• In December 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") released its final assessment analyzing the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on drinking water resources. (modrall.com)
  • 5. See Juan Carlos Rodriguez, EPA Can't Prove Fracking Doesn't Affect Drinking Water , LAW360 (Dec. 13, 2016, 3:36 PM). (modrall.com)
  • Rowland left the EPA in 2016 shortly after a copy of the CARC report was leaked and cited by Monsanto as evidence that the IARC classification was flawed. (theecologist.org)
  • The quality of Ireland's bathing waters remains very high with 93% of identified bathing waters (130 of 140) meeting the minimum EU standards for 'Sufficient' water quality over the four year assessment period 2013-2016. (epa.ie)
  • So the EPA proposed its MTE on November 30, 2016 , opened a 30-day comment period, and announced the results on January 13, 2017-one week before Inauguration Day. (cei.org)
  • In 2016 the EPA drafted a study on "Human Health Recreational Ambient Water Quality Criteria or Swimming Advisories for Microcystins and Cylindrospermopsin" to establish advisory guidelines for recreating in water with the presence of microcystin. (ewg.org)
  • The EPA's 2016 draft assessment recommends a recreational or swimming advisory of 4 µg/L for microcystin. (ewg.org)
  • EPA raised its maximum civil penalties in 2016 , making it more critical than ever that EHS professionals understand how these complex regulatory programs affect their facilities. (lion.com)
  • Dozens of new chemical determinations were completed in June 2017 and nearly 1,000 new chemical determinations were completed from June 2016 to June 2017 ( EPA - Actively updating the number of completed determinations ). (greenseal.org)
  • In May 2016, EPA entered into a Consent Decree with Northwest Environmental Advocates to reconsider EPA's 2010 approval of Idaho's human health criteria for arsenic. (idaho.gov)
  • In September 2016, EPA disapproved Idaho's human health criteria of 10 µg/L arsenic for both consumption of fish only and consumption of fish & water. (idaho.gov)
  • From 2016 to 2017 she sat as the communications lead for the pregnancy and birth defects task force for CDC's Zika virus response. (cdc.gov)
  • Zika during the 2016-2017 outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • And for this study, women were invited to participate if they gave birth between August and December in 2016, and then again the study was repeated in the fall of 2017. (cdc.gov)
  • On March 22, 2018, Ohio EPA issued for public comment its 2018 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report, which includes Ohio's Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) priority list for 2018, as required by Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. (bricker.com)
  • The report identifies the procedures that Ohio EPA used to develop the list and indicates which areas have been selected for TMDL development from 2018-2020. (bricker.com)
  • Ohio EPA will host a webinar on April 25, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. to present information about the list and is accepting comments through May 4, 2018. (bricker.com)
  • 2017. Water Quality Assessment Data for the 2018 solicitation cycle submitted through CEDEN for Alpine Watershed Group Monitoring Program. (ca.gov)
  • 2014. Water Quality Assessment Data for the 2018 solicitation cycle submitted through CEDEN for the EPA CRAM Validation. (ca.gov)
  • 2014. Water Quality Assessment Data for the 2018 solicitation cycle submitted through CEDEN for DFW Aquatic Bioassessment Laboratory Monitoring. (ca.gov)
  • 2013. Water Quality Assessment Data for the 2018 solicitation cycle submitted through CEDEN for Eastern Sierra Ambient Monitoring. (ca.gov)
  • In 2018, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH) received a grant from the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), with support from CDC/ATSDR, to implement a pilot biomonitoring study using the CDC/ATSDR PFAS Exposures Assessment Technical Tools (PEATT) . (cdc.gov)
  • In May 2018, PADOH released an update of the 2017 report. (cdc.gov)
  • The Alliance is asking Pruitt to withdraw the agency's Final Determination and resume a proper Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) process for the standards, in accordance with the EPA and NHTSA's original plan to propose their respective evaluations in mid-2017, and finalize them by April 2018. (cei.org)
  • 3 The EPA has also listed various cyanotoxins in the Fourth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule, 4 which requires all public water systems serving more than 10,000 people, plus a representative sample of smaller systems, to test for microcystin and other cyanotoxins for two consecutive months in one year between 2018 and 2020. (ewg.org)
