All EPA articles – Page 3
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NewsHarvard and Google team up to take on harmful construction chemicals
New centre is working with Google and others to reduce the use of chemicals linked to health and environmental problems
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OpinionAgency provocateur
The head of the US’s environment agency is on a collision course with his own staff over science
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NewsClaims of spike in US animal testing for new chemicals disputed
Animal rights groups find that Environmental Protection Agency animal tests jumped nine-fold
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ResearchHousehold chemicals contribute as much as vehicles to urban emissions
Air pollution study finds VOC emissions from everyday products have been hugely underestimated
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NewsClean up agreed for radioactive waste from Manhattan Project
Missouri landfill site to be excavated to deal with illegally dumped material created by development of first atomic weapons
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NewsAlarm sounded over three organophosphate pesticides
US fisheries agency concludes that chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion are highly toxic
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OpinionA tricky year
The Trump administration’s approach to conflicts of interest is emblematic of its problem with evidence
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NewsSenate eliminates EPA chemical risk assessment programme
EPA Integrated Risk Information System will dissolve if Senate spending bill is enacted
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NewsEPA bans grantees from providing science advice
US science community and Congress unite to attack policy that prohibits many academic researchers serving on advisory committees
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NewsUproar over EPA’s plan to ban its grantees from science committees
EPA chief says members of its scientific advisory panels get ‘millions of dollars’ in grants from the agency, which poses conflicts of interest
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NewsPublic health scientists speak out against Trump nominee
Dozens of scientists ask the Senate not to endorse Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office
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NewsObama era clean power plan to be binned
US environment agency to end dalliance with country’s first limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants
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OpinionSafety lessons from Hurricane Harvey
The chemical fires triggered by extreme flooding in Houston demonstrate the need to improve risk management
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BusinessChemours reaches truce in pollution investigation
Company will provide authorities with data on perfluorinated compound emissions into drinking water
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NewsUS chemical assessment programme under fire
Environment agency’s integrated risk information system attacked at congressional hearing
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NewsEPA clears chemicals backlog
Mixed reaction to US agency’s announcement that it has ‘eliminated’ the logjam of 600 new chemicals undergoing review
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NewsTrump makes controversial pick for head of chemical safety office
White House choice for Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention – who has written stories mixing science and the Bible – is criticised for industry ties
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NewsUS environment agency delivers on chemical reform
One year after Obama enacted law to modernise chemical regulation the EPA has met its deadlines and issued the required rules
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NewsPerfluorinated chemicals in drinking water of 15 million Americans
Compounds found in 162 water systems from industrial plants, military bases and fire fighter training sites
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NewsTrump budget decried as an 'assault on science'
Dramatic cuts to key US science agencies and research programmes proposed again, but Congress will have the last word