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Federal Court Tosses Trump’s Clean Power Plan Replacement

Federal Court Tosses Trump’s Clean Power Plan Replacement

A federal court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration‘s rollback of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Trump’s Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule, which was finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2019, moved away from imposing national limits on greenhouse gas emissions, instead allowing states to […]

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    Trump’s Latest EPA Rollback Lets Polluters Spew More Lead, Arsenic, Mercury

    Trump’s Latest EPA Rollback Lets Polluters Spew More Lead, Arsenic, Mercury

    Trump‘s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has weakened yet another safeguard against air pollution in the midst of a respiratory pandemic. The agency finalized a rollback Thursday of the Clinton-era “once in, always in” policy that required major polluters like industrial plants and refineries to maintain the highest possible levels of pollution controls as long as […]

    EPA Updates Plans to Limit Use of Science in Decision-Making

    EPA Updates Plans to Limit Use of Science in Decision-Making

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) used the cover of Super Tuesday to put out an update to its plans to limit scientific research in its decision-making on Tuesday evening, as the mass media world had its eyes focused on the election results trickling in. The proposal, called Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science, is part […]

    Trump’s EPA Backs Bayer’s Appeal in Roundup Verdict Appeal

    Trump’s EPA Backs Bayer’s Appeal in Roundup Verdict Appeal

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added its weight to back Bayer AG in its appeal against a federal jury verdict that decided its Roundup weed killer causes cancer, according to Bloomberg. Bayer is looking to overturn a verdict that first awarded a plaintiff $80 million, but was reduced to $25 million by a federal judge, […]

    945 Toxic Waste Sites at Risk of Disaster From Climate Crisis

    945 Toxic Waste Sites at Risk of Disaster From Climate Crisis

    The climate crisis has put at least 945 designated toxic waste sites at severe risk of disaster from escalating wildfires, floods, rising seas and other climate-related disasters, according to a new study from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), as the AP reported. The country’s most contaminated spots that pose an imminent threat to human […]

    Disbanded Air Pollution Panel Finds EPA Standards Don’t Protect Public Health

    Disbanded Air Pollution Panel Finds EPA Standards Don’t Protect Public Health

    By Gretchen Goldman 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. The group of 20 independent experts, that were disbanded by Administrator Wheeler last October and reconvened last week, hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists, has now […]

    These Scientists Were Disbanded by the EPA — They Plan to Meet Anyway

    These Scientists Were Disbanded by the EPA — They Plan to Meet Anyway

    A group of 20 scientists charged with reviewing the nation’s air quality standards plans to convene and to issue a report on the country’s air pollution regulations, even though the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) disbanded their panel. In a move that is consistent with the administration’s skepticism towards science and expertise, the EPA administrator, Andrew […]