Turner to serve on EPA Scientific Advisory Board posts
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has appointed Jay Turner to its Scientific Advisory Board.
Engineering’s Williams to study climate trends in St. Louis and southeastern U.S.
Brent Williams, PhD, of the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis,
has received a nearly $300,000 Early Career grant from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to bring his expertise in
measuring particles in the atmosphere to a national study of the climate
trend in the southeastern United States as well as the St. Louis
area.
Federal courtÂ’s decision an important victory in battle to protect public health
Communities exposed to toxic lead emissions recently won an important victory in federal court through a case filed by the Interdisciplinary Environmental Clinic (IEC) at Washington University in St. Louis. “The court chastised the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for long-neglecting its duty to review the lead standard every five years, and placed the agency on a firm schedule for conducting the review,” says Maxine I. Lipeles, IEC director and professor of law and engineering. “Because the lead standard must be revised to protect public health, and the existing standard is out of date, we believe that the EPA is virtually required to revise the standard downward. That would help protect children in communities across the country where smelters and other facilities emit significant amounts of lead into the air. The decision should also caution the EPA to act more promptly in reviewing the other five national ambient air quality standards * for nitrogen oxides, ozone, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter.”
Former Environmental Protection Agency chiefs Carol Browner and William Reilly to present the first Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative Lecture
Former EPA administrators Carol Browner and William Reilly will deliver the first Sesquicentennial Environmental Initiative Lecture at 3 p.m., Friday, October 3. The lecture, which focuses on politics and the environment, is free and open to the public and will be held in Graham Chapel, located just north of Mallinckrodt Center, 6445 Forsyth Blvd., on the Washington University campus.