EPA

Perhaps Senators Who Are Uncomfortable With Trump Turning The U.S. Into A Banana Republic, Should Stop Behaving Like Banana Republicans

Nancy Ohanian: Emperor With Fig LeafYesterday, Bernie was at an AFL-CIO Labor Day breakfast in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he told the crowd that Señor Trumpanzee is a "pathological liar." What's the difference between a pathological liar and a congenital liar? Bernie also reminded the folks that Trump "works night and day on behalf of his fellow billionaires...

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by NoahWay back in 1973, conservative President Richard Nixon's Environmental Protection Agency's (Let that one sink in. He created it.My how times have changed!) Clean Air Act banned most spray asbestos products that had been used for fireproofing and insulation after it was found to be causing serious lung and respiratory ailments, including Mesothelioma, lung cancer and other chronic respiratory conditions.

Court Orders EPA to Stop Sales of Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Kids

(CD) — In a “major victory for public health,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Thursday ruled the Trump administration illegally blocked a ban on chlorpyrifos—a pesticide linked to brain development delays in children and nervous systems issues for all people and animals exposed to it—and ordered that it be outlawed within 60 days. “Children, farmworkers, rural families, […]

A ‘Wreck for Consumers and the Planet’ as EPA Moves to Gut Clean Car Standards

(CD) — President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Transportation Department on Wednesday formally unveiled their long-anticipated plan to gut Obama-era fuel efficiency standards, a regulatory rollback environmentalists quickly denounced as “a disastrous wreck for consumers and the planet.” “We remember the thick smog that used to choke our cities and we refuse to return to those times,” Earthjustice attorney […]

People Expect The New EPA Administrator To Be Less Incompetent And Distracted Than Pruitt-- And That's Not A Good Thing

Worse than Pruitt?Yesterday, the New York Times reported that "Scott Pruitt’s brief, tumultuous tenure as the head of the EPA has left him disgraced in the eyes of many in Washington and across the country. But it may not have done him much harm in his home state. Though a comeback for Mr.