After passing a trillion-dollar tax scam that gave huge benefits to wealthy corporations like oil companies and will leave the federal government running huge deficits for the next decade, suddenly President Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are trying…
The Environmental Protection Agency today, in a notice of proposed rulemaking, moved to downplay the benefits of public health and environmental safeguards.
New oil development has no place in sensitive wetland habitats in the Florida Everglades. The Burnett Oil Company claimed it could explore for oil in the Big Cypress National Preserve with no significant, long-term impacts to sensitive wetlands. But these…
Scientists are still trying to understand what paralyzed and eventually killed more than 30 critically endangered Verreaux’s sifakas in Madagascar this spring.
Rather than match Lowe's protective action against deadly paint strippers, Home Depot said it would follow the lead of the EPA under polluter-friendly Administrator Scott Pruitt.
There are few principles as basic to Americans as the right to participate in decisions when the federal government is going to affect the environment or economy of a community. Because this is inconvenient for developers, they have enlisted the…
Roughly the same amount of medically important antibiotics is sold for use in pigs as for use in treating sick people in the U.S.—yet many diseases in herds are on the rise, according to a new report out today from…
Hurricane season has officially started, and if this year’s season causes anywhere close to the level of damage wrought by the last, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) will be pushed well beyond the breaking point. The NFIP is in…
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