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States Can Act Now to Create Workplace Heat Standards

BackgrounderUnited StatesJuanita Constible
There are several pathways to heat standards, which vary by the different buckets of state plan states and territories.

Trump EPA Rejects Hawaiʻi's Clean Air Plan, Preventing Utility's Own Requests to Retire Aging Oil-Burning Plants

Press ReleaseHonolulu
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency finalized its rejection of Hawaiʻi's Regional Haze State Implementation Plan on Friday.

House Transportation Bill Would Stick Americans With New Fees, Higher Costs

Press ReleaseWashington, D.C.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee released legislation that would set priorities and funding for federally funded transportation over the next five years.

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Zinke Move Threatens Western Sage Grouse to Advance Oil and Gas Leasing

Press ReleaseUnited States
In a sweeping decision that threatens massive swaths of land, hundreds of species and precious wildlife habitat, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today moved to roll back a conservation plan for the greater sage grouse on western U.S. lands.

Sanderson Farms Commits to Improving Antibiotics Use in Chicken

Press ReleaseMississippi
Sanderson Farms, Inc.—the third-largest chicken producer in the nation—today announced it will stop using two medically important antibiotics unnecessarily in its chickens by March 1, 2019, instead reserving them only to treat sick animals or to control a disease in…

Canada Urged to Expand Fisheries Closures to Save North Atlantic Right Whale

Press ReleaseCanada
Wildlife and animal-protection groups submitted recommendations today urging Canada’s fishery management agency to continue and expand protections for critically imperiled North Atlantic right whales. Following an unprecedented 12 right whale deaths in Canadian waters in 2017, Fisheries and Oceans Canada…

FDA Bans 7 Cancer-Causing Food Additives

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today effectively banned seven cancer-causing chemicals added to a variety of food and beverages for artificial flavoring—from ice cream and baked goods, to gum and beer.

Congress Set To Attack American Wildlife This Week

Press ReleaseUnited States
This week Congress will turn its attention to a series of bills that threaten to undermine the Endangered Species Act. Today, the House Natural Resources Committee is holding a legislative hearing on a suite of nine bills that would weaken…

EPA Fights Court Order to Finalize Ban on Pesticide Toxic to Kids

Press ReleaseUnited States
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today asked the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a decision ordering the agency to ban chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to learning disabilities in children—from use on produce sold in the U.S.