Tag: EPA
EPA orders Norfolk Southern to conduct cleanup and cover costs of...
“Let me be clear: Norfolk Southern will pay for cleaning up the mess they created and for the trauma they’ve inflicted on this community."
‘Huge win’: Court finds EPA approval of bee-killing sulfoxaflor unlawful
"Studies show that the widespread adoption of systemic insecticides has made our landscapes 48 times more deadly for pollinators like honeybees."
Why the US is losing the fight to ban toxic chemicals
The flaws of the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deeper than funding or the decisions of the last presidential administration.
EPA gives school districts across U.S. nearly $1 billion to buy...
“It doesn’t make sense to send our kids to school on buses that create brain-harming, lung-harming, cancer-causing, climate-harming pollution″
EPA calls out environmental racism in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
The Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter it sent last week to state regulators in response to civil rights complaints about air pollution in the region known as Cancer Alley.
Biden administration announces plans to double funding for clean school buses
School districts from all 50 states applied for the 2022 Clean School Bus rebates.
EPA names PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances
"[The] EPA must urgently follow up this rule with strong science-based and equitable actions to regulate PFAS as a class."
EPA proposes regulating two common ‘forever chemicals’ under superfund law
“We applaud EPA’s action to address the PFAS crisis plaguing communities across the country. It is an important first step that will hold polluters accountable and start cleaning up contaminated sites.”
EPA finds 23 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country above agency’s...
Ethylene oxide is known to cause cancer when people within close proximity to sterilizer facilities breathe the gas in over the course of many years.
Climate activists demand more from state lawmakers in wake of Supreme...
With the federal government’s ability to tackle climate change curtailed by the Supreme Court, activists are pressing climate-friendly state lawmakers to step up.
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Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police
Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.
America first is America alone
Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.
Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds
The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.
Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?
If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.
Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and curb billionaire influence
Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.