Chemicals & Pesticides

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was featured on a podcast hosted by Bloomberg Intelligence about the potential of Trump’s EPA to roll back Biden-era rules that designated certain forms of PFAS as hazardous substances under Superfund, and why this will have negative impacts on the U.S.’s water quality for years to come.

Judith Enck and Heather McTeer Toney co-wrote an op-ed in The Hill about the houses burned in the Los Angeles wildfires and the burned plastic that will leave toxic pollution in the drinking water, air, and soil for generations.

Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, was quoted in Politico about anti-abortion groups’ false claims that Mifepristone, an abortion pill, causes harm to the environment. Tracey clarified that pharmaceuticals are in our water supply and enter via industrial farms, not human consumption.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in U.S. Right to Know about the prevalence of nitrate and nitrite contaminated drinking water and how the Trump administration will likely slow down or derail updated assessments for the chemicals.