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As Bayer AG (BAYGn.DE) tries to settle U.S. lawsuits claiming that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer, the company is considering a proposal that would bar plaintiffs’ lawyers involved in the litigation from advertising for new clients, according to a person familiar with the matter.
read moreThe Trump administration on Thursday moved to drop the threat of punishment to oil and gas companies, construction crews and other organizations that kill birds “incidentally,” arguing that businesses that accidentally kill birds ought to be able to operate without fear of prosecution.
read more[Translate] > U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor,...
read more[Translate] Image via Screengrab. Written by Tom Boggioni / Raw Story January 31, 2020 According to CNN legal analyst & Supreme...
read moreRoughly 20% of annual emissions could be captured by agricultural lands, according to one expert.
read moreA new study raises concerns about the decline of platypus populations. UNSW Science
read moreFrom Antarctica to agricultural fields, plastic waste is everywhere across the globe. We should be very concerned as this is yet another threat to our ability to feed ourselves.
read moreUniversal health care is hard, but it should be possible — and eight more things I discovered from visiting other countries.
read moreIf the bill passes, Indiana would become the third in the U.S. to pass a law aimed at combating market forces that make renewables and natural gas cheaper than coal.
read moreOrganizers have begun holding events in black communities where they lavish praise on the president while handing out thousands of dollars in giveaways.
read moreA common fertilizer can cause explosions. The EPA doesn’t classify it as ‘hazardous.’
read more[Translate] It is a great detriment to civil discourse that the divide between left and right in the United States is often depicted...
read moreThe Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for water crisis victims to sue state and local government officials in Flint, Mich.
read moreFarm pollutants from multiple states feed a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Shrimpers pay the cost.
read moreA massive invasion of desert locusts—partly fueled by the climate crisis—seriously threatens food security in already-vulnerable communities across East Africa and has increasingly alarmed United Nations experts in recent weeks.
read moreRespecting scientists has never been a priority for the Trump Administration. Now, a new investigation from The Guardian revealed that Department of the Interior political appointees sought to play up carbon emissions from California’s wildfires while hiding emissions from fossil fuels as a way to encourage more logging in the national forests controlled by the Interior department.
read moreOn Bite podcast’s 100th episode, we celebrate the next generation of American growers.
read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency has made it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers by letting them delay or otherwise change federally imposed fixes to their sewer systems, according to interviews with local officials, water utilities and their lobbyists.
read moreYet again, Sonny Perdue wants to gut a program that benefits poor people.
read moreBack in April last year, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency decided it was “not necessary” to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells.
read moreFor more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three trees and several acres of crops on their northwest Oklahoma farm.
read moreOverharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.
read moreFor the first time in the history of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, severe threats to the climate account for all five of the top spots for most likely long-term risks.
read moreThe French government has set a goal of eliminating all single-use plastics by 2040. Phase one has begun.
read moreIn the latest assault on science and the nation’s health and safety, the Trump administration recently proposed a rule that would upend the way federal agencies work to assess and minimize the harm their actions can do to the environment we all depend upon.
read moreIn early January, members of the Chesapeake Bay Commission sat in a gray conference room in Annapolis, Maryland, for a routine meeting.
read moreOver the next five years, it plans to eliminate shopping bags, straws, takeout food containers, and more.
read moreBig Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure high profit margins.
read moreLike it or not, the world will be flying more in the decades ahead—and flights are for many in the developed world the largest part of an individual’s (and often a business’s) carbon footprint.
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