WASHINGTON – The Food and Drug Administration has denied a petition by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Breast Cancer Fund, Center for Environmental Health, Center for Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest and the Environmental Working Group…
ReportKristi Pullen Fedinick, Mae Wu, Erik D. Olson
America has a drinking water crisis. An NRDC study has found that contaminants that may harm human health are found in tap water in every state in the nation.
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…
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