EPA Has Made Some Changes to PFAS Plan | Coastal Review Online coastalreview.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coastalreview.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Trump administration may be no more, but lawsuits over its handling of the environment continue unabated.
Gerald Generette, left, and Maurice Miller look onto the Cape Fear River in Fayetteville, N.C. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
(CN) Public health and environmental justice advocates filed a petition with the Ninth Circuit Monday challenging the EPA’s failure to ban the use of 1,4-dioxane, a widely used solvent that studies show causes cancer in humans.
The seven groups including the Center for Environmental Health are active in eastern North Carolina, where 1,4 dioxane routinely shows up in drinking water samples taken from various sources in the Cape Fear River Basin.
The news drew a range of responses from environmental campaigners, including praise that the apparent choice means the rejection of California Air Resources Board chair Mary Nichols, who faced pushback from progressives over alleged failings to communities on the front lines of dirty industry. Other green campaigners reacted to the possible nomination with a critical eye, pointing to what they see as Regan’s “mixed record on environmental justice.”
Associated Press, Biden’s choice of Regan “was confirmed Thursday by a person familiar with the selection process who was not authorized [to] the discuss the matter publicly before the official announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity.”
N
C Secretary of the Environment Michael Regan, speaking before opponents of offshore drilling in 2018. Under his leadership, DEQ thwarted attempts by geophysical companies to conduct seismic testing and drilling off the North Carolina coast. (File photo: Lisa Sorg)
Supporters, detractors grade Regan’s performance as NC DEQ secretary
A few days before state lawmakers confirmed Michael Regan as Secretary of the Environment in 2017, he appeared in Mebane, where he spoke to the West End Revitalization Association and other environmental justice advocates. In his speech, Regan tried to assure communities of color that they would now have an ally in the upper reaches of state government, which had long been off-limits to them.