  • The Consent Decree requires that EPA propose new human health criteria for arsenic by November 15, 2018, and that EPA either approve Idaho's submittal of revised human health criteria for arsenic or promulgate federal criteria by July 15, 2019. (idaho.gov)
  • METHODS: Participants aged 18 years and older (n = 4,689) in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES 2017-2018) had their blood pressure (BP) measured following two protocols: the legacy auscultation protocol [AP] and oscillometric protocol [OP]. The order of protocols was randomly assigned. (cdc.gov)
  • On September 26, 2012, the Center for Regulatory Effectiveness submitted comments on EPA's draft Framework for Human Health Risk Assessment to Inform Decision Making . (thecre.com)
  • The Framework should be revised to reference and discuss EPA's Information Quality Guidelines requirements for risk assessments. (thecre.com)
  • EPA's Risk Assessment Portal should be revised to reference and link to the IQA, CREM and OMB Memorandum discussions in the final Framework. (thecre.com)
  • Rowland oversaw the EPA's cancer assessment for glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto's weed-killing products, and was a key author of a report finding glyphosate was not likely to be carcinogenic. (theecologist.org)
  • Lawyers for the plaintiffs want the federal judge in the case to lift a seal on documents that detail Monsanto's interactions with Rowland regarding the EPA's safety assessment of glyphosate. (theecologist.org)
  • EPA's preliminary assessment prompted companies that make these products to ask for help letting EPA know these products provide benefits, too. (farmprogress.com)
  • In 2007, 2012 and 2017, the EPA's National Lakes Assessment tested for microcystin in freshwater lakes nationwide. (ewg.org)
  • In March 2017, ACMA submitted comments on EPA's proposal. (constructionbusinessowner.com)
  • Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in sending a letter , submitted as a public comment, to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt voicing strong opposition to EPA's proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan (CPP). (senate.gov)
  • While Security spending was somewhat more than his predecessor, Scott Pruitt has received death threats because of his bold actions at EPA. (politifact.com)
  • South Carolina's Congressional delegation had helped set up a meeting with then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt. (wxxinews.org)
  • Chlorpyrifos became California's problem after US EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed a proposed federal ban last March. (constantcontact.com)
  • These EPA reports are only "occasional" and there is no more recent report available as of April 2023 ( https://www.epa.gov/pesticides/pesticides-industry-sales-and-usage-2008-2012-market-estimates ) The decrease from 2000 to 2007 was mainly in the agricultural sector and is probably largely due to wider use of genetically engineered crops that incorporate pesticides and that are not counted in these sales reports. (mofga.org)
  • The PFAS levels in the drinking water are below the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)Health Advisory (HA) for PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate) and PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). (cdc.gov)
  • As of March 31, 2021, the department had identified 698 installations where PFAS were used or potentially released and completed site assessments at 129. (circleofblue.org)
  • After EWG completed its survey, the EPA revised its recreational or swimming advisory in May of 2019, doubling the recommended swimming advisory to 8 µg/L. (ewg.org)
  • The company has received a 4-star rating in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2020. (stwater.co.uk)
  • UPDATE: October 2010] EPA has been notified that there were some broken links in the final report, Graphical Arrays of Chemical-Specific Health Effect Reference Values for Inhalation Exposures , as it was released. (epa.gov)
  • EPA annouced the release of the final report entitled, Graphical Arrays of Chemical-Specific Health Effect Reference Values for Inhalation Exposures . (epa.gov)
  • Most human health issues under the purview of EPA arise from environmental exposures that at the same time can cause effects in wildlife and ecosystems. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The Act requires the EPA to protect vulnerable populations: ""the health of children, pregnant women, the elderly, workers, consumers, the general public, and the environmental from the risk of harmful exposures to chemical substances and mixtures. (greenseal.org)
