Tag: EPA
EPA updates plans to limit use of science in decision-making
"They're putting in nonscientific criteria to decide what science the agency can use."
EPA enforcement in distress — and more trouble is brewing
The White House has now quietly and ominously asked polluters to help identify new opportunities for deregulation.
Critics: Trump EPA’s formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human...
"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
Science-advisory board says Trump administration’s policies run counter to established science
"EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler must immediately withdraw these unlawful proposals that threaten the health and well-being of all Americans."
EPA’s proposed ‘secret science’ rule directly threatens children’s health
If the secret science rule is adopted, EPA officials will have to pretend that this kind of research doesn’t exist, since the patient records that it draws on can’t be made public.
U.S. Government sides with Bayer over Roundup cancer case
Roundup weedkiller did not have to require cancer warnings, according to the EPA and Justice Department.
EPA watchdog: White House blocked part of truck pollution investigation, caused...
"The troubling extent to which the Trump EPA went to break the law and abuse the regulatory process in order to benefit individual political benefactors from the glider truck industry."
Trump’s EPA re-approves ‘cyanide bombs’ deadly to coyotes, foxes and feral...
“This appalling decision leaves cyanide traps lurking in our wild places to threaten people, pets, and imperiled animals.”
As air pollution reaches epidemic proportions, EPA rollbacks cause 200,000 deaths...
"When a study shows 99% of death occurring at exposure levels below that threshold, that should make us look much harder at whether the threshold protects people effectively enough.”
Trump EPA unlawfully ignored dangerous chemicals, rules court
In the case of asbestos, the EPA's new direction would mean ignoring almost 8.9 million tones of asbestos-containing products.
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The President from Hell (and High Water)
Tom Engelhardt on what a Democratic sweep in November would and would not change, and a $2.8 billion bomb sale to Israel.
Colorado sues to stop private immigration detention center in Hudson
The state says the federal government never studied what a 1,200-bed facility would do to a town of about 1,600, its water supply or local wildlife.
Residents sue Avenal landfill operators over toxic gases and alleged underground fire
State records cited by a community group show carbon monoxide readings of up to 3,420 parts per million in landfill wells, more than double the level regulators say suggests a subsurface fire.
Crystal Mason’s belief in democracy was shaken — but not destroyed
For 10 years, Texas prosecutors accused her of voter fraud after she cast a provisional ballot that was never counted in the 2016 election. That changed Thursday.
Credit Acceptance agrees to million settlement over unaffordable subprime car loans
Borrowers who lost cars to repossession will get million in debt relief, and the lender must cap vehicle prices at 109% of retail book value for seven years.