Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to Hold Listening Sessions at Two Defense Communities 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- July 3, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency will hold public meetings in Horsham, Pa., and Fountain, Colo., as part of its effort to craft a management plan for responding to the widespread contamination of drinking water supplies by PFOA and PFOS, the agency announced last week. The meeting in Horsham is scheduled for July 25; the meeting in
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Water Contaminants Pose Greater Risk than Previously Indicated, Study Finds 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- June 22, 2018
Two chemical compounds found in the drinking water supplies at or outside hundreds of active and closed military installations pose a risk to human health at much lower concentrations than previously indicated by federal regulators, according to a study released this week by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). The toxicological study,
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EPA Timeline for Setting Exposure Limits for Water Contaminants Is Uncertain 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, Summit 2018
- June 20, 2018
Washington, D.C. — Last month Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced a series of steps the agency would take to respond to growing concern over the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water supplies across the country. One of the steps Pruitt cited would be an effort to explore the possibility
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Pruitt Pledges to Take ‘Concrete Steps’ to Address PFAS Contamination 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- May 23, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will take multiple steps to respond to growing concern over the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water supplies across the country, including looking at the possibility of setting legally enforceable limits for PFOA and PFOS exposure, Administrator Scott Pruitt said Tuesday. Pruitt spoke at the outset
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Study to Include New Risk Levels for Water Contaminants, Health Agency Says 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- May 22, 2018
An unreleased draft study by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) that senior administration officials moved to block in January will include new recommendations on the maximum levels of exposure to PFOA or PFOS that “a person can eat, drink, or breathe each day without a detectable risk to health,” the agency
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Feds Need to Release Water Contamination Study, Ohio Rep. Says 0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- May 17, 2018
Ohio Rep. Mike Turner (R) is demanding federal officials immediately release a study by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry that could lead to the government adopting a lower threshold for exposure to PFOA and PFOS, chemicals responsible for contaminating drinking water at 126 active and closed installations. “If this study finds, as
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