Tougher Air Pollution Regulations Are Being Proposed by the EPA.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has recommended, for the first time in a decade, stricter limits on fine soot in the air, which is linked to numerous health problems. Changes to PM 2.5 standards would lower the current limit from 12 micrograms per cubic meter to a r...

EU designates certain nuclear and natural gas as green

EPA disagrees with TVA's plan to build a gas plant to replace a coal plant. In contrast, it is more difficult for natural gas to remain a bridging fuel in the US.

The Tennessee Valley Authority was recently instructed by the Environmental Protection Agency to reevaluate its first ch...

To clean approximately 1,300 hazardous sites, the US reinstated Superfund taxes

Two long-expired excise levies on 42 chemicals and products derived from them are being reinstated by the US government. More than 1300 polluting sites in the US will be decontaminated with the help of the anticipated $14.4 billion (£12 billion) in revenue.

The "Superfund&quo...

The EPA has released 2020 CDR data

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on May 12, 2022, that information collected during the 2020 Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) cycle would be made public to increase public awareness of chemicals manufactured in communities and to allow citizens and stakeholders access to and us...

The planned asbestos ban by the US EPA is being opposed by the industry

Imports of chrysotile asbestos, which is only used in the Chlor-alkali sector, would be prohibited in the United States under a groundbreaking regulation proposed by the US Environmental Protection Agency on April 5. The regulation would also make it illegal to import asbestos-containing items su...

EPA Streamlining Process for Bringing Biofuels to the Market

On 21st January, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has launched a new initiative for streamlining the review of biofuels and chemicals that can play a major role in replacing the higher greenhouse gas-emitting fossil fuels. 

The EPA has announced the new initiative ...

WHO and EPA Partner for Protecting Public Health

The World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for five years for the continued collaboration of the two organizations on a wide range of health and environment issues, particularly air and water pollution, children’s healt...

Harmful Impacts of Ethylene Oxide

Jennifer Jinot spent 26 years in the US Environmental Protection Agency and assessed the impacts of toxic chemicals on human beings.

She analyzed the effects of exposure to secondhand smoke and waited in frustration for four years before the final risk assessment was published in 1993. ...

Avantor fined 600,000 Dollars for Violating Chemical Restrictions

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has announced that the alleged violations of reporting chemical requirements by the Avantor Performance Materials LLC have been resolved.

Earlier this week EPA said that the company was forced to pay 600,000 dollars in a civ...

US Drinking Water Will be Tested for 29 PFAS

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States has issued a regulation on 20th December that US utilities have to monitor their supply of drinking water for the presence of twenty-nine per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The regulation is applicable from 2023 to 2025.

Three harmed in Texas petrochemical plant impact

Three specialists were harmed in an early morning blast on Wednesday that started a burst at a Texas petrochemical plant, the most recent in a progression of compound plant mishaps in the district. An underlying blast at a TPC Group plant in Port Neches, Texas, was trailed by auxiliary impacts, b...

Mike Pence believe that the U.S govt. would continue to follow the actual science behind Climate Change

VP Mike Pence gave watchers whiplash Sunday when he guaranteed the Trump organization would "dependably pursue the science" and after that wouldnt recognize that man-made environmental change is a danger to the United States, as researchers have over and over cautioned. In the wake of citing Dire...

Recent Attack by Trump on the Federal Climate Science could potentially backfire

As planet-warming gases achieve levels not recently found in mankinds history, the Trump organizations offered to confine how government researchers direct the following National Climate Assessment dangers deferring earnest activity required to check discharges and environmental change. Be that a...

Trump Administration to Strike Climate Science Harder

The United States President Donald Trump is responsible for pulling the US from the Paris climate agreement, has pushed back environmental guidelines, has looked past calamitous forecasts on the impacts of change in climate, and has converted the powerful term of “global warming” into just a punch l...