Availability of the Draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Inorganic Arsenic. Federal Register EPA Notice. Summary: “The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing a 60-day public comment period associated with release of the draft Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Toxicological Review of Inorganic Arsenic. The draft document was prepared by the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA) within EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD). EPA is releasing this draft IRIS assessment for public comment in advance of a Science Advisory Board (SAB) managed peer review. SAB will convene a public meeting to discuss the draft assessment with the public during Step 4 of the IRIS Process. The external peer reviewers will consider public comments submitted to the EPA docket in response to this notice and any others provided at the public meeting when reviewing this assessment. EPA will consider all comments submitted to the docket when revising the document post-peer review.” Comments due by December 15th, 2023.
Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process. Federal Register OSHA Comment Extension. Summary: “On August 30, 2023, OSHA published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) titled “Worker Walkaround Representative Designation Process.” The period for submitting public comments is being extended by two weeks to allow stakeholders additional time to comment.” New comment deadline: November 13th, 2023.
Opinion: The next House speaker should listen to the Republicans who ousted McCarthy. CNN.com article. Pull quote: “The country badly needs to get its fiscal house in order before there is an economic reckoning. The chaotic nature of the federal budget process isn’t the only reason the national debt now exceeds $33 trillion. There has been a balanced federal budget only a handful of times since 1969, most recently in 2001.”
Israeli Invasion Plans Target Gaza City and Hamas Leadership. NYTimes.com article (free). Pull quote: “The operation risks locking Israel into months of bloody urban combat, both above ground and in a warren of tunnels — a fraught offensive that Israel has long avoided because it involves fighting in a narrow and tightly packed sliver of land populated by more than 2 million people. Israeli officials have warned that Hamas could kill Israeli hostages, use Palestinian noncombatants as human shields, and have strewn the territory with booby traps.”
The Return of the Tunnel Bomb: A Medieval Tactic on the Modern Battlefield. MWI.WestPoint.edu article. Pull quote: “In Iraq, the US military was surprised by a succession of new tactics and weapons—roadside IEDs in 2003, explosively formed projectiles as early as 2004, improvised rocket-assisted munitions in 2007, and the use of commercial drones in 2016. We should do everything we can to avoid tunnel bombs becoming the next battlefield surprise we encounter. To begin, soldiers must start looking down.” Misses the fact that many tunnels already exist in urban areas that could be used for this technique.
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