WASHINGTON – The Trump Administration today signaled its plan to drastically slash the Environmental Protection Agency's budget―by as much as 24 percent, according to the press.
CHICAGO – Legislation introduced today will help both Minnesota farmers and beekeepers by closing a loophole allowing unchecked use of bee-toxic pesticides. Under current Minnesota law, seeds treated with neonicotinoid insecticides (neonics) are not technically counted as a pesticide application…
Republicans on Capitol Hill are busy paving the path for a foreign mining company to destroy the world’s greatest wild salmon fishery in Bristol Bay, Alaska – over the opposition of the people of Alaska.
WASHINGTON (February 24, 2017) – President Trump today signed an executive order directing each administrative agency and department to designate a “regulatory reform officer” and to establish a “regulatory reform task force,” according to press reports. The order implements the…
Today, a pre-eminent think tank in the United Kingdom, Chatham House, issued a seminal report challenging a fundamental assumption underlying European renewable energy policy: that burning forest biomass to produce electricity is “carbon neutral.” The report Woody Biomass for Power…
NEW YORK – Electricity generation from the aging and problem-plagued Indian Point Energy Center (IPEC) nuclear plant north of New York City can be replaced with increased amounts of energy efficiency and renewable energy sources coupled with transmission system upgrades…
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