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EPN member Mustafa Santiago Ali, former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was interviewed in this radio segment about cumulative impacts.

EPN member Chris Zarba, former Director, EPA Science Advisory Board, was quoted and EPN was cited in this article discussing Administrator Regan’s review of EPA’s federal advisory committee panels.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article regarding the importance of incorporating cumulative impacts into chemical policy and integrating chemical policy into the various environmental justice tools being developed by the agency.

EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article concerning Georgia Power’s efforts to avoid paying clean-up costs for groundwater contamination from their largest coal ash pond. The article was reprinted in Grist.

EPN member Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in EPA Office of Policy, was quoted in this article discussing the need for EPA and other federal agencies to invest more resources toward determining toxic chemicals’ effects on human health.

EPN members Judith Enck (former Regional Administrator for EPA Region 2), Eric Schaeffer (Executive Director of the Environmental Integrity Project and former Director, EPA Office of Civil Enforcement), Betsy Southerland (former Director, Office of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water), and Tim Whitehouse (Executive Director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a former senior attorney at EPA) were quoted in this article discussing how much authority EPA enforcement officials should delegate to state agencies.

EPN member Ellen Gilinsky, former Associate Deputy Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article describing the incredibly high number of unprotected waters left vulnerable by the Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule.

EPN member John Bachmann, former Associate Director for Science/Policy and New Programs, EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, was quoted in this article regarding EPA’s recent update to the Cross-State Air Pollution rule, the agency’s first rulemaking under President Biden.

Bob Sussman, EPN member, former EPA Deputy Administrator, and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding recently revealed communications between Trump EPA officials and industry and trade associations concerning changes to the TSCA new chemicals program.

EPN member Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, was quoted in this article describing her recently published study reporting 55 new chemicals found in pregnant women and their newborn babies.

EPN member Betsy Southerland, former Director of Science and Technology, EPA Office of Water, was quoted in this article discussing recommendations to rebuild the federal scientific workforce made during a House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing. Betsy was also quoted in articles about the hearing that appeared in E&E News, Government Executive, Inside EPA, CQ Roll Call, Federal Times, Federal News Network, and National Journal.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article series on the 50th anniversary of the Clean Air Act and the continued work needed to combat air pollution.

Gary Timm, EPN member and former Chief, Chemical Testing Branch, EPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics , was quoted and EPN was cited in this article discussing recommendations made by the EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee to improve the chemical prioritization process for TSCA evaluations.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article discussing the amount of funding that has been allocated to address environmental justice issues in the Biden administration’s COVID-19 stimulus package.

Bob Sussman, EPN member, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, was quoted in this article discussing ongoing efforts to implement an asbestos ban.

EPN’s press release regarding the Senate confirmation of EPA Administrator Regan was cited in this article describing industry and environmentalists’ reactions to Regan’s confirmation as well as already growing pressure for him to take action on asbestos. The statement was also quoted in an Electrek article discussing Administrator Regan’s confirmation.

Judith Enck, EPN member and former Regional Administrator for EPA Region 2, was quoted in this article concerning the possible use of plastic-eating microorganisms to degrade plastic waste.

Bernard Goldstein, former chair, EPA Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and former EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, wrote this op-ed discussing the need for Pennsylvania to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

EPN member Stan Meiburg, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Region 4 and Region 6 and Acting EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted and EPN was cited in this article discussing Michael Regan’s confirmation as EPA Administrator. The article also ran in KWQC and WLUC.

The testimony of Janet McCabe, EPN member and nominee for EPA Deputy Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding the need for the Biden administration to take action to earn the trust of EPA staff.

Dave Coursen, EPN member and former attorney, EPA Office of General Counsel, wrote this op-ed discussing how the gross inadequacies of the national air monitoring system disproportionately affect low-income communities and what community science could do to help inform the public.

EPN member Tracey Woodruff, former EPA senior scientist and policy advisor in the Office of Policy, was quoted in this article discussing how the higher cost of chemical-free food disproportionately impacts women and communities of color.

Mustafa Santiago Ali, EPN member and former Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization and EPA Assistant Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, was quoted in this article describing efforts to preserve environmental data during the Obama-Trump transition that evolved into the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.

Bob Sussman, EPN member and former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to the EPA Administrator, was quoted in this article regarding a request made by environmental groups asking EPA to reverse its decision to reject a petition requiring Chemours, a PFAS manufacturer, to provide health and environmental data on 54 PFAS.