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• EPA Takes Action to Protect People from PFAS that Leach from Plastic Containers into Pesticides and Other Products

  EPA News Release: EPA Takes Action to Protect People from PFAS that Leach from Plastic Containers into Pesticides and Other Products

  • Release Date: December 1, 2023

• EPA Proposes Stronger Rules to Protect People from Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemical Exposures

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Stronger Rules to Protect People from Persistent, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic Chemical Exposures

  • Release Date: November 20, 2023

• EPA Administrator Regan Announces Members of First-Ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council

  Marks the first time an EPA advisory committee features exclusively youth aged 16-29, charged with advising EPA on impacts of climate change and environmental harms

  EPA News Release: EPA Administrator Regan Announces Members of First-Ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council

  • Release Date: November 16, 2023

• EPA Celebrates Two Years of Progress Under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  The agency has awarded more than $16 billion for projects across America that are strengthening infrastructure, making communities more resilient to climate change, and protecting human health and the environment

  EPA News Release: EPA Celebrates Two Years of Progress Under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  • Release Date: November 15, 2023

• EPA Proposes Updates to Strengthen the Safer Choice Standard

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Updates to Strengthen the Safer Choice Standard

  • Release Date: November 13, 2023

• EPA Grants Tribal Petition to Protect Salmon from Lethal Chemical

  EPA News Release: EPA Grants Tribal Petition to Protect Salmon from Lethal Chemical

  • Release Date: November 2, 2023

• EPA Rebuilds Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program to Better Assess Human Endocrine Effects of Pesticides

  EPA News Release: EPA Rebuilds Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program to Better Assess Human Endocrine Effects of Pesticides

  • Release Date: October 26, 2023

• EPA Announces Winners of the 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Winners of the 2023 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

  • Release Date: October 23, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Ban on Trichloroethylene to Protect Public from Toxic Chemical Known to Cause Serious Health Risks

  Proposal aligns with President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot by reducing toxic exposures known to cause cancer

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Ban on Trichloroethylene to Protect Public from Toxic Chemical Known to Cause Serious Health Risks

  • Release Date: October 23, 2023

• EPA Seeks Applications for 2024 President’s Environmental Student and Teacher Awards

  EPA News Release: EPA Seeks Applications for 2024 President’s Environmental Student and Teacher Awards

  • Release Date: October 20, 2023

• EPA Finalizes Rule to Require Enhanced PFAS Reporting to the Toxics Release Inventory

  EPA News Release: EPA Finalizes Rule to Require Enhanced PFAS Reporting to the Toxics Release Inventory

  • Release Date: October 20, 2023

• EPA Proposes Rule to Strengthen TSCA Risk Evaluation Process to Protect Workers and Communities

  EPA News Release: EPA Proposes Rule to Strengthen TSCA Risk Evaluation Process to Protect Workers and Communities

  • Release Date: October 19, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Announces Largest Ever Clean-up under EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to Address Milwaukee Area of Concern

  Thanks to President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda, new funding agreement between EPA and partners will invest an estimated $450 million to cleanup of nearly two million cubic yards of contaminated sediments

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Largest Ever Clean-up under EPA’s Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to Address Milwaukee Area of Concern

  • Release Date: October 12, 2023

• Biden-Harris Administration Selects 24 Recipients to Receive Nearly $16 Million in Pollution Prevention Grants to Advance Environmental Justice

  EPA News Release: Biden-Harris Administration Selects 24 Recipients to Receive Nearly $16 Million in Pollution Prevention Grants to Advance Environmental Justice

  • Release Date: October 12, 2023

• EPA Announces Selection of Charter Members to the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

  EPA News Release: EPA Announces Selection of Charter Members to the Science Advisory Board and the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee

  • Release Date: October 10, 2023