Harvey: ZIP Code & Race Determine Who Will Bear Climate Change Burden
"Concern continues to grow over the environmental impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Houston area, home to more than a dozen oil refineries."
Source: Democracy Now!, 01/15/2018
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"Toxic Thaw Syndrome"
"Melting permafrost carries unknown dangers for Arctic marine life."
Source: Hakai, 01/12/2018
Govt Scientists Say Controversial Pesticide Killing Endangered Salmon
"The federal government's top fisheries experts say that three widely used pesticides — including the controversial insecticide chlorpyrifos — are jeopardizing the survival of many species of salmon, as well as orcas that feed on those salmon."
Source: NPR, 01/12/2018
"Chemicals: In Reversal, EPA Limits Information On Safety Reviews"
"U.S. EPA appears to no longer be releasing preliminary assessments of potentially hazardous new chemicals or new uses of existing chemicals, according to documents reviewed by E&E News."
Source: Greenwire, 01/11/2018
Trump’s EPA Could Allow Teenage Workers To Handle Dangerous Pesticides
"If the Environmental Protection Agency follows through with a reform now under consideration, teenage farmworkers and other working minors would once again be allowed to handle dangerous pesticides while on the job."
Source: HuffPost, 01/11/2018
"The Nation’s Rivers And Streams Are Getting Dangerously Saltier"
"Nearly everywhere you turn during this frigid stretch of winter, much of the world seems covered in a layer of salt aimed at keeping our roads drivable and sidewalks free of ice. All that salt is one reason — although not the only one — that many of the nation’s rivers and streams are becoming saltier, according to new research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
Source: Washington Post, 01/09/2018
17 Ways Trump Administration Assaulted the Environment Over the Holidays
"While visions of sugarplums danced in some of our heads, the Trump administration had a different vision—of a country unbound by rules that protect people, places, wildlife and the climate. Over the past two weeks, the administration has proposed or finalized changes to how the government and the industries it regulates respond to climate change, migratory birds, clean energy, pesticides and toxic chemicals."
Source: EcoWatch, 01/04/2018
Slow Progress at Defunct Arkansas Chem Plant; Pollutants In Flood Zone
"Some officials in Phillips County say they aren’t concerned about incomplete cleanup of a chemical site in Helena-West Helena that is located in a flood-risk zone."
Source: NW Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 01/02/2018
Trump Interior Rolls Back Key Federal Land Fracking Rule
"On the last business day of the year, the Interior Department rescinded a 2015 Obama administration rule that would have set new environmental limitations on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on public lands."
Source: Washington Post, 01/02/2018
Banned From Banking Industry for Life, Pruitt Pal Finds Home at EPA
"The Environmental Protection Agency has tasked a banker who was banned from the banking industry for life with oversight of the nation’s Superfund program."
Source: The Intercept, 12/29/2017
