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New Report Promotes Need for Fashion Industry Action

New Report Promotes Need for Fashion Industry Action

By Linda Greer The fashion industry doesn’t necessarily have the biggest nose-to-the-grindstone, follow-the-numbers reputation of an industry, let’s face it. It is better known for its creativity, innovation and trendsetting. But this sector packs a major punch environmentally, let me tell you—in terms of climate impact, water use and pollution. We urgently need a serious […]

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    Siding With Monsanto, GOP Threatens to Cut Off WHO Funds Over Glyphosate Finding

    Siding With Monsanto, GOP Threatens to Cut Off WHO Funds Over Glyphosate Finding

    By Jake Johnson During a House Science Committee hearing on Tuesday, Republican lawmakers sided with the chemical industry in questioning the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s (IARC) classification of glyphosate—the key ingredient in the Monsanto-produced weedkiller Roundup—as a probable carcinogen and threatened to cut off the agency’s funding. IARC, a branch of the World […]

    Trump Administration Sued for Suspension of Clean Water Rule

    Trump Administration Sued for Suspension of Clean Water Rule

    Multiple states and conservation groups are legally challenging the Trump administration’s decision to delay the Obama-era Clean Water Rule. Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a two-year suspension on the rule, also known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS), which protects large water bodies like lakes and rivers but also listed […]

    EPA Blocks Clean Water Rule to Replace With ‘Industry-Friendly’ Alternative

    EPA Blocks Clean Water Rule to Replace With ‘Industry-Friendly’ Alternative

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) put a two-year suspension on the Clean Water Rule, an Obama-era policy defining which waters can be protected against pollution and destruction under federal law. Last year, President Trump declared the 2015 law, also known as Waters of the United States (WOTUS), “a horrible, horrible rule,” tasking EPA Administrator […]

    Can the Great Lakes Become Fishable, Drinkable and Swimmable Again?

    Can the Great Lakes Become Fishable, Drinkable and Swimmable Again?

    By Susan Cosier As Mark Mattson waited to speak to Canada’s minister for the environment, Catherine McKenna, about the Great Lakes last December, he could feel the weight of the 184-page report he carried in his shoulder bag. At the Toronto meeting, McKenna asked Mattson, founder and president of the Lake Ontario arm of the […]

    California Goes Big on EVs

    California Goes Big on EVs

    By Simon Mui Gov. Brown released an Executive Order Friday providing the details of an initiative to put 5 million electric-drive vehicles (EVs) on the road by 2030, part of a new goal announced last week in his State of the State address. The ambitious and achievable goal would increase the current number of EVs […]

    Trump EPA Withdraws Clean Air Policy Opposed By Fossil Fuel Companies

    Trump EPA Withdraws Clean Air Policy Opposed By Fossil Fuel Companies

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is withdrawing the “once-in always-in” policy for the classification of major sources of hazardous air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. As Reuters pointed out, the move on Thursday is “part of President Donald Trump‘s effort to roll back federal regulations and was sought by utilities, the petroleum industry […]

    Earth to Ford: Get Back on Track With Clean Cars

    Earth to Ford: Get Back on Track With Clean Cars

    This week, tens of thousands of people will attend the Washington Auto Show to see the latest that the industry has to offer. However, instead of moving toward a cleaner transportation future, Ford Motor Company and other automakers are working to take us backward: They are lobbying the Trump administration to weaken clean car standards, […]