• Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the following reviewer has been selected as the winner of the Toxics 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award. (mdpi.com)
  • Today's action reverses a Trump-era rule that sought to undermine the EPA's Mercury and Air-Toxics Standards (MATS) by withdrawing previous agency findings that limiting toxic emissions from power plants is "appropriate. (earthjustice.org)
  • The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today issued its final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) , which will require about 40% of all coal-fired power plants in the U.S. to deploy pollution control technologies to curb emissions of mercury and other air pollutants such as arsenic and cyanide within three years. (powermag.com)
  • Surprise: I got my wish, in the form of new Environmental Protection Agency standards on mercury and air toxics for power plants. (berthoudrecorder.com)
  • As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares to release new mercury and air toxics standards, some people may be wondering about the history and timeline for these standards. (grist.org)
  • Why regulate mercury and air toxics? (grist.org)
  • Last week, at the same time that the Supreme Court was considering states' good neighbor obligations to protect the health of residents in downwind states by controlling pollution from sources within their own states, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was hearing challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics rule. (edf.org)
  • The Mercury and Air Toxics rule is a major public health rule that is the result of a decades long effort to ensure power plants clean up the mercury, acid gases, and toxic metals that are released into our environment from burning coal. (edf.org)
  • The Center for American Progress offers its official submission to the EPA on rules to limit mercury, arsenic, and other toxics from power plants for the first time. (americanprogress.org)
  • The first toxics release inventory (TRI) reports for these five per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) will include releases for 2022 and are due July 1, 2023, the agency says. (acs.org)
  • Toxics;11(8)2023 Aug 08. (bvsalud.org)
  • Beyond Toxics sent a letter to Lane Regional Air Protection Agency and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on May 3, 2021, in response to two class-action lawsuits filed against JH Baxter, urging the agencies to take residents' concerns about JH Baxter seriously. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2014 and 2016, Beyond Toxics gathered plant samples from 18 U.S. and Canadian stores. (wikipedia.org)
  • Compiles a national emissions inventory of outdoor air toxics sources. (oregon.gov)
  • The groups' report, which recommends several steps to reduce toxic pollution of our waterways, is based on data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). (environmentamerica.org)
  • Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) reports are required under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) . (wa.gov)
  • Investigate public knowledge and use of information from the U.S. Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), the most internationally prominent and well‐regarded environmental information program, providing industrial facility chemical release and transfer data since 1989. (repec.org)
  • In addition to limiting the pollution that led to acid rain and ozone, Congress tightened enforcement and monitoring requirements, and completely overhauled regulation of toxic air pollution to speed up and strengthen EPA's previously slow regulation efforts on toxics. (edf.org)
  • Data from EPA's National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment ( NATA ) are used to develop the air toxics indicators for the Tracking Network. (cdc.gov)
  • The Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH) is urging caution when evaluating recent test results for toxins in packaging from a recent report released by the group, stating that lab results may not be accurate, exposing companies to unnecessary financial risk. (packagingdigest.com)
  • Sixteen percent of laboratory test results for lead and cadmium in packaging samples were 'unacceptable' according to a report just released by the Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH). (packagingdigest.com)
  • The Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse (TPCH) was established by the Coalition of Northeastern Governors (CONEG) in 1992 to assist states that adopted the CONEG-developed Model Toxics in Packaging Legislation. (coneg.org)
  • The new ATS system will publish yearly and began by publishing 2017 emissions and risk data for air toxics. (oregon.gov)
  • With a goal of reducing toxics use while keeping Massachusetts businesses competitive, several researchers are exploring safer alternatives, thanks to grants from the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) at UMass Lowell. (uml.edu)
  • The standards set work practices, instead of numerical limits, to limit emissions of organic air toxics, including dioxin/furan, from existing and new coal- and oil-fired power plants. (powermag.com)
  • Beyond Toxics aims to reform pesticide use through community involvement and legislation. (wikipedia.org)
  • The EPA uses four steps to process toxics assessments across the US. (oregon.gov)
  • Toxics Targeting specialize in providing Environmental Database Reports to engineers and environmental consultants who perform Phase I Environmental Site Assessments required for secured mortgage loan originations or foreclosures. (toxicstargeting.com)
  • Beyond Toxics also advocates for new legislation that provides equal protection of marginalized and underrepresented community members. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beyond Toxics has worked with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and legislation to directly combat these inequities. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the driving force to reduce toxics in packaging originated with the Northeastern states, the model legislation became a nationally and internationally recognized standard. (coneg.org)
  • The first phase is "technology‑based," where EPA develops standards for controlling the emissions of air toxics from sources in an industry group or "source category" (for example, industrial boilers). (iowadnr.gov)
  • The Environmental Protection Agency took a critical step toward cleaner air on March 16, 2011, by proposing its air toxics standards for coal-fired power plants . (americanprogress.org)
