Tag: environment

“It just goes to show the power of radical collaboration and the energy around this crisis.”

"Pruitt and Wheeler are creating a loophole for super polluting freight trucks that will fill our children's lungs with toxic diesel pollution, ignoring public comments from moms and leading businesses across the country."

During his tenure, Pruitt undertook a radical effort to reshape the EPA.

Awareness is the critical ingredient in change, individually and collectively.

"Evidence shows that current levels are still not sufficiently safe and need to be tightened.”

“I’m really worried when you see this kind of very large investment and then we try to play catch-up on evaluating what the risks and the impacts on people are.”

But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.

That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.

Rock Valley acted quickly to shut off water wells following the spill and plans to drain the wells and use rural water until the well water tests safe.

"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."