Tag: EPA
EPA updates plans to limit use of science in decision-making
"They're putting in nonscientific criteria to decide what science the agency can use."
EPA enforcement in distress — and more trouble is brewing
The White House has now quietly and ominously asked polluters to help identify new opportunities for deregulation.
Critics: Trump EPA’s formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human...
"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
Science-advisory board says Trump administration’s policies run counter to established science
"EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler must immediately withdraw these unlawful proposals that threaten the health and well-being of all Americans."
EPA’s proposed ‘secret science’ rule directly threatens children’s health
If the secret science rule is adopted, EPA officials will have to pretend that this kind of research doesn’t exist, since the patient records that it draws on can’t be made public.
U.S. Government sides with Bayer over Roundup cancer case
Roundup weedkiller did not have to require cancer warnings, according to the EPA and Justice Department.
EPA watchdog: White House blocked part of truck pollution investigation, caused...
"The troubling extent to which the Trump EPA went to break the law and abuse the regulatory process in order to benefit individual political benefactors from the glider truck industry."
Trump’s EPA re-approves ‘cyanide bombs’ deadly to coyotes, foxes and feral...
“This appalling decision leaves cyanide traps lurking in our wild places to threaten people, pets, and imperiled animals.”
As air pollution reaches epidemic proportions, EPA rollbacks cause 200,000 deaths...
"When a study shows 99% of death occurring at exposure levels below that threshold, that should make us look much harder at whether the threshold protects people effectively enough.”
Trump EPA unlawfully ignored dangerous chemicals, rules court
In the case of asbestos, the EPA's new direction would mean ignoring almost 8.9 million tones of asbestos-containing products.
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Apathy in the American Medical Association
It is well past time that they break their silence.
A mulish fool, a farce-spoiled pool and more swill from staggering misrule
No matter the mayhem, great or small,/ Dredge up “vandals did it” protocol.
Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado River water. Four...
If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.
How Russia and China learned to love their border
Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.