Tag: US Environmental Protection Agency
On environmental protection, Biden’s election will mean a 180-degree turn from...
Janet McCabe, Indiana University
The Trump administration has waged what I and many other legal experts view as an all-out assault on the nation’s environmental...
Why California is banning chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide: 5 questions answered
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
Editor’s note: California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental...
EPA’s proposed ‘secret science’ rule directly threatens children’s health
Gabriel Filippelli, IUPUI
The Trump administration is working to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and...
The EPA disbanded our clean air science panel. We met anyway...
H. Christopher Frey, North Carolina State University
Since 1980, emissions of six common air pollutants have decreased by 67%, thanks largely to government regulation. At...
The US drinking water supply is mostly safe, but that’s not...
Joan Rose, Michigan State University
Most Americans take clean drinking water for granted as a convenience of modern life. The United States has one of...
As air pollution increases in some US cities, the Trump administration...
Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Barbara Turpin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Air pollution kills. In the United...
EPA’s plan to regulate chemical contaminants in drinking water is a...
Laurel Schaider, Harvard University
After more than a year of community meetings and deliberations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced in February 2019 that it...
Why the EPA’s ‘secret science’ proposal alarms public health experts
Bernard Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
Later this month, the EPA could finalize a controversial rule to limit what scientific research the agency can use in...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
