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EPA Alumni Association: An Open Letter To EPA Administrator & Congress - We’re Not Done Yet!

PA Environment Daily

These reductions would put EPA back to its resources in 1980, before the implementation of critical new or expanded programs such as Superfund, key controls on hazardous waste, and important programs under the Clean Air Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.

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The Urgent Need for Stricter PFAS Regulations to Safeguard Water Quality and Public Health

Vermont Law

The administration also took steps under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by issuing a Significant New Use Rule (SNUR) to prevent the resumed manufacture or processing of hundreds of inactive PFAS without a rigorous, upfront EPA safety review.

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Who Benefits from Dismantling EPA Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

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Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake

Union of Concerned Scientists

Toxic Substances Control Act updates There’s a lot going on in the near term with the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) too. This is a major federal law that governs if a chemical will be regulated, limited, or even banned.

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Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay

Circle of Blue

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said.

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Protecting Public Health Is Complicated. But Science Can Help, and the Time Is Now.

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act), as a result, EPA programs are often implemented narrowly, not holistically.

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When Democrats and Republicans united to repair the Earth

Environment, Law, and History

Melosi, Carolyn Merchant, Roderick Nash, Adam Rome, and Paul Sutter, among many others—Coodley and Sarasohn offer here an exhaustive play-by-play account of the legislative battles between 1964 and 1976 that led to the passage of some of the most important environmental laws in the United States.