As Biden Dispatches Disaster Relief to East Palestine, Trump Takes Credit
Gene J. Puskar/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday evening, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the “breaking” news that father would visit East Palestine, Ohio, next week, in the wake of the train derailment there whose aftermath has cloaked the region in a toxic…
What Will Brazil Do With Illegally Trafficked American Garbage?
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.This story was produced in collaboration with Columbia Journalism Investigations and UOL. It was republished in partnership with Mother Jones. A green squeegee. A plastic bottle half-filled with neon yellow liquid. Used geriatric diapers. Latex gloves.…
EPA Has Finally Opened Civil Rights Investigations Over Pollution in “Cancer Alley”
Emily Kask/AFP/Getty Images This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has opened a series of civil rights investigations into state agencies in Louisiana to examine whether permits granted in the highly polluted industrial corridor, known locally as Cancer Alley, have violated Black citizens’…
Virginia Senate Panel Rejects Trump EPA Chief for Top Environmental Post
Drew Angerer/Getty This story was originally published by Huffpost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democratic state senators in Virginia took a first step Tuesday toward blocking Andrew Wheeler, Donald Trump’s controversial second head of the Environmental Protection Agency and a former coal lobbyist, from becoming the state’s top environmental official. A Senate committee…
Biden’s Climate Plans Are Colliding With Trump’s Judiciary
Cranes at an oil industry support facility in Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg/Getty Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk…
A New Bill Wants the EPA to Shield Drinking Water From “Forever Chemicals”
ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.A new bill would require the Environmental Protection Agency to do much more to regulate PFAs, a class of artificial chemicals that never fully break down and have made their…