There is a need for regulators and industry to enhance risk assessment methods and exposure monitoring approaches to be more inclusive of environmental justice community involvement and more representative of EJ community exposures.

Cumulative risk assessment models are critical for understanding the unique interaction between chemical exposures and non-chemical stressors  faced by environmental justice communities.

Enhanced environmental monitoring with personal and portable sensors, especially when deployed using community partnerships, can capture chemical exposures with sufficient resolution to characterize exposures down to the neighborhood level.

Use of internet-linked sensors will also require thoughtful advances in management of big data to inform meaningful and time-sensitive decisions.

PNECs were previously published for 125 antibiotics; however, it is recognized that this list does not encompass all manufactured antibiotics.

A default PNEC value is necessary in order to provide a target for antibiotics with limited data.

Weight of Evidence (WoE) is needed to utilize different standard and non-standard data types.

A WoE framework is presented to organize the comparisons and make use of all available data.

Overall persistence (P_ov) supports holistic assessments that account for emission patterns and physicochemical properties of a substance.

Combined WoE and P_ov frameworks will support improved persistence assessments.

On-campus zero food waste (ZFW) initiatives including composting can significantly contribute to the overall campus sustainability.

Financial analyses based on cost benefit analysis (CBA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) do not address all critical aspects of assessing the feasibility of on-campus composting systems.

The analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is an effective methodology for integrating non economic factors into the assessment of composting systems.

Sensitivity and risk analyses can address and rank the impacts of projected changes to the economic parameters of the assessment and model the variability in its operational parameters.

The highest concentrations of Cu and Zn were detected in starter pig feeds and feces.

Trace elements in pig feces were 2-6 times those in the feeds.

Limits for feed trace elements were derived by enrichment chain of feed-feces-compost.

Copper was a priority pollutant in pig feed, followed by Cd.

We examine categories of land utilization for agriculture in Turkey.

Carbon emissions are mitigated through land use for arable and permanent plantation.

There is environmental benefit from the use of land for meadows purpose.

Using farmland for fruits and beverages, and vineyard mitigates carbon emission.

The criteria adopted in China's SEA studies are largely accordant with international cases.

Procedural and contextual effectiveness attract the most attention both in China and international contexts.

The distribution of substantive and normative effectiveness evaluation criteria is very similar.

The significant differences lie in the criteria of assessment methods and communication.

The SCP Alternatives Analysis framework remains at the forefront of safer chemistry by embracing the hazard assessments at the core of AAs and extending those to examine both toxicological— and exposure—related hazard traits affecting human and ecological health, as well as the environment.

Transparency is an attribute of a high-quality AA, either under the SCP Alternative Analysis framework or any other AA frameworks.

The challenges in AAs identified in our analysis represent opportunities for the Community of Practice (CoP) to provide guidance, agree on best practices, or research to resolve some of the challenges.

The assessment of ecological toxicity, exposure, economics, uncertainty, and consideration of a broader scope of alternatives represent growth areas for AA; furthermore, decision-making would benefit from greater transparency.

We provided an analytical framework for improving selection of focal species for higher-tier risk assessment of pesticides in rice-cultivations and any other crop.

Expert-based models should be used for preliminary exploration of focal species, spatial interpolation of species occurrences should be used for local assessment, while species distribution modelling provides information transferable to other contexts.

We identified the Black-winged Stilt and the Northern Lapwing as focal species for water insectivores, the Little Egret for water carnivores, the Moorhen for water herbivorous birds and the Barn swallow and the Northern House-martin for aerial insectivorous birds.

We identified the Eurasian harvest mouse as focal species for water insectivorous and herbivorous mammals, the Eurasian water shrew for water carnivorous and piscivorous mammals, and the Lesser horseshoe bat for aerial insectivorous mammals.

This study derived site-specific guideline values for nitrate toxicity that reflect the high hardness characteristics of the Pilbara region in north-western Australia.

The effectiveness of remediation and restoration differed between macroinvertebrates and fish: benthic communities were more dependent on water quality improvements at the watershed-scale, whereas brown trout populations responded to both improvements in water quality and instream habitat.

Ecological characteristics that maintain novel communities in streams may make them less responsive to habitat restoration; therefore, restoration goals may need to be modified as a result of long-term restructuring and the establishment of novel communities.

Although restoration likely improved fish and macroinvertebrate habitat, macroinvertebrates did not show predicted changes in abundance due to greater top-down control by brown trout.

Short-term crops that mature in ≤6-month period contained higher metal concentrations for most metals.

Higher Pb, Co, Fe, Cu and Al concentrations were exhibited by short-term crops, while Mn, Ni and Cr concentrations were higher in long-term crops.

Leaves from both short-term and long-term crops accumulated higher metal concentrations than other crop parts analyzed in this study.

Crops from Mbale dumpsite contain Hg, Pb, Ni, Cr, Mn, Al, Zn, Fe and Cu concentrations above WHO and FAO food safety limits, which may pose health risks to Mbale consumers.

A Bayesian network (BN) was developed to carry out probabilistic risk calculation.

The BN model is used to calculate risk of pesticides to freshwater ecosystems.

The BN predicts probabilities of exceeding alternative levels of the risk quotient.

The BN can incorporate uncertainties more transparently than traditional methods.

Co-occurrence assessments of pesticide use areas and listed species ranges mandated by the Endangered Species Act are impaired by data gaps and statistical issues.

These co-occurrence assessments are also inefficient, and a substantial backlog exists.

We show that incorporating probabilistic estimates of both pesticide use and species distributions improves these assessments.

We also demonstrate that efficiencies may be realized by batch-processing these assessments for groups of listed species.

We evaluated waterborne vs. solventborne automotive basecoats using an alternatives assessment framework.

Waterborne basecoats contained fewer hazardous ingredients and at lower concentrations than their solventborne counterparts and offered additional advantages with regard to several other factors.

We conclude that waterborne basecoats are safer and commercially viable alternatives to solventborne products.

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability — Glenn Suter

Unsettled: What climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters — Robert Stevenson

Unsettled: What climate science tells us, what it doesn't, and why it matters — Glenn Suter

The use of dispersants in marine oil spill response — Mace G. Barron

Anthropogenic pollution of aquatic ecosystems — Zhongli Chen

Environmental strategy and planning in China — Rong Zhi-Yi

Science by women: Stories from careers in STEM — Louise Stevenson

Strategies for sustainability of the earth system — Nasrin Golzadeh

Storm lake: Change, resilience, and hope in america's heartland — Glenn Suter