How RGGI cuts carbon and costs

2 years 3 months ago
This summer, electricity bills across the U.S. are poised to climb higher as a consequence of volatile fossil fuel costs and climate change impacts like extreme heat. Rising natural gas prices, affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are expected to drive up costs in the U.S., including in places like Pennsylvania and Virginia where a […]
Mandy Warner

How RGGI cuts carbon and costs

2 years 3 months ago
This summer, electricity bills across the U.S. are poised to climb higher as a consequence of volatile fossil fuel costs and climate change impacts like extreme heat. Rising natural gas prices, affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are expected to drive up costs in the U.S., including in places like Pennsylvania and Virginia where a […]
Mandy Warner

FDA decisions leave ortho-phthalates in food and our safety in limbo

2 years 3 months ago

Tom Neltner, Senior Director, Safer Chemicals; Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant On May 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced four incongruous actions in response to petitions submitted by EDF and others asking the agency to ban the use of more than two dozen ortho-phthalates (phthalates) in food packaging and processing equipment. We filed the petitions because we […]

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Tom Neltner, Senior Director, Safer Chemicals Initiative

FDA decisions leave ortho-phthalates in food and our safety in limbo

2 years 3 months ago
Tom Neltner, Senior Director, Safer Chemicals; Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant On May 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced four incongruous actions in response to petitions submitted by EDF and others asking the agency to ban the use of more than two dozen ortho-phthalates (phthalates) in food packaging and processing equipment. We filed the petitions because we […]
Tom Neltner

FDA decisions leave ortho-phthalates in food and our safety in limbo

2 years 3 months ago

Tom Neltner, Senior Director, Safer Chemicals; Maricel Maffini, Ph.D., Consultant On May 19, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced four incongruous actions in response to petitions submitted by EDF and others asking the agency to ban the use of more than two dozen ortho-phthalates (phthalates) in food packaging and processing equipment. We filed the petitions because we […]

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Tom Neltner, Senior Director, Safer Chemicals Initiative

Creating data to support communities on the front lines of oil and gas production in the U.S.

2 years 3 months ago

By Jeremy Proville and Kate Roberts This week we published a new study that combines locations of active oil and gas wells with census tract data in a way that helps us better understand the characteristics of the communities living near them. Our findings support what environmental justice groups have been voicing for years: in […]

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