Manufacturing giant 3M has agreed to pay up to $12.5 billion in order to settle hundreds of lawsuits that allege its ‘forever chemicals’ contaminated cities’ drinking water…
Half of States in U.S. Sue Biden Over New Rule Targeting Farmers…
A group of 24 states has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), asserting that a newly implemented environmental regulation is unlawful and would have detrimental effects on their residents…
Biden’s War on Fossil Fuels: EPA Quadruples Regulatory Cost of Carbon Emissions…
Social Cost of Carbon estimate jumps from $51 to $190 per metric ton, creating future impact for Americans’ wallets and a new headache for the oil and gas industries…
EPA Petitioned for Nationwide Ban on Natural Gas for Home Heating, Cooking…
Radical environmentalists are Technocracy’s stooges to completely deconstruct the world. Banning natural gas is suicidal, anti-civilizational and anti-human. Perhaps they would like to live as homeless in tents on Portland’s tree-lined, crime-ridden, drug-infested neighborhoods. ⁃ TN Editor…
Public Interest Groups Set to Sue U.S. EPA Over Approval for Release of GMO Mosquitoes…
Last Friday, environmental and other public interest organizations filed a formal pre-litigation notice with the Trump Administration stating their intention to sue the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its approval of the release of over a billion genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes in Florida and Texas. The open air experiment would be the first ever in […]
In a Notoriously Polluted Area of the Country, Massive New Chemical Plants Are Still Moving in…
The industrial stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, a region known as “Cancer Alley,” is one of the most highly polluted areas in the country. A ProPublica analysis using a scientific model developed by the Environmental Protection Agency shows that some of the neighborhoods where new plants are being built […]
Duke Univ to Pay Feds $112.5M for Using Fake Scientific Data to Obtain Research Grants…
Duke University has agreed to pay the government $112.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting applications and progress reports that contained falsified research on federal grants to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department announced today. “The resources utilized […]
Trump to Nominate Andrew Wheeler, Current Acting Head of EPA, to Secretary of EPA…
President Trump said he plans to nominate Andrew Wheeler, acting head of the Environmental Protection Agency, to be the EPA’s Senate-confirmed administrator. Trump made the announcement Friday during a White House ceremony for Medal of Freedom recipients. He said Wheeler “is going to be made permanent,” adding that “he’s done a fantastic job and I […]
EPA Forced to Ban Pesticides Based on ‘Secret Science’ It Wants to End…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fewer than 60 days to ban a commonly-used pesticide after a federal court ruled in favor of environmental activists in early August. The Natural Resources Defense council (NRDC) celebrated the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, arguing that EPA’s decision not to ban chlorpyrifos ignored “solid science” from its […]
EPA to Loosen Rules for Automobile Gas Mileage, Pollution…
The Trump administration is expected to announce that it will roll back automobile gas mileage and pollution standards. Automakers wanted the government to relax the current standards, which were imposed by the Obama administration to combat climate change. They say the rules will cost the industry billions of dollars and raise vehicle prices. But environmentalists […]