#environmentalprotectionagency — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/482238/ New Dún Laoghaire baths the only ‘poor’ bathing spot in Ireland last year #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #dublin #DúnLaoghaire #Éire #Environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #EPA #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #IE #Ireland #LatestNews #LatestNews #MainNews #MainNews #News #NotGreat #TopStories #TopStories #WaterQuality
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·How the Trump Administration Ended Independent Science at E.P.A.
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/epa-science-trump-cuts.html
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We Are Bombarding America’s Forests With Roundup
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Inside That Weird Anti-Science Conference Where Trump’s EPA Chief Delivered the Keynote
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Trump’s EPA Chief Delivers the Keynote at a Conference of Climate Change Deniers
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Al Gore: Trump Administration Is the Most Corrupt in History
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Gardener baffled after receiving mulch order: ‘A huge mistake’ https://www.allforgardening.com/1674804/gardener-baffled-after-receiving-mulch-order-a-huge-mistake/ #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #garden #gardener #gardening #PhotoCredit #WoodChips
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States Sue to Block EPA From Slashing Rule That Allows Greenhouse Gas Regulation
The rule, established in 2009, provides the legal justification needed to enforce the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations. -
Former Staff Show How Trump Acted to Upend EPA’s Mission and “Make America Sicker”
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Former Staff Show How Trump Acted to Upend EPA’s Mission and “Make America Sicker”
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In a new report that outlines a dozen high-risk pollutants given new life thanks to weakened, delayed or rescinded regulations, the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), a nonprofit, nonpartisan group of hundreds of former Environmental Protection Agency staff, warns that […] -
Trump’s Toxic Pollution Exemptions Are a Gift to America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants
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Trump’s Toxic Pollution Exemptions Are a Gift to America’s Dirtiest Coal Plants
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Almost all coal-fired power plants in the US had the ability to comply with rules limiting their emission of dangerous pollutants such as mercury that can cause brain damage in children. Despite this, Donald Trump’s administration decided to demolish the standards anyway. […] -
Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.
On February 12, Donald Trump dropped the climatic equivalent of an atomic bomb. He announced the repeal of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding, the basis of the EPA’s ability to regulate climate-warming emissions. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history,” proclaimed White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “This is corruption, plain […] -
Video: Trump Nuked a Major EPA Climate Rule. Here’s What You Need to Know.
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Trump administration sued over reversal of key climate finding
The Trump administration is facing a lawsuit over its decision to deregulate emissions and repeal a landmark scientific…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #CA #Canada #climatechange #DonaldTrump #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #LeeZeldin #Pollution #Science
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Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast. The first impact of this deregulatory […] -
Trump’s Climate Repeal Will Kill America’s Transition From Gas Guzzlers to EVs
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Durham lung transplant recipient fears health risks as EPA rolls back air pollution policies :: WRAL.com https://www.byteseu.com/1806154/ #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Health #LungTransplant #Transplant
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Trump Administration Ends Credit for Start-Stop Feature in Cars
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Bill Maher Eviscerates Donald Trump Over ‘Biggest Dick Move in American History’
Bill Maher eviscerated President Donald Trump over the “biggest dick move in American history,” following the rolling back…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #TV #Americanhistory #billmaher #climatechange #CreativeArtistsAgency #donaldtrump #Entertainment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #RealTimeWithBillMaher
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Trump Erased the Endangerment Finding. Here Come the Lawsuits.
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation
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Trump Repeals Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions
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Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President Trump will […] -
The New York Times - Breaking News, US News, World News and Videos [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·
A Campaign to Revoke the Endangerment Finding Appears Near ‘Total Victory’
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/climate/endangerment-finding.html
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Under Trump, #EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
By analyzing a range of federal court and administrative data, the nonprofit Environmental Integrity Project found that civil lawsuits filed by the US Department of Justice in cases referred by the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency dropped to just 16 in the first 12 months after Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. That is 76% less than in the first year of the Biden administration.
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In the 1970s, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cracked down on lead-based products including gasoline because of their toxic effects on human health. Now, scientists at the University of Utah have released the findings of a study looking at 100 years' worth of human hair samples, and found that the regulatory action worked. Here's more from @arstechnica.
