Leigh Boerner
Environment Policy and Green Chemical Reporter at C&EN
Enviro policy and green chem reporter @cenmag who 💚s the data. Chem PhD. Past sci ed @ WC/NYT. She/her. Opinions belong to a multicellular organism on Planet 9
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1 month ago |
cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner
Meetings of three major United Nations chemical conventions wrapped last week, with an agreement for new global restrictions on three persistent organic pollutants (POPs)-chlorpyrifos, medium-chain chlorinated paraffins, and long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids. But some members of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Basel, Rotterdam, and Stockholm conventions are unhappy with what they call a long list of exemptions to the bans.
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1 month ago |
cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner
The US Environmental Protection Agency on May 2 announced its anticipated reorganization plan, which includes a new Office of Applied Science and Environmental Solutions (OASES). The agency did not give details on what this office will focus on, nor did it mention the existing EPA research body, the Office of Research and Development (ORD), in the announcement.
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2 months ago |
cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner
International chemicals negotiators began a biennial meeting today in Geneva, Switzerland, to decide how the global community should deal with certain toxic chemicals, including pesticides and some used in plastics.
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2 months ago |
cen.acs.org | Brianna Barbu |Leigh Boerner
The US National Science Foundation announced the winners of its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award earlier this month. In a typical year, the NSF awards around 2,000 students a fellowship, which provides 3 years' worth of financial support for their doctoral or master's studies. But this April, the NSF granted only 1,000 awards.
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2 months ago |
cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner
In the latest potential shake-up to the federal workforce, the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a proposed rule (PDF) April 18 that would reclassify around 50,000 federal employees and allow agencies to more easily fire those involved in policy creation who do not obey presidential directives. "If these government workers refuse to advance the policy interests of the President, or are engaging in corrupt behavior, they should no longer have a job," President Donald J.
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science nerds! look at this shit! https://t.co/ZOTSUXrDV4
you know that thing about how if there's a question in the headline, the answer is usually no? My latest for @cenmag https://t.co/i5t7oxJIcv
How much solvent waste do US academic labs make? And what happens to it? Most if it is burned, but I found out that nailing down the exact numbers was not really possible. A data story from me in @cenmag https://t.co/KVkCwM1x10
