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Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, penned this op-ed regarding the urgent need for dedicated funding for lead pipe replacement in the infrastructure bill.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article discussing EPA’s draft Federal Lead Strategy.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article about how Black and brown communities care more about climate change because they more directly experience its impacts.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article discussing the positive impacts that measures like the PFAS roadmap and drinking water standards for two commonly-occurring PFAS will have on public health.

Judith Enck, former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 2, was quoted in this article about the possible liquidation of the St. Croix Limetree Bay refinery as prospective buyers are faced with a lengthy EPA permitting process.

Judith Enck, former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 2, was quoted in this article discussing infrastructure preparedness in the face of climate change.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s finding that the PFAS GenX is toxic to humans and will be subject to a drinking water advisory.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, and Bob Sussman, former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, and former EPA Deputy Administrator, were quoted and EPN was mentioned in this article regarding the recently-released PFAS Roadmap and the TSCA testing strategy and timeline for PFAS.

Judith Enck, President of Beyond Plastics and former Regional Administrator, EPA Region 2, was quoted in this article discussing Beyond Plastics’ recent report that indicates that greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production will exceed that of the coal industry by 2030. Judith was also quoted in numerous other media outlets, including Reuters, E&E News, The Hill, and Rolling Stone.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, co-authored this op-ed emphasizing the continued risk of asbestos exposure, particularly in Black, brown, indigenous, and lower-wealth communities, and the need for a total ban on the chemical.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article discussing how many of the disparities that prevent Black, brown and low-income communities from thriving have their origins in environmental racism.

Linda Birnbaum, former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Science and former EPA scientist, was quoted in this article discussing the prevalence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in our communities.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s recent release of its categories-based testing strategy for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Senior Vice President for Environmental Justice, National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article discussing the benefits that actions like EPA’s PFAS Roadmap will have on communities.

Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article about the release of EPA’s PFAS Roadmap, the agency’s plan of actions across multiple statutes to address per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Betsy was quoted in similar articles appearing in Inside EPA, Bloomberg Law, E&E News, and Chemical Watch.

Bob Sussman, former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator and former EPA Deputy Administrator, penned this op-ed about the adjustments that could be made to the clean energy performance program to address concerns that threaten its removal from the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill.

Bob Sussman, counsel for Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, and former EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article discussing the broadened scope of asbestos review agreed upon in EPA’s recent settlement with ADAO.

Linda Birnbaum, former Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Science and former EPA scientist, and Tim Whitehouse, Executive Director of PEER and former EPA attorney, were quoted in this article regarding the EPA’s determination of more than 120,000 industrial sites that may handle per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. Tim’s comments also appeared in a Green Matters article.

EPN and our recommendations to “Reset the Course of EPA” were cited in this article discussing EPA Administrator Regan’s decision to deny a petition to reconsider a Trump-era new source review accounting policy while also announcing the agency’s intention to revise or withdraw the rule in the future.

Bob Sussman, counsel to Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO), former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, and former EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding a settlement agreement EPA has reached with ADAO that sets a schedule for the agency to conduct risk evaluations for legacy asbestos use. Bob was quoted in a similar article in Chemical & Engineering News.

Jeremy Symons, former Climate Policy Advisor, EPA Office of Air and Radiation, penned this op-ed discussing how a corporate pollution fee should be included in the Build Back Better reconciliation plan to ensure corporations pay their fair share and to make innovation a central part of a climate change strategy.

Bob Sussman, former Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator and former EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article discussing the recent announcement by EPA Assistant Administrator Michal Freedhoff that EPA had authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act to regulate chemicals in articles rather than only discrete chemicals.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, Vice President of Environmental Justice, Climate, and Community Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation; former EPA Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization; and former EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article discussing the positive health, educational, and wealth impacts lead-pipe replacement would have on Black and brown communities and the harm that comes from disinvestment in these communities. This article also appeared on News/Talk 95.3 MNC.

Cheryl Wasserman, former Associate Director for Policy Analysis, EPA Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, was quoted in this article discussing what may be included in a second rulemaking on NEPA that the White House Council on Environmental Quality intends to propose in 2022.