EPA

Could Artificial Turf Actually Cause Cancer?

A federal study on the potential link between cancer and artificial turf – particularly the crumb rubber variety – has been approved by the Obama administration.
The study will examine the turf, which is composed of recycled tires and is spread across fields to make them softer and to provide traction for football players, hockey players, and other athletes.

US EPA Misses Deadline for Key Assessments on these 3 Toxic Pesticides

The world is already well aware of the many nasty effects of pesticides, but in missing its own risk assessment deadline in 2015 for atrazine, glyphosate, and imidacloprid, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sends a clear message to those concerned about biological diversity and human health. If the EPA isn’t doing the business of pushing biotech’s agenda, the agency isn’t interested in protecting life.

Safe? Nuclear Waste Site in St. Louis Sits Above Underground Fire

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is ordering an isolation barrier to be built at the West Lake Landfill in St. Louis, Missouri where nuclear waste dating back to the 1973 Manhattan Project was illegally dumped 4 years ago.
An underground fire has been burning beneath the landfill some 1,200 feet away from the adjoining Bridgeton Landfill. [1]
EPA spokeswoman Angela Breese said the barrier “will essentially be an underground wall.”

U.S. Watchdog Investigations Imperiled by Obama Fixation on Government Secrecy

By Steve Straehley and Danny Biederman | AllGov | December 2, 2015 The Obama administration, by consistently refusing to turn over documents and information, has gone out of its way to make it more difficult for the inspectors general of executive branch agencies to do their jobs. The concept of inspectors general investigating executive branch […]