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Parish helps East Palestine residents amid 'a lot of uncertainty' after toxic train wreck
… Protection Agency continue to investigate. DeWine said in an April 20 update that Ohio EPA officials have so far removed about 12.8 million gallons of liquid wastewater and almost …
Despite new EPA rule to reduce pollution, Catholic activist says fight to protect communities far from over
… try to fight the industry, and fight the politicians." A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling announced April 6 — intended, the EPA said, to "reduce the number of people with elevated cancer risk by 96 percent in communities … incremental lifetime cancer risk in some stretches reaching one in 210 — or 47 times the EPA's acceptable risk. Pope Francis reflected upon such impacts in his encyclical "Laudato Si'," …
Toxic contamination of water sources poses long-term hazards to American communities and environment
… PFAS are linked to cancer, suppressed immune responses and other health concerns. The new EPA rule requires public water system monitoring to strictly limit six PFAS chemicals, instead of the previously unenforceable guidance of just two. The EPA's action signals heightened concerns about drinking water quality and safety. A Feb. 16 TIME …
Detroit Catholics, congressman urge EPA to save lives with soot pollution rules
… annually. Attendees at "Detroit's Dirty Air" were invited to submit public comments to the EPA and urge it to save lives by setting soot pollution standards to the amount "recommended by the EPA's own scientific advisory." Jesuit Fr. Lorn Snow, Gesu pastor and event panelist, said, "I …
Biden administration proposes steps aimed at reducing 'forever chemicals' in drinking water
… this country have suffered far too long from the ever-present threat of PFAS pollution," EPA administrator Michael Regan said in a March 14 statement. "That's why President Biden … launched a whole-of-government approach to aggressively confront these harmful chemicals, and EPA is leading the way forward," Regan said. "EPA's proposal to establish a national standard for PFAS in drinking water is informed by the …
Faith groups, environmental justice advocates urge EPA to go further in new soot pollution rules
… more lives, say faith groups, public health officials and environmental justice advocates. The EPA issued a proposal Jan. 6 to strengthen existing limits on airborne fine particulate matter — … 9 and 10 micrograms per cubic meter. The proposed rules were the first in a decade from the EPA after the Trump administration in 2020 opted to keep in place the 2012 standards. Soot, or PM … impacts of air pollution. It's everybody's problem," Landrigan told EarthBeat. As for the EPA's proposed limits, the pediatrician and epidemiologist said he would bring the limit as low …
'It makes climate change real': How carbon emissions got rebranded as 'pollution'
… than you'd think. Consider the recent Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA at the end of June. The court's conservative majority ruled that the EPA can't implement sweeping regulations on carbon dioxide without the explicit approval of … was required to regulate greenhouse gases from vehicles under the Clean Air Act. But the EPA, under President George W. Bush, refused to do so, saying that the Clean Air Act didn't give …
How St. Louis churches are revealing the disparities in the air we breathe
… matter sensors on the church roofs, manufactured by QuantAQ , are a low-cost version of the EPA's sensors, which cost tens of thousands of dollars. But even the monitors MCU is using cost …
High levels of 'forever chemicals' in children's school uniforms, study finds
… as hazardous substances and to potentially list the chemicals as toxic pollutants. In August, EPA proposed a rule to label two PFAS as hazardous substances. The House bill drew support from …
Activists in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley' hail halt to petrochemical complexes
… showed the area as "one of the most burdened communities in the United States." According to EPA data, Welcome is in the 86th percentile for air pollution-related cancer risk in Louisiana, …