Tag: EPA
Science shows US Supreme Court abortion, guns, environment rulings will have...
We can’t allow ourselves to be discouraged. Too much is at stake.
The Supreme Court has curtailed EPA’s power to regulate carbon pollution...
The U.S. has entered a new era of administrative law, with an activist court asserting its power to curtail what it perceives as the excesses of regulatory agencies – and not always waiting for those agencies to complete their work.
US Court of Appeals overturns EPA’s decision that glyphosate is safe...
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto-Bayer’s pesticide, is the most widely used pesticide in the world.
EPA revises health advisory for PFAS pollution in US water systems
The new health advisory finds no safe level for "forever chemicals" in United States water systems.
20 million acres of U.S. cropland may be contaminated by PFAS...
“The EPA could today require treatment plants to test sludge for PFAS and warn farmers that they may be contaminating fields, but it has refused to do so.”
EPA expected to extend use of bee-killing pesticides
“These insecticides are not helping the productivity of crops on fields — it seems an amazing effort to blanket all these acres with something that doesn’t have a return on investment."
U.S. consumers exposed to BPA at levels 5,000x above EU recommendations
U.S. consumers are exposed to more than 5,000 times more bisphenol-A (BPA) than the EU considers safe, and that has prompted environmental...
EPA to require Midwestern utilities clean up coal ash waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold utilities in several Midwestern states accountable for coal ash waste. The agency announced it will...
EPA’s first new air pollutant addition in 30 years reveals agency...
Here is proof that the EPA's environmental laws aren't working.
EPA finds two widely used pesticides harm majority of endangered species
Atrazine and glyphosate are both causing severe harm to many of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none
Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ importance in an age of radical...
Watch the two thinkers talk about Raboteau’s book, which discusses the work of religious figures such as Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...
The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
Justice Department drops multiple corporate crime investigations
A reported decision to abandon several major corporate crime cases has raised concerns that the federal government is easing pressure on corporate misconduct.
The Mexicanization of the United States
The destruction caused by neoliberalism is global. The patterns of economic, social, cultural and political assault that Mexico has suffered are afflicting countries from Greece to the United States. Only a worldwide anti-capitalist resistance movement will save us.