#Tire Makers Say They’re Not Liable for Waterway #Pollution Because It Takes Years
Multiple states have asked the #EPA to ban a #chemical in tires that has been found to kill wild salmon. https://www.thedrive.com/news/tire-makers-say-theyre-not-liable-for-waterway-pollution-because-it-takes-years
The #EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
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Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, #Kentucky, remains polluted.
The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.
#Pollution #Environment #Climate #CleanAir #CleanWater #Cancer #News #Science #Law
Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
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Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies.
Her bosses halted her work.
As the #EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking #water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.
#News #Science #Chemistry #Safety #Environment #Minnesota #PFAS #ForeverChemicals
9 things you need to know about the inside story of how 3M allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic.
#News #ForeverChemicals #Safety #3M #EPA #PFAS #PFOS
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-3m-pfos-forever-chemicals-investigation
#EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From #Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.
Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response.
#News #Science #Retaliation #Government #Environment #Safety #Whistleblower #Trump #Project2025
#EPA Says It Plans to Withdraw Approval for Chevron’s Plastic-Based Fuels That Are Likely to Cause #Cancer
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The decision comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a cancer risk more than 1 million times higher than the agency usually considers acceptable.
#News #Chevron #Plastic #Environment #Health #Government #Climate #Chemicals
Under #Trump, #EPA scientists say managers encouraged them to delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including #cancer, miscarriage and neurological problems, from their reports. And in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves.
#News #Science #Environment #Health #Government
(Published Sept. 2024) https://propub.li/3Zx4ljp
Windkraftwerke einfach pflanzen
Die 1. Folge @rebootpolitics im neuen Jahr ist endlich draußen \o/
Dieses Mal sprechen @zwecki und ich über folgende Themen:
die Urteile im Fall #Pelicot, unseren Demotag bei #Riesa1101, den #Bombenfund in #Dresden und den IT-Ausfall bei der Stadt, die #ePa, das #VW-Datenleck, die neue Betrugsmasche mit dem #Paypal-Gastzutritt, #Zuckerbergs Pläne für #Meta und sein großes Vorbild #Musk, einen rechten Ex-Richter und jetzt Abteilungsleiter im Justizministerium in #Thüringen, das geplante TV-Duell mit Rechtsextremen bei den #ÖRR, unsere Beobachtungen zur #Bundestagswahl, wie die #AfD & #CDU gemeinsam gegen #Bürgergeld-Empfänger*innen arbeiten und die Stärkung des #BVerfG.
https://podcasts.homes/@rebootpolitics/episodes/windkraftwerke-einfach-pflanzen/activity
Judge Blocks #Trump Administration From Terminating $14 Billion in 'Green Bank' Grants
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from terminating $14 billion in grants awarded to three #climate groups by the #Biden administration
#law #ClimateCrisis #DOGE #TrumpPurge #EPA #Citibank #ClimateUnitedFund #ClimateSolutions
https://apnews.com/article/epa-green-bank-zeldin-climate-trump-380000b014480350b35b7b53bd14e277
When Trump took office, the administration set up a tip line for employees to identify and assist in slashing programs focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.
Not one of the EPA’s more than 15,000 employees used it, ProPublica learned via a public records request.
https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-diversity-initiatives-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump’s #EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars—& thousands of lives.
When the head of the EPA announced a wide-ranging rollback of #environmental #regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of #ClimateChange *religion*” [whatever that is] & introduce a “Golden Age”for the American economy.
What Lee Zeldin didn’t mention: how ending the rules could have devastating consequences to human #health.
#Trump #PublicHealth #law
https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea45
An EPA complaint filed under the Biden administration alleged that a harmful disinfectant was being used without proper protection at an ICE facility in California.
Last week, the case — filed against the GEO Group, a major Trump donor — was dropped without explanation.
Pure idiocy
#EPA Says It Will Eliminate Its #Scientific #Research Arm
The decision comes after a #SCOTUS ruling allowing the #Trump admin to slash the federal work force & dismantle agencies.
#science #Climate #ClimateCrisis #idiocracy #law #UnitedStates #BrainDrain
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/climate/epa-firings-scientific-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.l81V.O4DgmQBqHXzk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Keep ‘em coming
“More than 270 #EPA workers signed a letter on Monday denouncing what they described as the #Trump administration’s efforts to politicize, dismantle and sideline the main federal agency tasked with protecting the environment and public health.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/climate/epa-employees-warning-letter.html
Open letter from #EPA employees says their boss has
has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)."
https://electrek.co/2025/07/01/hundreds-of-epa-employees-have-asked-their-boss-lee-zeldin-to-stop-lying/
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS.
Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in funding for “forever chemicals” research.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-pfas-drinking-water?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Environment #EPA #PFAS #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals #Trump
But sure let’s shut down the #EPA
4 #radioactive #wasp nests have been discovered at a #SouthCarolina #nuclear facility, according to federal ofcls.
The first nest, which was found by workers at the Savannah River Site early last month, was recently disclosed in a report from the Dept of #Energy, which owns the site. The facility, near Aiken, SC, produced material for nuclear weapons throughout the Cold War.
3 additional nests have since been discovered at the site.
