Tim Whitehouse is the executive director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
Every day there is a new headline about discoveries of dangerous amounts of toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or
for human consumption. While this was an important regulatory step, EPA does not appear to have grasped the implications of its own action. Removing containment strategy. In fact, it seems that EPA is spending more time impeding -laden containers in favor of available alternative barrier technologies that do not create
contamination from biosolids. Unfortunately, EPA has ignored their pleas for assistance. Now some of these victimized farmers are suing EPA for its failure to prevent set standards for in pesticides and is discouraging states from testing. The agency has even gone so far as to publish faulty test results in attempt to conceal that scientists had confirmed widespread presence of
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