WASHINGTON – Three environmental groups, along with a naturalist in Maine who leads whale watch tours, are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s creation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument. Fishing groups sued earlier…
Expert BlogMiriam Rotkin-Ellman, Dr. Jennifer Sass
Toxic pesticide residues on food will remain a threat to children’s health as a result of the Trump administration’s reversal of the proposed ban on chlorpyrifos – a pesticide linked to increased risk of learning disabilities, behavioral problems, and autism.
Last night, the Trump administration rejected a proposed ban on the toxic pesticide chlorpyrifos, leaving California kids and communities at risk of exposure to this chemical in food, water and the air.
President Trump instructed the Interior Department to rescind a rule designed to protect the refuge system from destructive oil and gas drilling practices.
President Trump acted today to derail the effort to overhaul a broken federal coal leasing program that’s short-changed taxpayers more than $30 billion. He did so by issuing an Executive Order that would lift the moratorium on new leasing enacted…