New Year, New EPA: How the Biden Administration Can Catalyze PFAS Action in 2021
Genna Reed, Senior Analyst | January 6, 2021, 1:53 pm EDT
During the past four years, awareness about per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has been heightened, but not because of notable government successes. Instead, communities across the country have worked with scientists, legal teams, nonprofit organizations, members of Congress, and even film production companies to raise awareness about the need for remedies. With their leadership, there has been progress made, with dozens of pieces of PFAS legislation introduced and the passage of PFAS provisions in the 2020 and 2021 defense authorization bills, but there’s much more work to do to help us understand the extent of the PFAS public health threat, limit current PFAS pollution, and require polluters to pay for cleanup of legacy contamination.
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Editor s Note:Â This is the fourth in a series of articles each week that will focus on every race for the Norman City Council elections.
Over the past year, the Norman City Council Ward 5 seat has dealt with significant conflict, including the attempted recall and eventual resignation of Sereta Wilson.
Michael Nash was selected by a committee to replace Wilson on the council and is now seeking reelection. Three other candidates are running against Nash: Billy Davison, Rarchar Tortorello and Lisa Meyer.
The Transcript reached out to each candidate and asked them three questions. Their answers are as follows.
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email 6 Lessons From 2020 Federal Leaders Should Apply in the Months to Come
As the embers of the dumpster fire that was 2020 burn away, important lessons provide light for the way forward in 2021.
Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
I haven’t talked with anyone pining for the good old days of 2020. But as we collectively stagger into 2021, it’s worth remembering six morals from the outgoing year that we’ll want to follow in the months to come.
1. The debate about telework is over. There was a time actually, a year ago when some managers looked skeptically at telework. The EPA, for example, found itself in the middle of a squabble when top officials tried to limit the telework time of their employees, and Social Security had actually decided to end its telework program.
Published December 30, 2020 •
Updated on December 30, 2020 at 7:42 am
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Big cyberattacks can start to seem like routine annoyances.
But anyone tempted to dismiss the recent SolarWinds and FireEye breaches as routine should think again.
At the federal level, we re still dragging our feet on cybersecurity.
Marriott, Equifax, the Office of Personnel Management and the recent U.S. federal agencies the big cyberattacks keep coming. They can start to seem like routine annoyances, like fender benders on the freeway. But anyone tempted to dismiss the recent SolarWinds and FireEye breaches as routine should think again.
This is no fender bender. It is a 75-car, road-closing pileup, and we know where the fault lies. The truth is, at the federal level, we re still dragging our feet on cybersecurity. Even though cybercrime now has a permanent roost atop the US intelligence community s annual Worldwide Threat Assessment report, there s a pro