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Public Comment: EPA Must Consider Climate Change When Reforming Chemical Disaster Rule
June 15, 2021
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scheduled a series of two Virtual Public Listening Sessions June 16th and July 8th for the public to provide input on the EPAs Risk Management Plan (RMP) rule also known as the ‘Chemical Disaster Rule’. Along with members from various other environmental nonprofits, union labor organizations, and community organizations, UCS will be providing comments tomorrow, June 16th, on how the new rule can be improved.
Here’s what I plan to say during the public comment on Wednesday:
Good Afternoon
My name is Casey Kalman and I am a Geospatial Researcher at the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. We work to improve public policy through the application of rigorous and independent science.
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Biden Has Reversed Trump’s War on Science in His First 100 Days Photo: Jiayu Liang/UCS
Jacob Carter, Research scientist | April 30, 2021, 9:02 am EDT This post is a part of a series on
This post originally appeared in Scientific American and was co-authored with Taryn MacKinney, Genna Reed, Gretchen Goldman, Anita Desikan, Casey Kalman, and Andrew Rosenberg.
Hours after he won the 2020 presidential race, then-President-elect Joe Biden delivered his victory speech to a crowd of masked supporters in Wilmington, Del. “What is the will of the people?” he asked. “To marshal the forces of science and the forces of hope in the great battles of our time.”
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Ask a Scientist: Pandemic Maps Tell the Story of Racial Inequity Baltimore County Government
Elliott Negin, senior writer | March 11, 2021, 9:35 am EDT
Much has been written about the glaringly disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic on racial and ethnic minorities. Black, Latino, and Native Americans are at least three times more likely to be hospitalized by COVID-19 and at least two times more likely to die from it than Whites, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On top of our country’s sorry history of discrimination, there are many reasons for this disparity, including the fact that racial and ethnic minorities are overrepresented in essential and frontline occupations where they work within close proximity to others, are paid less than Whites in those jobs, and are less likely to have health benefits, according to December 2020 Urban Institute report. They also are more
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