In the News

EPN members Trish Koman, PhD; Betsy Southerland; and Janet McCabe are quoted in this E&E News article on the EPA’s public hearing in Dearborn, MI, on the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles rule.

EPN member and Advisor Janet McCabe, former EPA Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, and Joseph Goffman, former EPA Associate Assistant Administrator for Climate and Senior Counsel in the Office of Air and Radiation, are quoted in this S&P Global article on the Trump Administration revisiting the mercury rule analysis.

EPN member and advisor Janet McCabe is quoted on her concerns about the role of science in the EPA under the current administration in this WBOI NPR story.

Stan Meiburg, EPN Board member and Advisor, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Regions 4 (Atlanta) and 6 (Dallas), and former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator, is interviewed on NPR’s All Things Considered with Dan Boyce about the EPA dissolving the Office of the Science Advisor.

EPN member and advisor Janet McCabe co-wrote an op-ed on the effects of environmental change that are being felt right now in homes, businesses and communities in Indiana and across the country.

EPN members Jeff Alson and Dennis McLerran are quoted in this article on the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule, which would roll back greenhouse gas and fuel economy standards.

EPN members Robert Sussman, former EPA Deputy Administrator and Senior Policy Counsel to Administrator, and Stan Meiburg, EPN Board member and Advisor, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Regions 4 (Atlanta) and 6 (Dallas), and former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator, comment on the restructure of the EPA’s regional offices, which has some current and former agency staff concerned about enforcement, staff levels and leadership, in this Bloomberg Environment piece.

EPN member Jeff Alson, who gave testimony at the EPA’s public hearing in Dearborn, MI, in opposition to the Trump Administration’s Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Rule (SAFE),  is quoted in this article. The article was also rerun in the York Dispatch and Providence Journal.

Jeff Alson, EPN member and former EPA senior advisor who helped draft the national fuel economy standards, was interviewed on Stateside radio about his testimony in Dearborn, MI, against the Trump Administration’s SAFE rule.

EPN member Betsy Southerland is quoted in Climatewire’s article on the consequences of weakening the wastewater standards.

EPN member and former EPA Region 10 Regional Administrator Dennis McLerran wrote this op-ed in The Seattle Times about acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler’s two recent decisions—to freeze fuel-economy standards for cars and dramatically scale back an effort to reduce climate pollution from coal-fired power plants—taking the EPA in the wrong direction.

Stan Meiburg, EPN Board member and Advisor, former EPA Deputy Regional Administrator in Regions 4 (Atlanta) and 6 (Dallas), and former EPA Acting Deputy Administrator, is quoted in this WIRED article on the succession of disasters being triggered in North Carolina by Hurricane Florence, the latest of which is coal ash.

EPN member Brendan Doyle, a former EPA policy analyst and senior policy advisor, wrote this op-ed for The Hill on the Trump administration’s move to gut the Risk Management Program Rule, which requires chemical companies and wastewater treatment plants to be ready for disasters like Hurricane Florence.

EPN member Margo Oge, former director of the EPA’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality, is quoted in this article on the Trump administration’s proposal to reopen negotiations with the possibility of revoking California’s Clear Air Act waiver, threatening the state’s ability to set separate, more-stringent standards.

EPN member Janet McCabe wrote an op-ed in the Indianapolis Business Journal on the Trump administrations “ill-considered” proposal to roll back clean-car standards.

EPN members Chris Zarba, Dan Costa, and Bob Kelly are quoted in this German magazine article on what it is like to work for the EPA under an administration that is hostile to the organization.

EPN member Janet McCabe is quoted in this article on the Trump Administration making it significantly easier to release methane into the atmosphere. This is the third major step this year to roll back federal efforts to fight climate change. Janet is also quoted in similar articles in: E&E News, Newser, HuffPost.

EPN member Janet McCabe, who served as acting air chief during part of the Obama administration, comments on the shift from federal to state implementation plans for four states under the regional haze program.

EPN members Janet McCabe and Joseph Goffman are quoted in this article on the EPA laying the groundwork to limit its ability to require more stringent emissions standards in the future by currently reconsidering mercury pollution limits for power plants.

EPN’s analysis of EPA funding cuts and harmful anti-environmental policies included in the House and Senate FY19 appropriations bills is mentioned in this article on a press conference at the Indiana Statehouse, where speakers urged Congress to oppose any budget cuts to public health and environmental protection programs ahead of the Sept. 30 federal funding deadline.

EPN members Christopher Zarba, Betsy Smith, and Daniel Costa are quoted in this article about the mass exodus from the EPA in the first 18 months of the Trump administration. The agency’s workforce has shrunk by 8 percent, leaving many wondering what important work is falling through the cracks. This article also ran in the Chicago Tribune, and Betsy Smith and Daniel Costa were quoted in a similar article from Common Dreams.

EPN member and former EPA Acting Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Janet McCabe is quoted in this article on the Trump Administration’s proposed replacement of the Clean Power Plan, which could severely weaken air protections. McCabe encourages readers to take advantage of the public comments period on this important issue. Janet is also quoted in similar articles in Eagle Country 99.3 and WXPR.

EPN member Besty Southerland, a 30-year veteran of the EPA before resigning in 2017, is quoted in this article on her concerns that the EPA’s Problem Formulation of the Risk Evaluation for Asbestos eliminates all of the main routes of exposure.

EPN member Betsy Southerland is quoted in this article about the underlying dangers of the Significant New Use Rule for asbestos, which could open the door to new products containing the toxin.