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Two Boys Charged With Killing Half a Million Honeybees in Iowa

Two Boys Charged With Killing Half a Million Honeybees in Iowa

Two boys were charged with killing more than a half million bees at a honey business in Iowa last month. “All of the beehives on the honey farm were destroyed and approximately 500,000 bees perished in the frigid temperatures,” Sioux City police said in a release. The suspects, a 12 and 13 year old, allegedly […]

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    Trump Administration Repeals Obama Rule Designed to Make Fracking Safer

    Trump Administration Repeals Obama Rule Designed to Make Fracking Safer

    The Trump administration is rescinding Obama-era rules designed to increase the safety of fracking. “We believe it imposes administrative burdens and compliance costs that are not justified,” the Interior Department‘s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) wrote in a notice published Friday in the Federal Register. The 2015 rule required companies drilling for natural gas and […]

    Analysis: Congress Attacked Endangered Species Every 6 Days in 2017

    Analysis: Congress Attacked Endangered Species Every 6 Days in 2017

    The Republican-controlled 115th Congress has introduced at least 63 separate pieces of legislation that would strip federal protections for specific threatened species or undermine the U.S. Endangered Species Act, according to a new analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity. That’s one such bill every six days in 2017 alone. The majority of these bills […]

    EPA Says Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Contradicting IARC

    EPA Says Glyphosate Does Not Cause Cancer, Contradicting IARC

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released on Monday a human health and ecological draft risk assessment for glyphosate, concluding that the widely used—and highly controversial—pesticide is “not likely to be carcinogenic to humans.” According to the EPA’s announcement, the assessment “found no other meaningful risks to human health when the product is used according […]

    British Columbia Bans Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunting

    British Columbia Bans Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunting

    British Columbia’s provincial government Monday announced a decision to prohibit grizzly bear hunting province-wide. In stark contrast to the province’s decision to protect its estimated 15,000 grizzly bears, the Trump administration in June removed endangered species protections for the roughly 700 bears found in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Following the removal of federal protections, Idaho, […]

    EPA: Neonicotinoid Pesticides Pose Serious Risks to Birds, Aquatic Life

    EPA: Neonicotinoid Pesticides Pose Serious Risks to Birds, Aquatic Life

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released multiple scientific assessments last week that found commonly used neonicotinoid pesticides can kill and harm birds of all sizes. Separate analyses also found the pesticides pose significant danger to aquatic invertebrates, which play a crucial role in supporting larger ecosystems. The troubling assessments come on the heels of […]

    These Butterflies Have Lawyers

    These Butterflies Have Lawyers

    By John R. Platt Don’t mess with Texas butterflies. They have lawyers. This week attorneys representing the North American Butterfly Association filed a suit against the Trump administration for its plan to build a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall through a significant portion of the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas. The construction plan […]