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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 […]

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    House Committee to Challenge Climate Science

    House Committee to Challenge Climate Science

    The House Science Committee will hear testimony March 29 that will question whether climate change is a human induced phenomenon. The hearing, Climate Science: Assumptions, Policy Implications and the Scientific Method, is a just another prong in the current effort to undo the environmental progress made during the Obama years. It coincides with the efforts […]

    Monsanto Faces Hundreds of New Cancer Lawsuits as Debate Over Glyphosate Rages On

    Monsanto Faces Hundreds of New Cancer Lawsuits as Debate Over Glyphosate Rages On

    Monsanto has been slapped with another slew of cancer lawsuits over its most popular pesticide as the debate over the health risks of glyphosate rages on. Los Angeles-based law firm Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman filed lawsuits last week on behalf of 136 plaintiffs from across the country who allege that exposure to Monsanto’s glyphosate-based […]

    Trump Files Motion to Delay Kids’ Historic Climate Lawsuit

    Trump Files Motion to Delay Kids’ Historic Climate Lawsuit

    The Trump administration filed a motion Tuesday seeking an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on a federal judge’s Nov. 10, 2016 order in Juliana v. United States. The Trump administration also filed a motion to delay trial preparation until after its appeal is considered. Kids Name Trump as Defendant in Landmark Climate […]

    Judge Orders Trump’s EPA Pick to Release Emails by Tuesday

    Judge Orders Trump’s EPA Pick to Release Emails by Tuesday

    The Oklahoma County Court on Thursday found Trump‘s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) nominee Scott Pruitt in violation of the state’s Open Records Act. The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) filed a lawsuit against Pruitt for improperly withholding public records and the court ordered his office to release thousands of emails in a matter […]

    NASA Scientist Detained at Border, Forced to Unlock Phone

    NASA Scientist Detained at Border, Forced to Unlock Phone

    Sidd Bikkannavar, a U.S.-born citizen and scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) when trying to reenter the country from Chile late last month. Bikkannavar was in Patagonia racing solar-powered cars. He was detained by CPB in Houston without explanation and forced to unlock his NASA-issued […]

    North Dakota Bill Would Protect Motorists Who ‘Unintentionally Cause Injury or Death’ to Protesters

    North Dakota Bill Would Protect Motorists Who ‘Unintentionally Cause Injury or Death’ to Protesters

    By Kali Holloway As Donald Trump takes office, pushing a wave of explicitly authoritarian federal policies and practices, Republican leaders at every level are following suit. The latest example is North Dakota lawmaker Keith Kempenich, who has introduced a bill that says a driver “who unintentionally causes injury or death to an individual obstructing vehicular […]

    12 Words of Wisdom From Leonard Cohen

    12 Words of Wisdom From Leonard Cohen

    [Editor’s note: As we roll up our sleeves to ensure the health and well-being of our planet for future generations, I find the words of Leonard Cohen soothing and inspiring. I hope you do too, as trying times are ahead.] By Virginia Small Just before Donald Trump became our reality TV star president-elect, songwriter-bard Leonard […]

    5 Big Wins, 2 Big Losses on Key Eco-Ballot Initiatives

    5 Big Wins, 2 Big Losses on Key Eco-Ballot Initiatives

    Key environmentally-related ballot measures in six states received mixed results yesterday. On the plus side, Florida voters saw through utility industry efforts to thwart the state’s burgeoning solar energy business and California voters appeared to affirm the state’s ban on single-use plastic bags. Both Massachusetts and Oregon passed key animal protection laws. But, two historically […]