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With Environmental Rollbacks, Communities of Color Continue to Bear Disproportionate Pollution Burden
In many ways, Juneteenth represents how justice in the United States has repeatedly been delayed for black people, and access to a healthy, safe environment is no exception. This history makes the current administration’s repeated, unlawful attempts to weaken our nation’s bedrock environmental laws and undo important progress all the more troubling.
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EPA's Rollback Timeline: A Review of the Fall 2018 Unified Agenda
Last week, the Trump administration released its Fall 2018 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions. The regulatory agenda, released each spring and fall, primarily lays out the actions that administrative agencies plan to issue over the next year.
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EPA's PFAS Gap Compels States to Act
Even with growing public pressure and bipartisan support for PFAS regulation, EPA’s regulatory road to establishing it as a chemical harmful to human health could take years. In the meantime, states will be left to defend and protect their residents from this emerging threat.
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Attorneys General Are Fighting EPA's Pesticide Protection Rollbacks
Pesticides are an integral part of the U.S. agriculture system but science-based policies and oversight of these potentially dangerous chemicals is necessary to reduce the risk of poisoning workers, their families, and consumers
Insights by Brittany Whited
Brittany Whited is the former Program Manager at the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center.