  • The public health assessment evaluates available environmental data for trichloroethylene (TCE) as well as community concerns to determine whether people were exposed to hazardous substances in the groundwater and whether those exposures are harmful. (cdc.gov)
  • The brightest news in the 2011 EPA report of pesticide usage is that, thanks to stricter regulation under the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996 (FQPA), use of organophosphate pesticides, potent neurotoxins, decreased more than 70 percent in the United States from 2000 to 2012. (mofga.org)
  • A new USGS study of pesticides in U.S. rivers and streams reports that, on average, 17 pesticides were detected at least once at the 74 river and stream sites sampled 12 to 24 times per year during 2013-2017. (usgs.gov)
  • Working Group I Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Annex I, Glossary, pp. 941-954. (skepticalscience.com)
  • In 2017, ATSDR collaborated with the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADOH) to produce an initial review of the state cancer registry data for communities surrounding the site. (cdc.gov)
  • After EPA registers a Superfund site, using the best science, ATSDR is required to perform an assessment about environmental contamination at the site and areas nearby where people who live and work could be exposed. (cdc.gov)
  • Before finalizing the assessment, ATSDR provides the community with an opportunity to review the report and provide comments. (cdc.gov)
  • The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) has released its final public health assessment for the Jacobsville Neighborhood Soil Contamination (JNSC) site in Evansville, Indiana. (cdc.gov)
  • The scientific basis, toxicologic data and risk assessment approach used to derive the IDLH value are summarized to ensure transparency and scientific credibility. (cdc.gov)
  • The committee describes three of the largest challenges EPA is facing to illustrate the need for ORD to identify and apply advanced scientific tools and methods for meeting these complex challenges: (1) holistically addressing interconnected human health and ecological risks, (2) characterizing and addressing environmental justice and cumulative risk, and (3) anticipating and responding to the human health and environmental impacts of climate change. (nationalacademies.org)
  • What was the tone of the preliminary risk assessment released by EPA? (farmprogress.com)
  • The assessment focused heavily on potential risk to certain aquatic species, especially aquatic invertebrates. (farmprogress.com)
  • The EPA began a risk assessment of methylene chloride in 2014. (wxxinews.org)
  • Five months after the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) issued its weak and inadequate draft Risk Assessment for the brain-harming pesticide chlorpyrifos, a group of independent scientists that make up the state's Scientific Review Panel (SRP) ordered DPR back to the drawing board to produce a much stronger draft that properly considers the risk of harm to the developing brain. (constantcontact.com)
  • DPR's highly anticipated but hugely disappointing draft risk assessment for chlorpyrifos was released in August and revised in December 2017, based on public comment and comment from Dow Chemical, the principal manufacturer of chlorpyrifos. (constantcontact.com)
  • The risk assessment then establishes allowable exposure levels based on this endpoint, many thousands of times higher than EPA scientists consider safe for young children and pregnant women. (constantcontact.com)
  • As an example of the inadequacy of their risk assessment, using cholinesterase inhibition as the endpoint allows DPR to declare that children under 2 years of age are at zero risk of harm from food residues - because the risk of cholinesterase inhibition is zero. (constantcontact.com)
  • In November 2017, in a surprise move, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced their decision to list chlorpyrifos as a reproductive toxicant under Proposition 65, a decision based in part on the same studies that the US EPA had relied on in proposing a federal ban - studies which DPR summarily dismissed for their draft risk assessment. (constantcontact.com)
  • At the conclusion of the meeting, the SRP told DPR that their risk assessment would have to be revised with developmental neurotoxicity as the new end point. (constantcontact.com)
  • The Performance & Risk Assessment (P&RA) Community of Practice (CoP) 2017 Annual Technical Exchange Meeting was held on October 18-19, 2017 at the Sandia National Laboratories. (vanderbilt.edu)
