Tag: US Environmental Protection Agency
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...
Cutting pollution in the Chesapeake Bay has helped underwater grasses rebound
Bill Dennison, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Robert J. Orth, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Seagrasses are the “coastal canaries” of oceans...
Nutrient pollution: Voluntary steps are failing to shrink algae blooms and...
Donald Scavia, University of Michigan
Summer is the season for harmful algae blooms in many U.S. lakes and bays. They occur when water bodies become...
History shows that stacking federal science advisory committees doesn’t work
Donald Boesch, University of Maryland
Scientists are busy people, but every year thousands donate many hours of their time without payment to advise Congress and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
