Tag: EPA

The Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule, which tightens restrictions on harmful pollutants that are byproducts of burning coal, was challenged by 20 states

Twenty states tried to derail the Obama administration’s mercury regulation.

Whoever gets elected president, and controls the EPA, will literally change the course of the world.

"We’re disappointed the rule has been stayed, but you can’t stay climate change and you can’t stay climate action," says EPA spokesperson.

The U.S. Court of Appeals has recently decided it was time for polluters to pay for the destruction they have caused instead of making American taxpayers foot the bill.

The official in charge of America’s Midwest region may have resigned, but the EPA is not solely to blame.

Activists issued their own corrective on the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan at each of the EPA’s 10 regional offices yesterday.

“A single seed coated with a neonicotinoid insecticide is enough to kill a songbird.”

Meanwhile, a new paper published Jan. 6 in the Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental and Epidemiology only emphasizes why further evaluations on fracking fluids are a must.

There is far more self-evident misconduct to censure 47 GOP senators than even this regressive House would dare place at Obama's door. Like patriotism for Mark Twain, this cowardly war of party nullification is the last refuse of scoundrels.