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Hawaii Bans Pesticide Toxic to Kids, While Pruitt’s EPA Refuses

Press ReleaseHawaii
Hawaii Governor David Ige today signed a bill that bans the use of chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities—in the state. Meanwhile, at the federal level, under Administrator Scott Pruitt’s leadership the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed a proposed nationwide…

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

Press ReleaseUnited States
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 sub-group of…

NRDC Challenges Unjustified EPA Decision to Scrap Car Standards

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Natural Resources Defense Council and six other environmental and public interest groups today filed a petition in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals challenging EPA’s finding that greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars, SUVs and pickup trucks built from…

NAFTA Ruling Forces Investigation of Tar Sands Tailing Pond Pollution

Press ReleaseCanada
The North American Free Trade Agreement’s Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) has called for an investigation of Canada’s failure to enforce the nation’s Fisheries Act with respect to toxic materials leaking from massive tar sands tailings ponds. The ruling comes…

Court Knocks Down Monsanto Challenge to California Cancer Chemicals List

Press ReleaseCalifornia
Health and environmental groups defeated an effort to exclude the use of expert scientific findings to add the controversial chemical glyphosate to California's list of carcinogens today. Monsanto had been seeking to force California to remove the herbicide from the…

NRDC to track 4 clean energy technologies Trump Administration wants to ignore

Press ReleaseUnited States
The Natural Resources Defense Council today launched a new initiative to track the historic development of wind and solar power, LED light bulbs, and electric vehicles — four highly successful clean energy technologies that have benefited from federal R&D investment—now…

Ordinance to Restrict Manganese Introduced at Chicago’s City Council

Press ReleaseChicago
The City of Chicago introduced an ordinance that provides some measures to restrict new manganese operations within city limits. While the ordinance does not cut the volume of manganese, a dangerous neurotoxin, currently stored and handled by facilities in the city, advocates…

NRDC Defends WHO’s Cancer Research Arm from GOP, Industry Attack

Press ReleaseUnited States
A GOP and agrochemical industry effort to discredit and defund the World Health Organization’s cancer research agency is a threat to public health, Dr. Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the House Science Committee…