EPA Puts Good Science and Children’s Health on the Chopping Block
Shuttering the Office of Research and Development would set back years of progress and research essential to protecting Americans’ health By: Mayra Reiter, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Earthjustice Action Even during the longest government shutdown in history, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin continued recklessly dismantling the Office of Research and Development…
Read MoreGroups of the Health Equity and Environment Action League Submit Comments to EPA Over Repeal of the GHG Reporting Program
WASHINGTON, DC—This week, organizations part of the Health Equity and Environment Action League (HEAL) submitted comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency opposing the repeal of the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program. The GHG Reporting Program provides critical data on facility and source-level emissions that public health officials, advocates, and communities rely upon to assess health risks and inform mitigation measures. …
Read MoreSave EPA’s Office of Research and Development
Congress has a chance to save ORD during the appropriations process By Mayra Reiter, Senior Research and Policy Analyst, Earthjustice Action In yet another attack on science and public health by the Trump administration, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in July that EPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD) is…
Read MoreLee Zeldin is Now the Head of the EPA: Here’s How That Spells Disaster for Public Health and Communities
By: Ranjani Prabhakar, Healthy Communities Legislative Director Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 It should be common sense that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believes in protecting the public from environmental harm, right? Sadly, that’s not the case with Lee Zeldin, President Trump’s recently confirmed Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,…
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