By Carey Gillam Sometimes the truth about our food is not very appetizing. As many gather this holiday season for shared family meals, it is likely that they’ll be serving up small doses of pesticides with each plate passed, including a prevalent type shown to be harmful to children and reproductive health. New data released […]
The Environmental Working Group is urging Toyota to reject a partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), because EPA chief Scott Pruitt‘s plan to “evaluate management practices” is cover for his real agenda of destroying the agency’s ability to do its job. In a letter sent Wednesday to James Lentz, CEO of Toyota North […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has routinely been allowing use of unapproved pesticides under the pretext of an “emergency” when no actual emergency exists, according to an analysis released Monday by the Center for Biological Diversity. The abuse of the emergency provision has created a loophole allowing the widespread use of unapproved pesticides, year […]
The U.S. Senate has passed a Republican tax-reform package that contains a provision to authorize oil drilling on the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, placing the biological heart of one of our last pristine, untouched places in severe peril. “This vote to deface and pollute one of the nation’s last pristine and […]
The Center for Biological Diversity filed on Thursday a formal notice of intent to sue the Trump administration for allowing oil companies to dump waste from fracking and drilling into the Gulf of Mexico without evaluating the dangers to sea turtles, whales or other imperiled marine life. In September the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
By Bill Walker The phaseout of a hazardous chemical formerly used to make Teflon has likely prevented thousands of low-weight births in the U.S. each year, saving billions of dollars in health care costs, according to a new study from researchers at New York University. The overall number of American babies born underweight has been […]
By Tom Neltner Pursuant to a consent decree with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is developing drinking water regulations to protect fetuses and young children from perchlorate, a toxic chemical that inhibits the thyroid’s ability to make the hormone T4 essential to brain development. The rulemaking is part […]
Carrots in a ZiplocGrapes in a bagSandwich in saran wrap, with a “fresh daily” tagWater bottle snuggled by an extra pair of socksPlastic strawChips to gnawJuice in a box That’s an average American kids lunch stuffed in a school bag, with enough plastic packaging to wallpaper the classroom. Once it comes to school lunch, we […]
By Tasha Stoiber The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) knows that dozens of the chemicals used in fracking pose health hazards. The agency not only allows their use, but also lets the oil and gas industry keep the chemicals secret, according to a new report. Between 2003 and 2014 the EPA identified health hazards for […]
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