in August 2022, before signing into law a bill to expand health care benefits for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits during deployments overseas.
President Joe Biden speaks after receiving an operational briefing from officials on the continuing response and recovery efforts at the site of last year's train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.stems from the early days of the response.
“They don’t follow the regulations that they already have in place regarding illegal open burns,” she said. “If you don’t enforce the regulation it’s pointless to have the regulation, and to me it’s even more pointless to update it.
“On the contrary, the proposed regulations provide compelling evidence that EPA has a lot of subject matter expertise on the practice of open burning,” he said via email. “EPA’s impressive expertise on open burning, however, makes it appear even less likely that the open burn in East Palestine, the lack of comprehensive environmental monitoring, and the mislabelling of the burn as a ‘controlled release’ was caused by a lack of knowledge.
One thing that Enck, the former EPA regional administrator and current president of the environmental group Beyond Plastics, wants to see in the wake of the Ohio disaster is a ban on vinyl chloride. She noted that the chemical was designated a carcinogen five decades ago. Would you join us to help keep our stories free for all? Your contribution of as little as $2 will go a long way.