Tag: Environmental Protection Agency
Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat...
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Chemical giant to discontinue production of herbicide with active ingredient in...
Because it contains a mix of an active ingredient in Agent Orange and glyphosate, Enlist Duo is said to be one of the most dangerous herbicides still used on food crops.
Senate Democrats demand answers after EPA moves to drop monetized health...
Lawmakers say Trump administration policy could allow agency to sideline public health gains when weighing industry costs under the Clean Air Act.
Congress passes final spending bill with cuts to EPA, Interior budgets
The bill passed after a year of mass firings were conducted by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
Trump’s EPA could limit its own ability to use new science...
In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.
Trump EPA wetlands rollback seen as one of the biggest setbacks...
Clean water groups warn that the new Waters of the United States proposal would remove safeguards from most wetlands and intensify flood and pollution risks.
Trump’s $625 million coal bailout draws fire from climate and health...
Administration announces $625 million for coal plant life-extensions while Interior opens 13.1 million acres for leasing and EPA scraps pollution limits; advocates warn the public will “pay the price” through higher bills, dirtier air and stalled clean energy.
Trump EPA moves to end emissions reporting used by communities and...
The Environmental Protection Agency proposed ending the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, which since 2010 has gathered emissions data from about 8,000 large facilities, drawing sharp criticism from environmental groups, former EPA officials, and even some industry voices.
Current nitrate level EPA deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes,...
The study said the current level of nitrate that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deems safe fails to reflect birth outcomes and other potential health risks.
Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding isn’t simple and could have unintended consequences
The Trump administration is trying to eliminate it.
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Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report finds
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
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Pentagon Iran War Report admits to Worst Drubbing since Vietnam
The Pentagon puts the war's cost at 33.4 billion dollars, independent estimates put it at more than three times that, with strikes across roughly twenty Middle East bases.
Kennedy Center board warns of bankruptcy unless Trump’s name returns to building
A 57-page draft resolution ties the center's fundraising future to ten proposed inscriptions honoring the president, as a federal judge who already ruled the board overstepped weighs a related case.
Judge orders Labor Department to rewrite farmworker wage rule after finding it unlawful
The ruling forces new minimum pay rates for the guestworker visa program that brings in most of the country's legal farm labor, with back pay possible for hundreds of thousands of workers.