  • Since 2006, an Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) for the active pharmaceutical substance shall accompany an application for a marketing authorisation in EU for a medicinal product for human use. (janusinfo.se)
  • Since the benefit/risk assessment for human medicinal products at present does not include environmental effects, an update of the environmental risk assessment is not required for renewals of marketing authorizations. (janusinfo.se)
  • There is thus no requirement for companies to stay informed about the development of their substances from an environmental point of view and consequently to update the environmental risk assessment as new data are published. (janusinfo.se)
  • The PEC values used to calculate risk in the manufacturers' assessment reports are based on the estimated use of the medicinal product to which the assessment report relates, not all medicinal products containing the same active substance. (janusinfo.se)
  • This study uses diesel exhaust concentrations in the railroad work environment in conjunction with the USEPA's Integrated Risk Information System ("IRIS") risk assessment methodology to quantify the cancer risk posed to railroad workers due to occupational inhalation exposure to diesel exhaust. (springer.com)
  • NIOSH Bulletin 68 (2017) states that there is "no known safe level" of exposure to carcinogens and recommends an evaluation of the USEPA's IRIS guidance to evaluate quantitative risk assessment of human exposure to occupational carcinogens. (springer.com)
  • The new ATS system will publish yearly and began by publishing 2017 emissions and risk data for air toxics. (oregon.gov)
  • Considering all available lines of evidence presented in this screening assessment, there is a low risk of harm to the environment from the 11 antimony-containing substances. (canada.ca)
  • June 28, 2017, (Arlington, Va.) - The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) applauds the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its June 22 final rule for Risk Evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). (acmanet.org)
  • Seven human health risk assessments of pharmaceuticals in drinking water in the U.S. and Canada were reviewed. (acsh.org)
  • The next generation of risk assessment multi-year study - highlights of findings, applications to risk assessment, and future directions. (cdc.gov)
  • Background: The Next Generation (NexGen) of Risk Assessment effort is a multiyear collaboration among several organizations evaluating new, potentially more efficient molecular, computational and systems biology approaches to risk assessment. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper summarizes our findings, suggests applications to risk assessment, and identifies strategic research directions. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions: While considerable uncertainties remain, thoughtful application of new knowledge to risk assessment appears reasonable for augmenting major scope assessments, forming the basis for or augmenting limited scope assessments, and for prioritization and screening of very data limited chemicals. (cdc.gov)
  • USEPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment Program: A Research Strategy for 2001-2006. (epa.gov)
  • ACMA and its member companies worked with EPA and the White House to highlight the likely impacts of the proposed rule to manufacturers and the public. (acmanet.org)
  • The EPA no longer needs to identify a regulatory action that is "least burdensome" to industry when carrying out a chemical ban, restriction, or exposure reduction measure. (greenseal.org)
  • In assessing exposure at sites, Tonia and her colleagues rely on existing data, and data collected by the EPA and state environmental programs, or data collected by the principal responsible party (facility) under EPA or state oversight. (cdc.gov)
  • EPA National Lakes Assessment 2012. (ca.gov)
  • EPA refused to analyze substantively the economic impact of the MY 2022-2025 standards, instead making cursory assumptions that downplayed the impact of its mandate on auto sales and employment. (cei.org)
  • The work on this synthesis is supported by the FORMAS Research Council (grant number 2017-01895) as part of the National Research Programme on Climate. (lu.se)
  • But the Obama EPA could not wait for NHTSA because it wanted to tie the Trump administration's hands. (cei.org)
  • The EPA says it will revise Trump-era changes to Clean Water Act permitting that centered on energy infrastructure. (circleofblue.org)
  • EPA Administrator Michael Regan said that the agency will revise Trump-era changes to Clean Water Act permitting that centered on fossil fuel infrastructure. (circleofblue.org)
