Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt today announced a 12-month extension for implementation of the revised final Certification and Training of Pesticide Applicators (C&T) rule. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-extends-timeline-pesticide-applicators-rule
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund Meet some questionable people with power over health and environmental policies in Trump’s administration – including the president himself. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/316276334/0/edf/blogs/feed~Conflicts-of-interest-taint-Trumps-environmental-picks-Top-examples
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The rejected attempt by the administration and Senate Republicans to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s methane pollution rule is a resounding triumph of cooler heads over rank ideology and special interests. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/316206902/0/edf/blogs/feed~Methane-rule-endures-common-sense-prevails
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Senators voted 51 to 49 to block a measure that would have undone a regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/regulations-methane-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service RICHLAND, Washington, May 9, 2017 (ENS) – The U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations Office declared an emergency at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation at 8:30 this morning after a cave-in of a 20-foot section of a tunnel hundreds of feet long that is used to store contaminated materials. Read […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – In an effort to restore Superfund cleanup to its rightful place at the center of the U.S. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-announces-new-directive-prioritize-superfund-cleanups
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Florida Governor Rick Scott met on Wednesday to discuss water policy and other issues vitally important to Florida, its environment, and its economy. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-administrator-pruitt-and-governor-scott-discuss-floridas-environment-and-economy-0
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The announcement encouraged advocates of the landmark accord, who hope that President Trump’s fellow heads of state can pressure him to remain in the pact. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/trump-climate-pact.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service TOKYO, Japan, May 9, 2017 (ENS) – Firefighters have been battling a wildfire in an area contaminated with radiation near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant that melted down after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami off the northeast coast of Japan. Read the full article at: http://ens-newswire.com/2017/05/09/fire-near-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant-extinguished/
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment With the Trump administration still undecided about the Paris climate accord, Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson is to head to a meeting of the Arctic Council in Alaska. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/arctic-nations-to-meet-amid-unsettled-us-stance-on-climate-change.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The Paris accord provides its members with more flexibility than the earlier Kyoto Protocol, an argument for those who want the United States to remain in the deal. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/paris-climate-agreement-kyoto-protocol.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt today announced that EPA has signed a proposed rulemaking to approve North Dakota’s application to implement and enforce its own Class VI Underground Injection Control (UIC) program. Read the full article at: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-empowers-state-regulators-encourages-energy-innovation-signing-proposed-rule
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army sent a letter to governors today soliciting input from states on a new definition of protected waters that is in-line with a Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion in the 2006 Rapanos v. Read the full article […]
Published by the Environmental News Service SEATTLE, Washington, May 8, 2017 (ENS) – Twenty-six activists were arrested today as local indigenous leaders and Seattle climate activists disrupted business at 13 Chase Bank branches across Seattle in a major escalation in their campaign to keep banks from funding projects catastrophic to the climate and to indigenous […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Researchers focused on warmer weather that keeps the tundra from freezing until later, allowing processes that release carbon dioxide to continue longer. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/alaska-carbon-dioxide-co2-tundra.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Politics intruded on climate science in Australia. The scientists fought back, led by John Church, a leading world expert on sea level rise. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/climate/a-parable-from-down-under-for-us-climate-scientists.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment A spokesman for the agency’s administrator said he would consider replacing the academic scientists with representatives from industries the agency is supposed to regulate. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/07/us/politics/epa-dismisses-members-of-major-scientific-review-board.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental Defense Fund The Trump administration has already cancelled or sought to undermine 23 rules that protect our health and environment – but the president is hungry for more. Read the full article at: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/310419273/0/edf/blogs/feed~Trump-asked-industry-which-environmental-rules-to-target-next-Here-are-of-their-most-outrageous-requests
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Natural selection can’t explain this. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/opinion/sunday/are-these-birds-too-sexy-to-survive.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Published by the Environmental News Service BERLIN, Germany, May 5, 2017 (ENS) – The clock cannot be rewound and globalization reversed, said Germany’s Federal Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble at the B20 Dialogue Forum in Berlin on Tuesday. Together we can shape it for the better, and the G20 is the most effective format in which […]