"Trump’s ‘Scorched Earth’ EPA Budget Draws Swift Reactions"
"No agency in the federal government fared worse under Thursday’s proposed budget than the Environmental Protection Agency."
Source: Washington Post, 03/17/2017
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Interior Department To Withdraw Obama-Era Fracking Rule, Filings Reveal
"The Trump administration plans to withdraw and rewrite a 2015 rule aimed at limiting hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” on public lands, the Interior Department indicated in court filings Wednesday."
Source: Washington Post, 03/16/2017
Unsealed Documents Raise New Safety Doubts on Monsanto Weedkiller Roundup
"The reputation of Roundup, whose active ingredient is the world’s most widely used weed killer, took a hit on Tuesday when a federal court unsealed documents raising questions about its safety and the research practices of its manufacturer, the chemical giant Monsanto."
Source: NY Times, 03/16/2017
"Chemicals: EPA Heeds Industry Concerns, Freezes Safety Regs"
"U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has frozen implementation of updated safety regulations for thousands of chemical plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities, saying the delay is needed to consider an industry coalition's petition to scrap the new rules."
Source: Greenwire, 03/15/2017
Roundup's Active Ingredient Facing Wave Of Suits As Alleged Carcinogen
"Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s marquee product, Roundup, is coming under fire from hundreds of legal challenges across the U.S., with individuals alleging that the herbicide is carcinogenic and linked to cases of non-Hodgkin lymphoma."
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 03/14/2017
Families Worry Over Water Contamination At Former New Hampshire Air Base
"PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — The Pease International Tradeport, which features an airport, hundreds of businesses and several day care centers, has been called a textbook example of how to redevelop an air base. But many who worked or had their children looked after there are coming to terms with a hidden risk: drinking water contaminated by military firefighting foam that contained perfluorinated compounds, or PFCs."
Source: AP, 03/06/2017
"Tightened EPA Chemical Safety Regs At Risk"
"Industry is pressing Congress to ditch safety upgrades made in wake of deadly West, Texas, plant explosion".
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 03/01/2017
"Firefighters and Cancer: Is A Risky Job Even Riskier?"
"Sitting before the D.C. Council in a crisp blue dress shirt, Lt. Preston L. Williams Jr. recounted the day he was first diagnosed with the cancer that was slowly killing him."
Source: Washington Post, 02/27/2017
Climate-Friendlier Air Conditioning Chemicals Hard to Find, Study Shows
"When nearly 200 countries agreed last October to dramatically reduce their reliance on climate change-polluting chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in air conditioning and refrigeration, the hunt for alternatives was already underway. Now, a new study in the journal Nature Communications that comprehensively explored pure liquid options found only 27 candidates, and problems with all of them."
Source: InsideClimate News, 02/23/2017
Lead Ammunition Poisons Wildlife But Too Expensive To Change: Hunters
"On the day before President Trump's inauguration, the outgoing Obama administration passed a last-minute directive, banning the use of lead ammunition and fishing sinkers on federal land."
Source: NPR, 02/20/2017
