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Jury Slams Bayer-Monsanto in Latest Roundup Cancer Trial
Plaintiffs awarded more than $2 billion in damages.
Bipartisan Bills Would Require Coordinated Cleanup of PFAS Chemicals at Federal Facilities
A bipartisan group of senators and representatives introduced legislation today to improve cooperation between state regulators and federal agencies, including the Pentagon, to address PFAS...
Duke CEO Threatens Action Against South Carolina Customers After Officials Vote Down Steep Rate Hike
The head of Duke Energy, the largest investor-owned electric utility in the country, threatened to pull back future investments in customer services in South Carolina after state regulators voted to...
Gov. Newsom Bans Use of Brain-Damaging Pesticide In California
In a major move to protect California children, farm workers and their families, the administration of Gov. Gavin Newsom announced today it will ban the use of a toxic pesticide shown to cause brain...
NYT: EPA Brass Ignored Agency Scientists’ Calls for Asbestos Ban
Top political appointees at the Environmental Protection Agency ignored calls by agency scientists and lawyers to implement an outright ban of asbestos, according to internal memos obtained by the...
Mapping the PFAS Contamination Crisis: New Data Show 610 Sites in 43 States
EPA Seeks Public Comment on Use of Monsanto’s Weedkiller, Glyphosate on Oats Used in Foods Marketed to Kids
The Environmental Protection Agency is formally requesting feedback on a petition submitted by EWG and food companies seeking to significantly limit the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in...
Duke-Backed Bill That Could Jack Up Rates for NC Ratepayers Passes State Senate
Legislation pushed by Duke Energy that could relax North Carolina regulators' oversight of electricity rates passed the state Senate Thursday, sponsored by lawmakers who have received hefty campaign...
Why Duke, America’s Biggest Electric Utility, Is Also the Worst for the Environment
Duke Energy is the largest investor-owned electric utility in the U.S. But a new report by Environmental Working Group reveals another distinction: Its puny investments in renewable energy, schemes to...
Federal Data: In a First, Renewable Energy Passes Coal as Source of Electricity
In a historic tipping point, renewable energy sources this month will generate more electricity in the U.S. than coal-fired power plants for the first time, new federal data show.
Trump EPA Sides With Bayer/Monsanto Over Science, Claims Cancer-Causing Weedkiller ‘Safe’
The Environmental Protection Agency said today the active ingredient in Bayer-Monsanto's carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup is safe, ignoring a growing body of independent research showing a strong...
EWG: A Novel Method for Assessing Combined Risk of Multiple Tap Water Pollutants
The array of toxic pollutants in California drinking water could cause more than 15,000 cases of cancer, according to a peer-reviewed EWG study that is the first ever to assess the cumulative risk...
Lawmakers Introduce Bill Forcing EPA To Set Legal Limit for All PFAS in Drinking Water
A bipartisan bill introduced in the House today would require the Environmental Protection Agency to set a health-protective legal limit in drinking water for the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as...
Bipartisan Bill To Protect Californians From Toxic Jewelry Clears Key Committee
Bipartisan legislation to protect Californians, especially children, from jewelry tainted with highly toxic heavy metals sailed through a key committee Wednesday.
EPA’s Proposed PFAS Guidance Falls Far Short on Public Health Protection and Cleanup
The draft interim recommendations for cleanup of the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS, announced today by Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler, are a woefully inadequate...
Iowa’s Private Wells Overrun With Agricultural Contaminants
Former EPA Head Scott Pruitt Hired as Lobbyist To Save Coal in Indiana. (He Can’t.)
A major coal mining company in Indiana has hired former Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt to lobby against plans to close several coal-fired power plants in the state.
U.S. Court Orders Trump EPA to Decide Fate of Brain-Damaging Pesticide
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today gave Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler 90 days to decide whether his agency will ban the use of the brain-damaging pesticide...
EPA Asbestos Rule ‘Half Step’ That Leaves Deadly Carcinogen Legal
The rule announced today by the Environmental Protection Agency claiming to strengthen the agency's ability to restrict certain uses of the notorious carcinogen asbestos falls short of what is...
Senators Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Assist Vets, Military Families Exposed to PFAS Chemicals
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) have reintroduced a bill to help veterans, service members and their families with health problems potentially triggered by exposure to the toxic...