In recent years, federal, state, and international authorities have established various health-based regulatory values and evaluation criteria for a number of specific per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in response to…
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Lessons on State Resilience and Vulnerability to Complex Disasters
Over the past two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, many states have faced hurricanes, floods, extreme heat events, destructive wildfires, as well as other natural disasters and homeland security threats that…
ECOS White Paper: Processes and Considerations for Setting State PFAS Standards, 2021 Update
In recent years, federal, state, and international authorities have established various health-based regulatory values and evaluation criteria for a number of specific per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in response to…
ECOS White Paper: Processes and Considerations for Setting State PFAS Standards
In recent years, federal, state, and international authorities have established various health-based regulatory values and evaluation criteria for a number of specific per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in response to…
ECOS PFAS Workplan
This document details what ECOS is doing to help coordinate state and federal environmental agency leaders on PFAS-related issues.
Case Studies on State-Level Risk Communication of PFAS and HABs
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and harmful algal blooms (HABs) are two priority contaminants that states struggle to communicate the risks of. Most state environmental and health agencies have oversight…
ECOS Summary of FY19 President’s Budget Request for U.S. EPA
On February 12th, 2018 the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the President’s Budget Requestfor Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. OMB requested a U.S. EPA funding level of $6.15…
ECOS Summary of EPA Budget in FY18 House Appropriations Markup
ECOS Summary of FY 2018 President’s Budget Request for U.S. EPA
ECOS Inventory of States’ 2017 “Ready to Go” Water and Wastewater Projects
This list compiles all 50 state and the District of Columbia’s “ready to go” water and wastewater projects in 2017. Projects in ECOS’ inventory range from providing homes with running…