  • One of Beyond Toxics' campaigns has involved neonicotinoid pesticides, believed to be contributing to the decline in bee populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Beyond Toxics is a nonprofit environmental justice organization based in Eugene, Oregon. (wikipedia.org)
  • The law inspired Mary O'Brien, Anita Johnson, Michael Carrigan and Steve Johnson to "form an organization dedicated to toxics use reduction and environmental justice," leading to the founding of Beyond Toxics in 2000. (wikipedia.org)
  • A wide array of students from many departments at UMass Lowell help TURI with it's mission to reduce the use of toxics and make the world a safer healthier place to work and live. (turi.org)
  • Although neither of these bills have passed, Beyond Toxics continues to advocate for stricter laws around pesticides, specifically those that harm bees. (wikipedia.org)
  • We've heard much conjecture by polluting industries and their allies in Congress that adoption of the new toxics rules will harm our economic growth and slow job creation. (americanprogress.org)
  • To reduce pesticide use, Beyond Toxics has hosted workshops in Jackson County and Lane County, teaching low-cost methods that protect soil, pollinators, and the environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Dedicated to ending environmental threats to vulnerable communities, Beyond Toxics supports environmental quality, protection, and justice across the state. (wikipedia.org)
  • Methods: We obtained lifetime air toxics cancer risk data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's National Air Toxic Assessment and sociodemographic data from the American Community Survey. (cdc.gov)
  • Federal and state air quality programs currently use regulations and control technologies that are targeted to specific industrial processes to reduce air toxics from industrial businesses. (multco.us)
  • Nebraska DEQ site (Click on "Focus on Air on the left-side menu, scroll down until you see the link for "Air Toxics Program," then click on link for "Jump to Air Toxics Notebook. (iowadnr.gov)
  • Can't make it in person, but want to fight back against toxics? (vpirg.org)
  • Many of the most respected consultants in the nation use Toxics Targeting's top-quality Environmental Data Reports. (toxicstargeting.com)
  • Beyond Toxics has also endorsed bills like SB 853 and HB 3058 that attempt to prohibit aerial spraying over state forests, as well as pesticides like chlorpyrifos and neonicotinoids. (wikipedia.org)
  • The purpose of the tool is for state, local and tribal air agencies to identify which pollutants, emission sources and places they may wish to study further to better understand any risks to public health from air toxics. (oregon.gov)
  • The ATS assessment gives DEQ a better understanding of the air toxics concerns throughout Oregon, which does not currently have a state-based tool that models Oregon's air toxics. (oregon.gov)
  • ATS helps DEQ target areas of the state for developing more detailed information and air toxics reduction strategies. (oregon.gov)
  • In 1996, the city of Eugene, Oregon created the Eugene Toxics Right-to-Know program. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Toxics Cleanup Program works to remedy these situations, which range from cleaning up contamination from leaking underground storage tanks, to large, complex projects requiring engineered solutions. (jeffersoncountypublichealth.org)
  • Toxics Targeting's Phase I Environmental Database Reports help lenders and their Phase I consultants conduct due diligence for mortgage originations, loan work-outs, foreclosures, portfolio acquisitions and securitizations. (toxicstargeting.com)
  • Toxics Targeting's reports are emailed in a PDF format that allows individual site profiles to be retrieved by clicking each map identification number. (toxicstargeting.com)
  • Toxics Targeting provides reports to homebuyers, real estate attorneys, banks, credit unions and other lenders, appraisers, home inspectors, real estate brokers and other real estate professionals. (toxicstargeting.com)
  • Toxics Targeting's Phase I Environmental Database Reports are provided @ $150.00 each. (toxicstargeting.com)
  • Did Congress intend to give power plants a sweetheart deal on air toxics when they passed the Clean Air Act Amendments in 1990? (edf.org)
  • The Mobile Sources Air Toxics Protocol (MSAT Protocol) provides guidance to local land use jurisdictions on assessing and disclosing potential cancer risk and PM2.5 concentrations from major roadways and railways. (airquality.org)
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  • 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)
  • Typically, MACT affects only a "major source" of air toxics (a source with a potential to emit at least 10 tons per year of any one HAP or 25 tons per year of any combination of HAPs). (iowadnr.gov)
  • show the geographic distribution of air toxics. (cdc.gov)
  • Determines potential public health risks from breathing air toxics. (oregon.gov)
  • The OHA and the Multnomah County Health Department are looking into what these air toxics can do to people's health and informing the public. (multco.us)
  • In court last week, while counsel for the utility industry tried to suggest that Congress has intended an entirely separate, distinct, and less stringent toxics plan just for the utility industry, the court seemed skeptical, asking if this was just a political deal to give industry more time. (edf.org)
  • Contact the Toxics in Packaging Clearinghouse - coordinating body for many states, providing a convenient, single point of contact for industry. (ct.gov)
  • Beyond Toxics successfully campaigned for a ban on neonicotinoids in Eugene, Oregon. (wikipedia.org)
  • A toxics, plastic problem. (who.int)
  • We investigated the spatial distribution of carcinogenic air toxics in the St. Louis metropolitan area and tested the hypothesis that neighborhood isolation and sociodemographic characteristics are associated with exposure to carcinogenic air toxics. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions: These findings provide strong evidence of unequal distribution of carcinogenic air toxics in the St. Louis metropolitan area. (cdc.gov)
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  • See you Friday, and thank you for fighting back for a toxics free Vermont! (vpirg.org)
  • The Toxics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to acknowledge all reviewers who have generously dedicated their time and efforts toward reviewing manuscripts submitted to Toxics . (mdpi.com)