hot meals until the week we arrived." and, again, this is the agencys own report on its own behavior, right? this is the inspector general from the homeland security department. and for the second time in a month they have put out a report like...

Believe these allegations." well, today the actual department of homeland security released their own photographs and their own report, which they labelled a management alert. documenting exactly the same kinds of conditions in these facilities run by the homeland security department that its own officials had been dismissing for the past week as unsubstantiated and sensational allegations. this report from homeland security, from the inspector general, is about conditions in which both adults a...