The move is the latest Trump a...
EPA to ease rules on power plants storing deadly coal ash
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The EPA’s own Science Advisory Board (SAB)—two-thirds of which was appointed by the Trump administration—is the latest group of scientists to come out swinging against a proposal to restrict the use of science in agency decisions.
read moreHow Has This Pesticide Not Bee...
Government scientists say chlorpyrifos is unsafe. And yet it’s still in use.
read moreWhy (Some) Automakers Are Work...
The Los Angeles Auto Show is just wrapping up, but while my colleague Dave Reichmuth was there getting a sneak peek at what the next couple years have in store, California’s emissions regulators were absent for the first time in 50 years.
read more60% of Toxic Superfund Sites T...
Hundreds of polluted sites face an increased risk of inundation from sea level rise, flooding exacerbated by global warming, or wildfires, Congress’s watchdog warns.
read moreE.P.A. Weakens Rules Governing...
The Trump administration on Monday moved to weaken an Obama-era regulation aimed at limiting the seepage of toxic pollution into water supplies from the ash of coal burning power plants, a change that coal industry leaders say could keep plants open longer and which environmental groups fear will increase the risk of water contamination.
read moreE.P.A. Set to Roll Back Rules ...
The Trump administration is expected to roll back an Obama-era regulation to limit dangerous heavy metals like arsenic, lead and mercury from coal-fired power plants, according to two people familiar with the plans.
read moreThat 1970s scourge acid rain i...
Starting in the 1970s acid rain turned hundreds of lakes and streams in Adirondack Park in upstate New York so acidic that fish could not survive.
read moreDisbanded Air Pollution Panel ...
The Independent Particulate Matter Review Panel has released their consensus recommendations to the EPA administrator on the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter.
read moreEPA Boss, a Former Koch Exec, ...
A former Koch Industries chemicals expert appointed by the Trump administration to run the Environmental Protection Agency’s research office participated in conversations about the safety of formaldehyde even though he said he would recuse himself due to his conflict of interest, Politico reports.
read moreA ‘Chilling Message’: Trump Cr...
President Trump’s political feud with California has spread collateral damage across more than a dozen other states, which have seen their regulatory authority curtailed and their autonomy threatened by a Trump administration intent on weakening the environmental statutes of the country’s most populous state.
read moreKilling California car polluti...
If you want to upend a half-century of legal tradition, you better have a damn-solid argument to justify your move. Especially if it’s a legal move so broad that it could nullify local speed limits.
read moreTrump to bar California from s...
The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own vehicle greenhouse gas standards and blocking states from setting tailpipe emission rules — a move that will spark a furious legal challenge, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday
read moreTrump Administration to Roll B...
The Trump administration on Thursday announced the repeal of a major Obama-era clean water regulation that had placed limits on polluting chemicals that could be used near streams, wetlands and other bodies of water.
read moreAmerica is in the midst of a l...
Since the Flint drinking water crisis erupted five years ago, Americans have realized that many cities and towns struggle to ensure safe water.
read moreEPA publishes draft permit for...
Agency proposes to allow industrial ocean fish farm discharge of untreated fish waste and other toxins directly into Gulf of Mexico
read moreA Republican Firm Is Targeting...
America Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.
read more‘The next Flint,’ and America’...
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: A U.S. city is facing a public health crisis, after years of denying that it had a problem with lead in its drinking water supply.
read moreWe’ve got another ozone proble...
Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe.
read moreStates Sue Trump Administratio...
A coalition of 29 states and cities on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on coal-burning power plants.
read moreEPA Stops Collecting Data on P...
EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler exempted farms from reporting hazardous air emissions from animal waste. Prior to this action, farms that emitted 100 pounds or more of ammonia or hydrogen sulfide per day into the air were required to report to local agencies.
read moreSo Long and Thanks for all the...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has once again washed its hands of its responsibility to protect the health and safety of our waterways.
read moreThe environmental case for a T...
On July 1, 2019, the boards members of Friends of the Earth and Friends of the Earth Action passed a resolution calling on Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to begin an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump.
read moreEPA proposal scraps limits on ...
The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed scrapping restrictions on arsenic-laden waste from coal-fired power plants.
read more‘Toxic Stew’ Stirred Up ...
New research shows that the extreme weather and fires of recent years, similar to the flooding that has struck Louisiana and the Midwest, may be making Americans sick in ways researchers are only beginning to understand.
read more10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Dec...
On July 8, President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record.
read moreTrump the Environmentalist?
With swing states worried about climate change and toxic algae, the White House is talking green—while still working to strip away environmental protections.
read moreE.P.A. Plans to Curtail the Ab...
The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to weaken rules that for the past quarter-century have given communities a voice in deciding how much pollution may legally be released by nearby power plants and factories.
read moreTrump administration to approv...
EPA said studies it considered, most of which were sponsored by industry, found sulfoxaflor isn’t dangerous for the pollinators
read moreThere’s a new EPA air sheriff ...
Out with one EPA official with close ties to big polluters, in with Anne Idsal, a little-known, politically connected Texan with a shaky grasp on climate science.
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