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EPA Boosts Toxic Air Pollution Safeguards at Coal Plants

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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration today announced important new technology updates to the Environmental Protection Agency's Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for power plants that burn coal and oil, strengthening the limit on toxic particulate matter for all plants…

NRDC: EPA Issues Power Plant Standards

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WASHINGTON – The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency released new pollution standards for power plants, addressing one of the largest sources of carbon, air and water pollution in the nation. These four separate EPA rules cover: carbon emissions, toxic air…

Residents Still Waiting for Flint to Replace All Lead Pipes on 10-Year Anniversary of Water Crisis

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DETROIT, Mich. – A decade after the Flint water crisis began and more than seven years after a major settlement was reached in the landmark citizen suit against the City of Flint and Michigan state officials, the City of Flint…

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Court Orders Seafood Import Ban to Save Mexico’s Vaquita Porpoise

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NEW YORK— Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. As few as…

Pruitt Moves to End Protections from Waste Dumping

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WASHINGTON - In his latest attempt to save his job, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced efforts today to limit EPA’s ability to stop highly destructive activities such as mountaintop-removal coal mining from destroying streams, estuaries or other rich…

EPA’s Science Advisers Question Pruitt’s Plan to Censor Science

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WASHINGTON - Following a flood of criticisms from the public, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Scientific Advisory Board said today that it should review Scott Pruitt’s plan on “secret science.” The decision follows a detailed critique of Pruitt’s proposal from a…

New EPA Guidelines Will Worsen Air Pollution Across the U.S.

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WASHINGTON - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt today issued a memorandum that will allow industrial polluters to significantly increase air pollution that threatens public health nationwide.

Trump, Zinke Escalate War on Our Monuments

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WASHINGTON - Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke released a long-withheld report on national monuments today, in which he called for President Trump to roll back protections for some of the nation’s most cherished public lands and waters. Zinke recommended opening the…

Commerce Ducks Public in Reporting on Drilling and Marine Areas

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WASHINGTON - Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reportedly has submitted an analysis to White House officials on the potential for oil and gas development in some of the nation’s most cherished and protected publicly owned waters. The move comes after extensive…

Pruitt Purges Independent Scientists to Make America Toxic Again

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt today announced a new policy to exclude any scientists who receive a research grant from EPA – typically academic scientists not affiliated with private companies – from serving on EPA science panels and advisory…

NRDC, Partners FOIA Zinke’s Undisclosed Monument Rollbacks Report

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WASHINGTON – The Natural Resources Defense Council has joined with Earthjustice and Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance to request, under the Freedom of Information Act, that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke release his secret recommendations for reducing protections for certain public lands…