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Groundhog Day: EPA Postpones Decision on Dispersants & What You Can Do About It NOW
Ever feel like you’ve heard the exact same thing before? In April of 2015, EPA promised to make a decision on rules regarding dispersant use in oil spill response in the fall of 2016. Now EPA has decided to postpone the final rules until August 2018 at the earliest. Sounds like the same old, same…
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Introducing Toxic Trespass – A new teaching tool
Mobile, Alabama. For the past three months, an alliance of oil-spill survivors, academics, trained first responders, fence-line and frontline community residents, and community organizers in Houston, Mobile, and Coden, Alabama, have worked with ALERT, myself and Emily L. Harris, to develop a concept and a course. Toxic Trespass is the first in a series of…
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What’s next on the EPA’s rulemaking process
First of all, congratulations! The EPA received 487 comments on its proposed rulemaking on use of dispersants and other products during oil spill response. ALERT, a handful of other groups, and over 460 ordinary citizens––many empowered by ALERT’s webinars, talking points, and social media—filed a total of 472 comments. Each commenter can opt to join…
Read MoreWhat’s Next for U.S. EPA Rulemaking on Dispersant Use?
Canada’s move to legalize toxic dispersants may thwart efforts to ban them in the United States, because the two countries work together to “harmonize” environmental (and other) policies. ALERT has requested that U.S. EPA take proactive international action to ban toxic dispersants in oil spill response. Help ALERT leverage our comments into final rules by…
Read MoreTulane Summit On Environmental Law And Policy Panel on EPA Rulemaking
Contact: Lisa Marie Jacobs 970-903-6818 [email protected] February 23, 2015 MEDIA ADVISORY – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tulane Summit On Environmental Law And Policy Adds Panel on EPA Rulemaking Panel title: Shaping EPA policy on oil spill response Use of dispersants, chemical and biological agents, and other substances to be discussed On Friday, February…
Read MoreMEDIA ADVISORY: Science and Policy WEBINAR for Media
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JANUARY 12, 2015 Contact: Lisa Marie Jacobs 970-903-6818 [email protected] MEDIA ADVISORY: Science and Policy WEBINAR for Media Understanding the science of dispersants and oil-solvents and upcoming EPA revisions to national oil spill contingency plans On January 14, 2015 at 1:00 pm Eastern Time, the ALERT Project and Government Accountability Project will co-host…
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Guest Blog: Fighting the Madness of Okie Frackland
It’s a gorgeous fall day. We live in the country on a sweet, partially wooded 10-acres with a lovely home outside of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Or, it was. As I write this blog post, a new rig is setting up. We had planned to retire here and live out our days in the peace…
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And then, we saw it…
Stillwater, OK. It was July. We were driving in unfamiliar territory in central Oklahoma, navigating through dusty, hot ranching communities and along miles of barbwire fence that separated us from distant livestock. The GPS spouted off a series of commands that led to narrower roads with horses, cattle, and homes closer to the fence lines.…
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