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Trump’s EPA Protects Big Business, Not People or the Environment, Critics Say
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. After a tumultuous year under the Trump administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a new, almost unrecognizable guise—one that tears up environmental rules and cheerleads for coal, gas-guzzling cars, and artificial intelligence. When Donald Trump took power, it was widely anticipated […] -
Trump announces rollback of fuel economy standards https://www.byteseu.com/1597776/ #2022 #California #Congress #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs #DonaldTrump #DonaldJTrump #economy #environment #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #EPA #ExecutiveBranch #Florida #house #INFRASTRUCTURE #JoeBiden #Missouri #national #NationalHighwayTrafficSafetyAdministration #ohio #Politics #Republicans #SamGraves #Science #Senate #ShelleyMooreCapito #TedCruz #texas #Transportation #trump #VernBuchanan #Virginia #WestVirginia
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As far back as 1975 corporate insiders were aware of potential risks. They called #paraquat’s long-term effects "a quite terrible problem” (Nov 11, 1975 ltr to #Chevron Environmental Health, Standard Oil of California).
Over 70 countries banned paraquat; it remains legal in US. #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency banned use on #golf courses but allows on crops.
Most US paraquat comes from China & UK—both banned paraquat’s use in their countries.
—From #TheNewLede, Environmental Working Group vid
https://thenewlede.substack.com/p/watch-parkinsons-and-pesticides-insideHard to know full scope of paraquat use across US; California is only state where info on location & amt of use is readily available.— https://www.ewg.org/research/wonderful-company-among-californias-top-users-toxic-weedkiller-paraquat
In 2023 it was 46th most used pesticide in CA, 369,978 pounds applied.— https://www.cdpr.ca.gov/2024/12/30/department-of-pesticide-regulation-releases-preliminary-findings-from-review-of-environmental-and-human-health-studies-related-to-the-use-of-the-pesticide-paraquat/#CentralCoast workers&residents exposed to >300K kilograms 1992-2017. #MontereyCounty ranked as county in region with highest amt use— https://www.walkuplawoffice.com/central-coast-paraquat-lawsuit/
#Syngenta #Sinochem #Gramoxone #Ortho #OrthoPlus #agriculture #pesticides #Parkinsons -
Add #SovereignTribalNations to the list of 25 states resisting #Trump's #BudgetCuts !
#NativeCommunities could lose $24.5B under #Trump administration proposal
If upheld by the courts, the proposed freeze on #FederalGrants would affect nearly every tribeby Amelia Schafer
Excerpt: " 'Nearly all Tribes would be affected by a federal grant freeze, with many facing the prospect of losing tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — funding that is critical for supporting some of the most historically underserved communities in the United States,' the report concluded.
" 'When the federal government withholds funding from #Tribes and #NativeAmerican people, it’s not just a policy change. It’s a violation of those commitments — putting essential services at risk and undermining Tribal governing capacity.'
"A federal appeals court will decide if the administration has the legal authority to mass-suspend the grants, with arguments set in coming months in a lawsuit filed by the state of New York against President Donald Trump and his top administrators.
" 'as litigation around OMB’s funding freeze continues, it is essential that federal decisionmakers recognize the unique basis of funding for Tribes and #NativeAmerican people,' the report states. 'Funding to #IndianCountry is rooted in longstanding, legally-binding agreements between the United States and sovereign Tribal nations — not race, climate, or DEI.'
"At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, the OMB issued a sweeping order announcing a halt to federal grants nationwide, throwing tribal programs into turmoil.
"Although the grant freeze was temporarily halted, the administration continues to push for its implementation, and tribes continue to report difficulties in accessing the already-approved funds, the report notes.
"The bulk of the at-risk funding is dispersed through programs such as the Department of Health and Human Services [#DHHS], the Bureau of Indian Affairs [#BIA] and the Bureau of Indian Education under the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency.
"If the funding freeze clears legal hurdles, critical projects across the country will be at risk, the Brookings report said. These projects include a $35 million grant to the #OglalaSioux Tribe for #broadband development, a $3 million grant to urban #NativeHealth board for community health worker training, and a $200,000 grant to the #Chickahominy Indian Tribe for preliminary #engineering and #environmental work towards a #childcare center.
" 'This is the building block of how the U.S. government pays back tribes for the land it took,' Maxim said.
"The report does not include the sweeping cuts approved under Trump’s so-called '#BigBeautifulBill' by Congress, which includes cuts to #Medicaid, #FoodStamps and other social programs that include Native people as well as others, Brookings officials said.