  • If EPA sticks by its initial review assessment, there could be major changes in how these insecticides are used. (farmprogress.com)
  • Two days after her son's memorial service, Drew's mother Cindy Wynne saw a story on the front page of the The New York Times that said the EPA was no longer pursuing bans on a handful of chemicals it had determined were hazardous or deadly - including methylene chloride. (wxxinews.org)
  • In 2017, 41 U.S. workers died on the job after a single episode of inhaling chemicals and chemical products. (weitzlux.com)
  • The EPA was authorized and required to track chemicals that were being manufactured or processed, to evaluate new chemicals for health and environmental impacts, and to regulate (restrict, ban or in some way control) those chemicals that were identified as hazardous. (greenseal.org)
  • The proposed rule would have required EPA to conduct assessments for uses of all chemicals. (constructionbusinessowner.com)
  • EPA refused to conduct an analysis of consumer acceptance and technology affordability needed for compliance, claiming this was too difficult. (cei.org)
  • The EPA is no longer required to conduct a cost-benefit analysis along with its chemical assessments, and is, in fact, prohibited from factoring in the financial impacts of a regulatory action. (greenseal.org)
  • EPA added a note to the site explaining that we were notified of some broken links in the final report. (epa.gov)
  • After reviewing the comments received, it will submit the final report to U.S. EPA for approval. (bricker.com)
  • The latest EPA water quality report relies on state data collected from as long ago as 2006 , although most states have information that is at least as recent as 2012. (politifact.com)
  • The EPA website has a large gap in its national report series. (politifact.com)
  • Before the one published in 2017, the most recent report dates from 2004 . (politifact.com)
  • Yet, EPA removed its statement to that effect from the final assessment, which has allowed many to report that EPA has backtracked on its prior conclusion. (modrall.com)
  • Overall, the final report indicates that while there are many data gaps and uncertainties, and that improper fracking-related practices may impact drinking water resources, EPA is still unable to directly cite hydraulic fracturing as having widespread impacts, despite the removal of this statement. (modrall.com)
  • This report outlines an assessment of indicative Nitrogen dioxide levels in Dublin using diffusion tubes. (epa.ie)
  • Data as basis for B and T are from the assessment report for Jylamvo. (janusinfo.se)
  • Assessment report for Jylamvo (metotrexat) 26 January 2017, EMA/78284/2017. (janusinfo.se)
  • Tonia works with Superfund and federal sites where the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found contamination. (cdc.gov)
  • Day 1 focuses on introducing the theory, concepts, and tools available for EPA SWMM5 stormwater and wastewater modeling using PCSWMM. (chiwater.com)
  • Ambient air quality trends based on concentration measurements in 2017 of particulate matter, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals, ozone, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and benzene. (epa.ie)
  • A registration dossier shall contain information on the environmental hazard assessment (Regulation 1907/2006, Article 10). (europa.eu)
  • Methylene chloride manufacturers opposed it, and in public comments in the spring of 2017, the Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance urged the agency to delay it, saying the regulation would have a "devastating impact on consumers and small businesses. (wxxinews.org)
  • An EPA spokesperson wrote in an email to NPR "For methylene chloride, EPA is currently evaluating the proposal and regulation of this substance and its uses to determine the appropriate regulation. (wxxinews.org)
  • I, and my friends in the DC environmental community, were heartened by the news: the EPA now had greater authority, strict time lines for progress, and dependable funding sources for implementing effective chemical regulation. (greenseal.org)
  • EPA published reports and guidance documents on Monitoring and Assessment. (epa.ie)
  • Assessment Monitoring System, which is a larger ongoing surveillance system among women with recent live birth. (cdc.gov)
  • Letters from an EPA toxicologist to the EPA official in charge of assessing whether glyphosate, the active ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, causes cancer, reveal accusations of 'staff intimidation' and 'political conniving games with the science' to favour pesticide corporations, writes Carey Gillam. (theecologist.org)
  • Today, we introduce a new feature here at Lion News-the Friday EPA Enforcement Roundup! (lion.com)
