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RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND

RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND

March 7, 2024 | Climate Change, Accidents, Human Health, nuclear energy

On the 45th Anniversary of the Worst Nuclear Accident in U.S. History Comes a Revealing Film About What Really Happened; RADIOACTIVE: THE WOMEN OF THREE MILE ISLAND Begins streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video March 12! RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile...
EPA to Withdraw Approval of Idaho Arsenic Standard

EPA to Withdraw Approval of Idaho Arsenic Standard

June 24, 2016 | EPA, Advocacy, Arsenic, Clean Water Act, Human Health, ID WQS, Idaho, Lawsuits

EPA’s withdrawing its approval of the Idaho arsenic standard will mean protecting human health and fish In a federal court-signed order on June 7, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) agreed to retract its 2010 approval of Idaho arsenic standard...

Lawsuit Seeks Reduced Arsenic in Idaho Waters

June 29, 2015 | Advocacy, Arsenic, Human Health, ID WQS, Idaho, Lawsuits, Toxics, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

NWEA sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its 2010 approval of Idaho’s water quality standards for arsenic.  The levels approved by EPA are up to 1,000 times more than EPA has determined are safe for people to consume through eating fish...

WA water quality standards for toxics not adequate to protect human health

October 29, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, EPA, Human Health, Petitions, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

WA water quality standards for toxics not adequate to protect human health NWEA filed a petition with EPA today asking that the EPA Administrator make a formal “determination” pursuant to the Clean Water Act that Washington’s water quality standards for toxics are not...

Letter Takes WA Governor to Task Over Advisory Group

September 26, 2013 | Advocacy, Clean Water Act, Human Health, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

In a letter sent to Washington Governor Jay Inslee on September 13, NWEA took the Governor to task for setting up a process to bring yet more political influence to the already fraught “political football” of Washington’s fish consumption-based toxic criteria for the...

NWEA resigns from Washington process to adopt new criteria for toxics

June 12, 2013 | Advocacy, Arsenic, Clean Water Act, Dioxin, Human Health, Mercury, Toxics, WA WQS, Washington, Water Quality, Water Quality Standards

NWEA resigned from the Washington Department of Ecology’s process to adopt new human health criteria for toxics today. NWEA was the last remaining participant not affiliated with pollution sources. In a letter to Ecology Director Maia Bellon, NWEA wrote that “Ecology...
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