Arkansas Tried to Restrict the Use of This Controversial Pesticide. Monsanto Fought Back and Won.
Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Arkansas regulators voted last Wednesday to relax restrictions on the controversial weedkiller dicamba, despite testimony from top scientists and scores of concerned citizens who urged them to reject the move in a public hearing. As reported last year by FERN and Reveal, dicamba…
Andrew Wheeler Was Just Confirmed as the Nation’s 15th EPA Administrator
The Senate voted 52-47 to confirm the former coal lobbyist, who has served as acting EPA chief since former Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid ethics scandals last July. In a statement posted to Twitter, Wheeler said he was “deeply honored” and looking forward to carrying out President Donald Trump’s agenda. I am deeply honored, and…
Stop Freaking Out About the Future of Climate Change and Start Worrying About the Present
VCG/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. While there are a lot of alarm bells sounding over how climate change will affect marine ecosystems and the world’s seafood supply in the future, there’s been much less attention paid to the effects it’s already had on them. In fact, the National Oceanic…
Thanks to This Advocacy Group, the Trump Administration Believes a Little Radiation Is Good for You
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering formal proposals that would abandon current regulations that require licensees, such as the one pictured here, to keep human exposure to radiation as low as reasonably achievable. Nuclear Regulatory Commission/Creative Commons Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since World War II, virtually every American business…
Hundreds of Young Protesters Confront McConnell Over Green New Deal
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by the Guardian. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Hundreds of youth climate activists marched on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell’s Washington office and 42 of them were arrested by police, according to organizers. The protesters—who…
Holy, Toledo! This Ohio City Is Voting to Give Legal Rights to a Lake
Lake Erie nayuco/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Toledo, Ohio, a city of nearly 300,000 situated on the western edge of Lake Erie, may not seem like a mecca of progressive environmental policy. But on Tuesday, the city’s denizens will vote on a radical ballot measure to recognize that a…