Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Tag: EPA

Disbanded air pollution panel finds EPA standards don’t protect public health

The panel supported the preliminary conclusions of a Draft EPA Policy Assessment that the current standards aren't requisite to protect public health.

Hotbed of resistance: A voice from inside Trump’s EPA

On Feb. 6, 2017, 300 people took to the streets of Chicago in protest of the impending confirmation of Scott Pruitt as...

By allowing 6 million lead service lines to stay in ground,...

Public health groups that have waited decades for the federal government to overhaul its lead-in-water rules were outraged Thursday over EPA Administrator...

Trump administration disbanded marine life and health advisory boards

The White House is currently making moves to eliminate three federal advisory boards that deal with the protection of marine life. 

These scientists were disbanded by the EPA — they plan to...

"This is the first time in the history of EPA where the credibility of the agency's science review process has been so compromised that an independent panel of experts has recognized the need for and will be conducting a comprehensive review."

“Voices being ignored”: Regulators fail to enforce water-pollution laws in communities...

"For communities already facing severe burdens due to racism, social conditions, and/or environmental and health hazards, the inability to turn on a tap and receive clean, safe water is particularly devastating—and unjust."

Trump threatens to veto first-ever congressional action on “forever chemicals”

A handful of multibillion-dollar chemical companies have waged war on our bodies and our environment for nearly 70 years without our knowledge...

The EPA will end mammal testing by 2035

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pledged Tuesday to "aggressively reduce animal testing" and to end funding for mammal tests by 2035. The move makes...

Beekeepers file lawsuit against EPA for approval of insecticide linked to...

"When brought back to the hive sulfoxaflor "can impair the colony’s ability to breed, forage, fight disease and survive the winter."

Science advisory boards see major cuts and controversial changes under Trump...

“From what I have heard from members of the EPA who are still there, the idea the best thing is to keep your head down.”

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Spain blocks US war operations in Iran and calls conflict “profoundly illegal”

Madrid closes airspace and denies military base access, widening tensions with Washington as legal experts cite violations of the UN charter

Trump, complicity in genocide, started a terrible war; he must be removed NOW.

When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?

Nuke power equals Trump profits

Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all. 

Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...

What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.

Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...

Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.