"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ditched a detailed plan that would have forced refiners to blend more biofuels into their gasoline and diesel in 2019 to compensate for volumes likely to be exempted under the agency’s small refinery hardship waiver program, according to newly released EPA documents."
"David Schnare’s conservative legal group seeks to expose science fraud. But it appears to be imploding amid allegations of financial mismanagement, attempted extortion and faked documents."
"The electric power industry, which waged an epic legal battle against EPA's air toxics standards earlier this decade, now wants the regulations kept largely intact and is urging the agency to complete a required follow-up review by a 2020 deadline."
"Hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto Co by cancer survivors or families of those who died can proceed to trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday, finding there was sufficient evidence for a jury to hear the cases that blame the company’s glyphosate-containing weed-killer for the disease."
"House Republicans on Wednesday voted to weaken a much-praised 1976 law that helped revive the commercial fishing industry in the United States and bring its fisheries back from the brink of collapse."
"A federal judge is suggesting that EPA provide speedier public access to the agency chief's calendar, even if the type of access requested is not compelled by the Freedom of Information Act."
"Acting Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler told agency employees Wednesday that he would value their input even as he would seek to advance President Trump’s agenda, saying, “When it comes to leadership, you can’t lead unless you listen.”
"As US officials decide against banning product, producer Uralasbest puts Trump ‘seal of approval’ on pallets".
"The 1,000-foot-long vessels for hauling liquefied natural gas can cut through ice up to 7 feet thick."
"Replacing plastic straws with plastic lids won't clean up the ocean. But that's not really the point."
