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A Year After EPA Puts Kids at Risk, Food Companies Can Help

Expert BlogSasha Stashwick
Today marks the one-year anniversary of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s dangerous decision to allow chlorpyrifos, a pesticide highly toxic to kids, to continue to be used on fruits and vegetables, including kid favorites like apples and oranges. The stakes are…

Congress Rejects Trump’s Dismantling of Clean Energy Funding

Expert BlogElizabeth Noll, Arjun Krishnaswami
Congress passed a spending bill to fund the government for the remainder of fiscal year 2018 that includes robust funding for clean energy innovation—and most importantly, it clears the way for the Department of Energy (DOE) to carry out an…

Replacing a Polluting Plant in Oakland with Clean Energy

Expert BlogMohit Chhabra
The Dynegy power plant, located near historic Jack London Square in Oakland, is adjacent to communities with some of the worst pollution per the California Environment Protection Agency. The jet fuel fired power plant is almost 40 years old and…

Needless Deaths: Toxic Solvents in Paint Strippers

Expert BlogUnited StatesDaniel Rosenberg, Erik D. Olson

The decision by the Trump administration to shelve a ban on the toxic solvent methylene chloride is already responsible for verifiable and actual deaths, with more almost certain to occur.