Tag: EPA
Federal judge halts Trump administration freeze on billions in climate and...
Court rules that blocking congressionally approved aid for clean energy, public health, and environmental protection violated federal law and harmed communities nationwide.
How 77 tons of radioactive waste ended up in Brooklyn
A lawsuit charges National Grid, a major gas utility, with mismanaging a toxic industrial site near two densely-populated residential neighborhoods.
Judge blocks Trump EPA from clawing back $14 billion in climate...
Judge Chutkan said the government’s “vague and unsubstantiated assertions of fraud are insufficient.”
‘The day Trump’s Big Oil megadonors paid for’: EPA Chief Zeldin...
EPA chief announced 31 deregulation actions that will roll back Biden-era environmental rules, including those concerning climate change, electric vehicles (EVs) and pollution limits for coal-fired power plants.
Will EPA standards be eliminated wholesale under Lee Zeldin?
More of the same is happening—and worse is anticipated, especially regarding climate change.
Supreme Court weakens clean water protections, allowing more raw sewage discharge...
The ruling blocks the EPA from enforcing broad water quality limits through “end result” permits, which require cities and businesses to ensure discharged water meets pollution standards.
EPA bans cancer-causing chemicals used in dry cleaning and industry
EPA bans two cancer-causing chemicals, marking a critical step in protecting public health and the environment after decades of harm.
EPA’s historic ban on toxic chemicals: A win for health, or...
The EPA bans two carcinogenic chemicals after decades of advocacy, but political and industrial challenges loom.
Formaldehyde causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant. Little...
Formaldehyde threatens everyone as it pollutes the air we all breathe and leaks from products long after they enter our homes. It is virtually everywhere.
Sierra Club sounds alarm, nominee Lee Zeldin ‘unqualified’ to head EPA
“The best-case scenario is that the EPA will lose four years in the fight for the planet. The worst-case scenario should send a shudder down your spine.”
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Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues
"We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth about ourselves: what we believe, what we reject, and what we want.”
Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs
The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.
Ramadan under the blockade: The women of Havana’s only mosque
What will happen to the women living under the boot of the U.S. empire if women here sit back and merely wait for the next election cycle?
A First Lady in a New York Cell
One year later, Cilia Flores, the wife of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, languishes in a cell in New York City, having been dragged out of her room and kidnapped by U.S. forces on the Jan. 3 attack on Venezuela.
Why the Trump administration doesn’t just break the law
Whether the Trump administration cloaks its actions in legal rationales or disregards legality altogether, communities at home and abroad continue to resist.