  • Severn Trent has achieved the top rating five times since the EA introduced its Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA) rating system back in 2011. (stwater.co.uk)
  • Every day, facilities all across America receive Notices of Violation from US EPA for alleged noncompliance with a wide variety of programs like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, chemical management and reporting regulations, hazardous waste management and disposal standards, and much more. (lion.com)
  • According to US EPA, the company provided hazardous waste training for its personnel and made facility upgrades to properly store their waste. (lion.com)
  • US EPA is demanding more than $14 million dollars from a tank car restoration company to recoup cleanup costs incurred while removing hazardous substances from the company's former property. (lion.com)
  • The final assessment's takeaway is essentially the same: EPA cannot point to any widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources caused by fracking. (modrall.com)
  • An environmental impact assessment (EIA) involves the evaluation of information about pipe raw materials, processes, and product manufacturing to obtain the associated emissions and ecological impacts. (mdpi.com)
  • Life Cycle Impact Assessment model was used to evaluate impacts of PM pollution. (aaqr.org)
  • This study applied an environmental impact assessment approach to evaluate the freshwater ecotoxicity, terrestrial ecotoxicity, marine ecotoxicity and human toxicity caused by metal concentrations in PM 1.1 , PM 1.1-2.1 and PM 2.1-9.0 fractions. (aaqr.org)
  • According to the EPA, the combination of travel and security spending shows McCarthy's trips cost about $731,000, while so far, Pruitt's approach $3 million. (politifact.com)
  • A learning-from-experience approach is applied to establish specific indicators for vulnerability assessment. (iwaponline.com)
  • Vulnerability assessment of water infrastructures using a multiple indicator approach. (iwaponline.com)
  • The charge to EPA under the law is to weigh both risks and benefits during these reviews. (farmprogress.com)
  • EPA can exclude a use of a chemical that has been adequately assessed by another regulatory agency, particularly where the other agency has effectively managed the risks. (constructionbusinessowner.com)
  • EPA officials have said they will look at it before the final assessment is issued, but we're concerned that they didn't include it in information released during their initial assessment. (farmprogress.com)
  • If the final assessment isn't substantially different, there could be serious restrictions on how these products can be used. (farmprogress.com)
  • The additional information and support tools will enable holistic assessments of the Swedish national climate policy for regional climate and terrestrial ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • The strategic plan of Lund University (2017-2026) stresses the need to integrate research and education in education environments where teaching and research qualifications are equally rewarded. (lu.se)
  • A specific area of priority is teacher competency and the quality of teaching and learning ( 2017-2026 Strategic plan for Lund University, PDF 524 kB, new window ). (lu.se)
  • The filing, made late Friday by plaintiff's attorneys, includes what the attorneys represent to be correspondence from a 30-year career EPA scientist accusing top-ranking EPA official Jess Rowland of playing "your political conniving games with the science" to favor pesticide manufacturers such as Monsanto. (theecologist.org)
  • One year in, the EPA has made real progress. (greenseal.org)
  • In the largest study to date, from 2007-2012, the USGS and the EPA examined the presence of pharmaceuticals in source water and treated drinking water across the U.S. (Furlong et al. (acsh.org)
  • 2017). In phase II of the study, samples were analyzed for 118 pharmaceuticals, with 47 pharmaceuticals detected in all source water samples at a median concentration of 14.2 nanograms/liter (ng/L = parts per trillion). (acsh.org)
  • Moreover, it is highly doubtful the EPA could review hundreds of pages of expert comments in the two weeks between the close of the comment period on December 31 and January 13. (cei.org)
  • Although EPA stated that its reason for eliminating the prior statement was that no scientific evidence could be found to quantitatively support it, 5 this explanation obviously should not be interpreted to mean that scientific evidence exists to support the opposite proposition. (modrall.com)
  • Between 2007 and 2012, the EPA found that detections of cyanobacteria increased markedly, as samples from thousands of lakes showed an 8.3 percent rise in cyanobacteria. (ewg.org)
