"Glyphosate, an herbicide and the active ingredient in Monsanto Co's popular Roundup weed killer, will be added to California's list of chemicals known to cause cancer effective July 7, the state's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) said on Monday."
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff pressured the top scientist on the agency’s scientific review board to alter her congressional testimony and play down the dismissal of expert advisers, his emails show."
"India sees its future in renewable energy and supports the Paris Agreement. Trump promotes fossil fuels. Neither leader mentioned climate in their public appearance."
Even though big proposed budget cuts may be DOA for the Interior Department, it doesn't mean there aren't a wide range of land and resource-related stories emerging from the debates. The latest TipSheet sets the scene and offers a half-dozen ways to localize the Interior Department funding story.
This year’s Investigative Reporters and Editors conference in Phoenix, June 22-25, featured a sizable contingent of SEJ members, including three panels with environmental themes and another successful SEJ meet-up to introduce our organization to journalists who don’t yet know about us. Read more and see photos here.
"Advocacy groups have challenged an especially egregious ag-gag law designed to keep the public in the dark about industrial animal farming operations."
"President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has proposed scrapping key protections intended to protect shipyard and construction workers from exposure to beryllium, a toxic mineral that can cause deadly lung disease."
"To Waste Management, the nation's largest handler of garbage, the liquid that winds up at the bottom of a landfill is called 'leachate,' and it can safely be disposed of in a well that's 4,200 feet deep. But to residents of mostly rural Jackson County, the stuff is just 'garbage juice,' and it carries a toxic taint that they don't want in their drinking water."
"Legislation to ease environmental hurdles for forest-thinning projects will likely pass the House in July before facing an uncertain future in the Senate, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) said yesterday."
"An environmental group argues the agency significantly underestimates methane emissions from the oil and gas industries. The inspector general is now investigating."
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