EDF Voices: Chemicals

President-elect Biden has the opportunity to repair the damage done by the Trump administration and to ensure that everyone in the country is better protected from hazardous chemicals, especially those whose health is most at risk.

Given the risks of lead exposure, there is a growing need to make lead pipe replacement a national priority, especially among low-income communities.

We need to make sure improvements happen across the entire beauty aisle, especially where the need is greatest.

Once again, the EPA is caving to the chemical industry’s demands, and worker health is being left in the dust.

Here are just a few of the proposed – and existing – regulations that could be jeopardized if the rule goes into effect.

Beyond his inexperience, Honeycutt's faulty logic could have a direct effect on science at the EPA.

These latest actions show that toxic-free consumer products are good for business.

As federal and state agencies failed to monitor air pollution after Hurricane Harvey, we measured and mapped a leaking carcinogen in real time.

The EPA chief is quietly and systematically tearing down policies that protect the health and safety of all Americans.

The push to return America to its toxic past may accelerate after Trump nominated Michael Dourson to run the EPA's chemical safety program.