By Jessica Corbett As the Biden administration faces pressure to step up its climate action, the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced its first rule to tackle the global emergency—a proposal to reduce planet-heating chemicals commonly used in refrigeration and air conditioning by 85% over the next 15 years. The EPA’s proposed rule on hydrofluorocarbons […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday it will remove more than 40 members of scientific advisory panels appointed under the previous administration in an effort to reduce the heavy influence of regulated industries over the regulatory process. The Trump administration barred — illegally, according to critics — experts who received EPA grants […]
By Noah Horowitz While the energy efficiency of America’s smart televisions has improved greatly since flat panel models were first introduced, some of the energy savings are at risk due to new “smart wake” features that can waste a lot of power when the TV is in standby mode. These features provide the user with […]
By Andrea Germanos The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday brought back its climate change website — a resource the former Trump administration had yanked. How it started. How it’s going. Climate science is back at the @EPA 👇https://t.co/WuC789TKue pic.twitter.com/IXCrji7Biw — Select Committee on the Climate Crisis (@ClimateCrisis) March 18, 2021 “Climate facts are […]
The Senate on Wednesday voted 66 to 34 to confirm Biden-nominee Michael Regan as head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), making him the first Black man to hold the position. Regan is one of several nominees that the Biden administration announced in December as part of a team to tackle the climate crisis. But […]
For the third time in three years, the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Amazon to stop selling illegal pesticides. The EPA’s Seattle office announced Tuesday that it had presented the online retailer with a “stop sale” order targeting products that were unregistered and potentially dangerous or ineffective. Some of them made false […]
A federal judge vacated the so-called “secret science” rule that limited EPA’s ability to use public health research to craft policy on Monday. The Biden administration had determined the justification proffered, unsuccessfully, by the Trump administration for its hasty publication of the rule was legally indefensible. The rule, originally conceived by the tobacco industry in […]
By Taryn MacKinney First, the bad news: An analysis by the Union of Concerned Scientists reveals that federal agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have lost hundreds of scientists since 2017. The good news: With the Biden administration already acting on its pledge to lead with science, a […]
The U.S. EPA launched an environmental justice investigation this week into the relocation of a polluting scrapyard from a predominantly white and wealthy neighborhood on Chicago’s North Side to a predominantly poor and Latinx neighborhood on the city’s Southeast Side last year. The investigation stems from complaints brought by Southeast [Chicago] Environmental Task Force and […]
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