WASHINGTON – 77 million people—roughly a quarter of the U.S. population—spread across all 50 states were served by water systems reporting violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act in 2015, according to a report issued today by the Natural Resources…
Shown to be toxic to kids, chlorpyrifos is nevertheless still being sprayed on crops across the country—and making its way into our bodies. So why has the EPA refused to ban it?
WASHINGTON – Congress has reached agreement to fund the government through September, allowing the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Energy and Interior to escape – for now -- the devastating budgets cuts sought by President Trump that would…
Clean energy keeps setting records, cleaner vehicles are coming to major markets around the world, and more surprising headlines as Trump continues to try to destroy U.S. climate leadership.
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has directed his agency to conduct a hurried review of how environmental protection standards and clean energy incentives are apparently threatening to bring our power grid to its knees. That action shows either a lack…
At odds with its past practice of posting images capturing the majesty of our nation’s natural heritage, the BLM has recently uploaded only photos highlighting strip mining, coal extraction, and oil and gas drilling activities.
WASHINGTON - President Trump signed an executive order today to open up large swaths of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans that former President Obama had removed from oil and gas leasing, along with other coastal areas.
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