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EPA Panel Divided on Whether Glyphosate Causes Cancer

EPA Panel Divided on Whether Glyphosate Causes Cancer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) meetings on glyphosate concluded last Friday after scientists spent the better part of four days discussing and analyzing numerous studies on the carcinogenicity of glyphosate, a key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. Does #Glyphosate #Cause Cancer? @EPA Panel Meets 2 Find Out https://t.co/DpDwVIOPLH @nongmoreport @USRightToKnow @markhymanmd @NonGMOProject — EcoWatch […]

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    Trump: ‘Nobody Really Knows’ if Climate Change Is Real

    Trump: ‘Nobody Really Knows’ if Climate Change Is Real

    “Nobody really knows” if climate change is real, Donald Trump told Chris Wallace in an interview on Fox News Sunday, despite decades of established science. We hope you enjoyed the show today w/ President-elect Trump as he spoke in his first Sunday show interview since winning the election. #fns pic.twitter.com/bosONSG6mJ — FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) December 12, […]

    Moms Outraged at Trump’s Pick to Head EPA

    Moms Outraged at Trump’s Pick to Head EPA

    By Dominique Browning The nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is unprecedented. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, it is a travesty—because Pruitt has vigorously used his office to derail and obstruct clean air safeguards that are broadly supported by Americans in red and […]

    USDA Gives Monsanto and Scotts’ Glyphosate-Resistant Grass Green Light

    USDA Gives Monsanto and Scotts’ Glyphosate-Resistant Grass Green Light

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a final environmental impact statement Wednesday giving the green light to genetically engineered (GE) creeping bentgrass, a highly invasive grass genetically engineered by Monsanto and Scotts to withstand what would normally be a fatal dose of the herbicide glyphosate. Decades-old outdoor experiments have proven the novel grass impossible to […]

    Trump Picks ‘Puppet of the Fossil Fuel Industry’ to Head EPA

    Trump Picks ‘Puppet of the Fossil Fuel Industry’ to Head EPA

    Donald Trump has appointed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The conservative Republican has close ties to the fossil fuel industry and has waged numerous legal wars against the EPA and President Obama’s environmental regulations, including the president’s signature Clean Power Plan. Pruitt, who was elected as Oklahoma’s […]

    As Trump Waffles on Climate, What Should We Believe?

    As Trump Waffles on Climate, What Should We Believe?

    Al Gore was the latest participant in the president-elect’s parade of pandering, meeting with daughter Ivanka Trump and then Donald Trump himself. Might this mean we might see a change his position on climate change? And will the impeccably cited letter to Ivanka or interview with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Dakota Access Pipeline, […]

    From Fracking Enthusiast to Exxon CEO: Trump’s Latest Picks

    From Fracking Enthusiast to Exxon CEO: Trump’s Latest Picks

    The Donald Trump camp added fracking enthusiast, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critic and ALEC-linked Amy Oliver Cooke to the EPA landing team on Thursday. Cooke once co-authored an op-ed titled Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret: Cancer. Trump Tower is President-elect Trump’s transition hub.Wikipedia NBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted that Trump is considering ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson […]

    EPA Watered Down Major Fracking Study to Downplay Water Contamination Risks

    EPA Watered Down Major Fracking Study to Downplay Water Contamination Risks

    A stunning new report from Marketplace and APM Reports reveals that top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials made critical, last-minute changes to the agency’s major fracking assessment to soft-pedal clear evidence that the controversial drilling process contaminates the nation’s water supplies. Fracking operations in Dimock, Pennsylvania contaminated local water supplies. Flickr We’ve already seen […]