Oct 23, 2019 | issues
Today – on this national Imagine a Day Without Water – 28 environmental and social justice organizations from around Wisconsin sent a joint statement to dozens of state legislators with known PFAS releases in their home districts. The coalition, which includes groups...
Oct 3, 2019 | issues
EPA Region 4 Administrator Mary Walker has rejected CSWAB’s citizen petition for intervention that would prohibit open air burning of PFAS and other hazardous chemicals at Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee – a practice that constitutes an ongoing...
Jul 25, 2019 | issues
by Suzanne Yohannan, Inside Washington Publishers – Local citizen groups are petitioning EPA Region 4 to block the U.S. military from using thermal methods for disposing of explosives and other materials containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at a...
Jul 22, 2019 | issues
In solidarity with effected residents, Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger has petitioned the U.S. EPA to immediately prohibit further open air burning of PFAS-contaminated munitions wastes at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant (Holston) in Tennessee as posing a risk...
Jun 21, 2019 | issues
Today, the Wisconsin Division of Health issued its recommendations for groundwater quality standards for PFOA and PFOS – the culmination of years of work by Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger! The health-based threshold of 20 parts per trillion is for the summed...
Jun 11, 2019 | issues
A new report from the U.S. Army at Badger Army Ammunition Plant describes the extent and volume of mercury-contaminated sediments at Gruber’s Grove Bay on Lake Wisconsin, underscoring the necessity for the Army’s planned removal of polluted sediments in 2020....
