Tag: EPA
EPA proposes to double amount of formaldehyde considered safe to inhale...
Is this change part of a broader reassessment of how the agency evaluates cancer risks from chemicals?
Trump DOJ backs Bayer in Supreme Court fight over Roundup cancer...
A move by the administration aligns federal power with pesticide manufacturers as thousands of cancer patients fight for their day in court.
Scientists completed a toxicity report on this forever chemical. The EPA...
Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.
America is still using diquat, a toxic weedkiller banned in much...
Despite mounting evidence of serious health risks, the U.S. continues to allow diquat use on farms.
Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding isn’t simple and could have unintended consequences
The Trump administration is trying to eliminate it.
Trump’s EPA deepens environmental rollback with delays, deregulation, and industry favoritism
From coal ash delays to dicamba reapproval, Trump’s EPA faces backlash for gutting public health safeguards and empowering polluters.
Millions exposed to toxic PFAS levels as EPA retreats from safety...
New data reveals over 73 million Americans may be drinking water contaminated with toxic PFAS, while the EPA under Trump moves to weaken or repeal health standards.
House Republicans move to block EPA action on toxic PFAS in...
A provision in the latest GOP spending bill would halt enforcement of an EPA risk assessment warning that sewage sludge fertilizer contaminates farmland with cancer-linked forever chemicals.
Common weedkiller ingredient diquat linked to organ damage and gut harm...
New research shows diquat, used in place of glyphosate, is more toxic and banned abroad but widely sprayed in US agriculture.
Trump signs Congressional Review Act, reverses three California clean vehicle programs
California plans to challenge the resolutions through legal action.
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.