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INSIDE THE MASS EXODUS AT THE EPA
More than 700 workers have left the rapidly shrinking Environmental Protection Agency since President Trump took office -- including more than 200 scientists, according to a report... READ MORE›
A CIVIL RIGHTS 'EMERGENCY': JUSTICE, CLEAN AIR AND WATER IN THE AGE OF TRUMP
The roots of the environmental justice movement are diffuse, but a string of events in Houston, Texas, proved foundational... READ MORE›
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ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE, BECOMES PRIORITY UNDER TRUMP ORDER
Trump's order attempts to roll back Obama-era policies on power plant emissions limits, coal mining on federal lands, and regulations on fracking and methane... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO TAP FAST FOOD EXECUTIVE ANDY PUZDER FOR LABOR SECRETARY
Preparing to make public appearances Thursday in Ohio and Iowa, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate restaurant chain executive Andy Puzder to be labor secretary... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP 'TAKING STEPS TO ABOLISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY'
President Trump said during the campaign that he would like to abolish the EPA or 'leave a little bit'... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POLLUTION IS THE WORLD'S BIGGEST KILLER AND A THREAT TO SURVIVAL OF MANKIND, STUDY FINDS
Air pollution deaths in Southeast Asia are on track to double by 2050, he added... READ MORE›
SERIOUS FARM POLLUTION BREACHES RISE IN UK - AND MANY GO UNPROSECUTED
Environment Agency figures show severe incidents are weekly occurrence as farms struggle with cost of pollution prevention despite subsidies... READ MORE›
CROWDS GATHER WORLDWIDE TO MARCH FOR SCIENCE ON EARTH DAY
March for Science events in New York, London, Paris, Berlin see crowds gather worldwide on Earth Day... READ MORE›
US PEOPLE OF COLOR STILL MORE LIKELY TO BE EXPOSED TO POLLUTION THAN WHITE PEOPLE
We have policies in place to reduce pollution in general but we don't have policies in place on environmental justice, said Marshall... READ MORE›
TRUMP TO NOMINATE PRUITT TO LEAD U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY
The transition team statement called Pruitt "a national leader against the EPA's job-killing war on coal" who will help implement Trump's energy plan... READ MORE›
TRUMP SAYS U.S., ONE OF THE WORST CARBON POLLUTERS, IS THE 'CLEANEST' COUNTRY ON EARTH
2 in per person carbon dioxide pollution, behind Luxembourg, among 35 developed nations plus China, India and Brazil, Energy Department data show... READ MORE›
HONG KONG -- The United States says it will expand air-quality monitoring at some overseas diplomatic missions, following several years of reporting pollution data in China... READ MORE›
LOBBYIST DUBBED DR EVIL BEHIND FRONT GROUPS ATTACKING OBAMA POWER RULES
Beacon Hill received 41,500 from the Employment Policies Institute for a study of the EPA rules, according to the grants list maintained by Suffolk University... READ MORE›
POLLUTION KILLS MORE PEOPLE THAN WARS, DISASTERS, HUNGER
Photo India has the highest rate of pollution-related premature deaths... READ MORE›
TEXAS COMPANIES PENALIZED IN LESS THAN 3% OF ILLEGAL AIR POLLUTION CASES - REPORT
Texas companies involved in illegal air pollution releases were penalized by the state in fewer than 3 percent of all cases,according to a new report... READ MORE›
TWO BILLION CHILDREN BREATHE BAD AIR
While reducing outdoor air pollution is the longer term goal, immediate steps can be taken to reduce indoor air pollution... READ MORE›
'WE CAN BE BOTH PRO-JOBS AND PRO-ENVIRONMENT'
New EPA head Scott Pruitt 'We can be both pro-jobs and pro-environment'... READ MORE›
EPA LEADER TO DROP SCIENTISTS FROM ADVISORY BOARD
The decision to bar any researcher who receives EPA grant money from serving as an adviser to the agency appears to be unprecedented... READ MORE›
EPA SAYS TO TAKE TOUGHER STANCE ON AUTO EMISSIONS TESTS
We are upping our game Chris Grundler head of transportation and air quality at the Environmental Protection Agency told reporters in a teleconference... READ MORE›
GOP SUSPENDS SENATE RULES AGAIN TO APPROVE TRUMP'S EPA PICK
WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee on Thursday cleared Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency despite Democrats boycotting the vote for a second day... READ MORE›
TRUMP PICKS COAL LOBBYIST FOR EPA DEPUTY ROLE DRAWING MIXED REACTION
He also promised to pull Washington out of a global pact to fight climate change, which he did in June... READ MORE›
HOW IRAN'S ELECTIONS ARE GOING GREEN
Ali Mirchi is a research assistant professor at Department of Civil Engineering and Center for Environmental Resource Management, the University of Texas at El Paso... READ MORE›
WASTE OF RESOURCES IS BIGGEST THREAT TO PLANET, WARNS SCOTTISH ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Scotland's environment agency has warned the country's industries and farmers that their waste and inefficiency is now the biggest threat to the environment, overtaking pollution... READ MORE›
FRACKING: ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS SUE EPA IN CALL FOR STRICT RULES ON WASTE
Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico have also experienced a spike in earthquakes, because of high-volume wastewater injection wells... READ MORE›
ENTREPRENEURS SELL CANNED AUSTRALIAN AIR TO CHINESE BUYERS
YaurTwo Sydney entrepreneurs have started selling bottles of Australian air to Chinese buyers, promising a brief reprieve for residents of smoggy cities like Beijing... READ MORE›
TRUMP'S EPA PICK LONG A BACKER OF INDUSTRY DONORS AGAINST POLLUTION REGULATORS
A spokesman for Pruitt said that while the environmental unit had been closed, environmental cases continued to be handled by the state solicitor general's unit... READ MORE›
DUMP YOUR RUBBISH PROPERLY OR FACE FINES
And packaging waste recyclers Repak is also in talks with the Department of the Environment to fund inspectors in city and county councils... READ MORE›
TRUMP DESCRIBES US AS CLEANEST NATION FACTS MUDDY THE CLAIM
2 in per person carbon dioxide pollution, behind Luxembourg, among 35 developed nations plus China, India and Brazil, Energy Department data show... READ MORE›
BEYOND FLINT: POOR BLACKS, LATINOS ENDURE OVERSIZED BURDEN OF AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL WASTE AND HAZARDS
The rate of poverty in Fair Haven is estimated at 24 percent, slightly less than the rate of poverty among New Haven's 130,000 residents... READ MORE›
AMERICANS FEAR TRUMPCARE MORE THAN TERRORISM NOW
A study called The Chapman University Survey of American Fears has surveyed the fears of an average American citizen for the past four years... READ MORE›
FRANCE LAUNCHES IN-DEPTH INVESTIGATION INTO VOLKSWAGEN PRACTICES
Segolene Royal said in a statement that she had asked the United States Environmental Protection Agency for further information about the fraud committed by Volkswagen... READ MORE›
ANDREW CUOMO ADMINISTRATION NOW QUESTIONS GENERAL ELECTRIC MOVE TO END HUDSON RIVER CLEANUP
It's essential that the EPA respond to the concerns raised today by New York State and force GE to finish their cleanup of the Hudson River... READ MORE›