In 1989 a game-changing EPA-driven asbestos ban—‘Asbestos Ban and Phase Out’—outlawed nearly every use of asbestos in the United States. But that wasn’t the end of America’s asbestos crisis: Today the use of asbestos in the U.S. is still going strong –and is quite legal. Though a relatively limited participant in worldwide asbestos use, U.S. [...]
As if cleaning up the oil in the water hasn’t been a big enough worry for residents along the Gulf Coast, now they can add the chemicals used to clean the water to their worry list. A recent report, prepared by Toxipedia Consulting Services, along with the non-profit, Earth Justice, presents findings from a literature [...]
You’d think that a town that was devastated by asbestos had suffered enough. But news reports of EPA knowledge of, and unresponsiveness to, reports of asbestos contamination on widely distributed wood chips has put Libby back in the news, and in harm’s way, once again. Asbestos from a W.R. Grace mine in Libby has caused [...]
On Tuesday the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) instated new rules to protect drinking water and monitor carbon dioxide emissions in carbon-capture technology. Specifically, the two new rules govern the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide. Carbon capture and sequestration technologies are employed at power facilities and other major emitters to prevent greenhouse gases from reaching [...]