  • In 2012, the EPA found microcystin in 39 percent of all sampled lakes, up 9.5 percent from 2007. (ewg.org)
  • In October 2017, Drew Wynne collapsed inside a walk-in refrigerator at his coffee business in North Charleston, S.C. By the time his business partner found him crumpled on the floor, Wynne was dead. (wxxinews.org)
  • By contrast, the US EPA found that food residues expose children under 2 to levels 14,000% higher than the level at which neurodevelopmental harm occurs. (constantcontact.com)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's AirToxScreen, formerly known as National Air Toxics Assessment, is an evaluation of high priority toxic air pollutants. (oregon.gov)
  • For additional information on ATS and EPA methods for toxic assessment, please visit their AirToxScreen web page . (oregon.gov)
  • 1 The draft assessment, issued in June of 2015, was summarized in our Fall 2015 issue. (modrall.com)
  • The Regional Stream Quality Assessment (RSQA) is studying the relations between stressors (chemical and physical) and stream ecology (fish, algae, and aquatic invertebrates) at small streams in five large regions of the United States. (usgs.gov)
  • Public Health Assessment Summary, 2002" (PDF). (wikipedia.org)
  • Explore the range of services EPA offers to industry and the public. (epa.ie)
  • Petitioners, parents of students attending a public elementary school next door to the proposed construction site and tenants living in apartment buildings surrounding the site, brought these two article 78 proceedings seeking to annul, vacate and set aside DOH's determination, arguing that DOH relied on flawed assessment methodologies and failed adequately to mitigate the environmental dangers associated with the construction. (justia.com)
  • In addition, many NCA4 National Overview chapter teams have hosted public webinars to help inform their chapters and ensure that the assessment is responsive to the needs of stakeholders. (globalchange.gov)
  • Copies of the public health assessment can also be reviewed during regular hours at the Elkhart Public Library - Central, 300 2nd Street, Elkhart, IN 46516. (cdc.gov)
  • The EPA reports in 2011 that pesticide use in the United States decreased 8 percent from 1.2 billion pounds active ingredient in 2000 to 1.1 billion pounds in 2007 ( https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents/market_estimates2007.pdf ), and held steady at 1.1 billion pounds in 2011 and 2012. (mofga.org)
  • C12) if relevant and appropriate in accordance with previously applied read-across approaches (U.S. EPA Fact Sheet, 2008). (europa.eu)
  • The Department of Defense asked the EPA to test private well water near the site. (cdc.gov)
  • PCSWMM will be used throughout the workshop to speed learning and program execution, and to enhance the understanding of the underlying EPA SWMM5 processes. (chiwater.com)
  • To accomplish its mission, EPA must be equipped, through the work of the Office of Research and Development (ORD), to produce and access the highest-quality and most advanced science. (nationalacademies.org)
  • The government's 2010 assessment of coastal waters reported that during the previous five years, water quality held steady, although 22 percent saw worsening conditions with sediments. (politifact.com)
  • 2017. Upper Owens River Water Quality Project Data. (ca.gov)
  • The National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project is a leading source of scientific data and knowledge for development of science-based policies and management strategies to improve and protect our water resources. (usgs.gov)
  • In 1991, Congress established the National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) Project to address where, when, why, and how the Nation's water quality has changed, or is likely to change in the future, in response to human activities and natural factors. (usgs.gov)
  • The EPA and its Mexican counterpart agree that water quality is a top priority for the border region . (circleofblue.org)
  • EPA inspected the facility in 2014, after the State Department of Environmental Quality and the City of Phoenix had issued notices of violation to the company. (lion.com)
  • Petitioners in these two article 78 proceedings challenge a New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) assessment by the New York State Department of Health (DOH) of Jewish Home Lifecare's (JHL) application to construct a new residential facility in New York City. (justia.com)
  • Comparison of EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Test House Data with Predictions of an Indoor Air Quality Model. (epa.gov)