"The Department of Yes"
"How Pesticide Companies Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America"
Source: The Intercept, 07/01/2021
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"Can We Trust Corporations To Deal With Their Own Waste?"
"A federal bill that includes “extended producer responsibility” for waste is dividing environmentalists and renewing questions about corporate support."
Source: HuffPost, 06/25/2021
Pollution Linked to Higher Cancer Rates in Low-Income La. Communities
"A new Tulane study finds that air pollution could be causing higher rates of cancer in low-income communities in Louisiana. Louisiana has the 7th highest cancer rate in the United States."
Source: WWNO, 06/25/2021
EPA Inaction Blamed as Bees Suffer 2nd Highest Colony Losses on Record
"Beekeepers this year in the United States reported the second highest annual loss of managed honey bee colonies since records began in 2006, according to results of a nationwide survey released Wednesday."
Source: Common Dreams, 06/25/2021
"Hungry Grasshoppers Spurred By US Drought Threaten Rangeland"
"Federal agriculture officials are launching what could become their largest grasshopper-killing campaign since the 1980s amid an outbreak of the drought-loving insects that cattle ranchers fear will strip bare public and private rangelands."
Source: AP, 06/25/2021
New Research Raises Ozone Depletion Alarm Over Arctic, Too
"Warming of the surface of the Arctic is matched by a colder polar vortex high in the atmosphere, which is speeding the breakdown of the Earth’s shield against ultraviolet rays."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/24/2021
Watchdog Calls On Pentagon To Detail PFAS Chemicals' Cleanup Expenses
"The Government Accountability Office (GAO) called on the Department of Defense (DOD) this week to detail its cleanup expenses for “forever chemicals” from water supply sources near military bases."
Source: The Hill, 06/24/2021
Maine Enacts Bills To Tackle Pollution From ‘Forever Chemicals’
"Maine lawmakers have passed a sweeping set of bills aimed at addressing the growing problems posed by “forever chemicals” that have shut down several farms and contaminated dozens of private wells across the state."
Source: Portland Press Herald, 06/23/2021
"EPA Can Keep Formaldehyde Health Assessment Under Wraps"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no obligation to share its study of the risks of inhaling formaldehyde with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, because the document sought is only a draft, a Washington federal court ruled."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/22/2021
St. Croix Refinery That Rained Oil On Neighbors Shuts Down Indefinitely
"Limetree Bay, a massive oil refinery in the Caribbean, announced Monday that it is ceasing operations following a number of catastrophic errors that rained oil droplets on St. Croix, sent residents to emergency rooms after noxious gas releases and raised fears among homeowners that their drinking water was laced with toxic chemicals."
Source: Washington Post, 06/22/2021