"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. Maxim co-authored the report with Glencora Haskins, research associate and applied research manager."
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https://ictnews.org/news/tribes-could-lose-24-5b-under-trump-administration-proposal/#TribalSovereignty #CulturalGenocide #RespectTheTreaties #TrumpLies #TrumpBudgetCuts #USPol #TrumpSucks #FirstNations #StolenLand #LandBack #NativeAmericanNews #NativeCommunities
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Notorious US #ChemicalPlant polluting water with toxic #PFAS, lawsuit claims
Complaint says #Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie #DarkWaters continues to pollute #WestVirginia river
by Tom Perkins, January 27, 2025
"The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic 'forever chemicals', a new lawsuit alleges.
"It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.
The new federal complaint claims #WashingtonWorks has been spitting out levels of PFAS waste significantly higher than what a discharge permit has allowed since 2023, which is contaminating the #OhioRiver in #ParkersburgWestVirginia, a town of about 50,000 people in #Appalachia.
"The factory was the focal point of a Hollywood movie, Dark Waters. It dramatized the story of how the pollution widely sickened Parkersburg residents, and the David v Goliath legal saga in which a group of residents and attorneys took on Chemours, then part of DuPont.
The findings ‘highlight the importance of careful scrutiny of novel chemicals’, said Irene Jacz, a study co-author and Iowa State economist."An epidemiological study stemming from the case blew the lid off of the health risks of PFAS, and ultimately cost #DuPont about $700m.
"Though the landmark case still reverberates across the regulatory landscape, the suit started almost 25 years ago, concluded in 2016, and Chemours’s pollution continues. The new lawsuit is part of other legal actions related to the facility that have filled the gap left by weak regulatory action, local advocates say. The never-ending struggle 'wears you out', added Joe Kiger, a Parkersburg resident who was one of the original litigants in 2001.
"'We have put up with this for 24 years, and [Chemours] is still polluting, they’re still putting this stuff in the water,' Kiger said.
"The new lawsuit, filed by the #WestVirginiaRiversCoalition, alleges 'numerous violations' since the level of PFAS the company is permitted to discharge per a consent order was lowered in early 2023. Among the contaminants are #PFOA, a PFAS chemical to which virtually no level of exposure in drinking water is safe, the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency (#EPA) has found. It also includes #GenX, a compound for which the EPA has similarly found very low exposure levels can cause health problems.
"The EPA ordered Chemours to take corrective action, but the company has done nothing in response, and the agency has not taken further action, the suit states. The complaint does not mention drinking water, which is largely filtered. But the suit alleges the ongoing pollution prevents residents from using the river for recreation.
"In a statement, Chemours said the 'concerns are being addressed' through the consent order. It also noted it was renewing discharge permits with the state, and was working with regulators 'to navigate both the consent order and the permit renewal process'.
"'Chemours recognizes the Coalition as a community stakeholder and invites the Coalition to engage directly with the Washington Works team,' a spokesperson wrote.
"The EPA and West Virginia Rivers Coalition declined to comment because litigation is ongoing.
"Kiger and others who have taken on Chemours and DuPont railed against the company, accusing it of 'greed' and putting profits above residents’ health. Some in Parkersburg refer to the waste as the 'Devil's Piss'.
"'They do what they can to make money,' said Harry Deitzler, a West Virginia attorney who helped lead past lawsuits.
"'The officers in the corporation sometimes don’t care about what’s right and wrong – they need to make money for shareholders and the lawsuits make everyone play by the same rules.'
"Still, most residents are not aware of the ongoing pollution, those who spoke with the Guardian say. Chemours is a large employer that still wields power locally, and spends heavily on charitable giving. Many remain supportive of the company, regardless of the pollution, Kiger said.
"'That’s the kind of stuff you’re up against,' he added. 'People put a blind trust in them. It could be snowing out and Chemours would tell everyone it’s 80F [27C] and sunny, and everyone will grab their tan lotion.'
"The saga began in the late 1990s when the plant’s pollution was suspected of sickening nearby livestock, and an investigation by attorneys revealed the alarming levels at which PFAS was being discharged into the water and environment.
"A class action lawsuit yielded about $70m in damages for area residents in 2004, but the litigation did not prove DuPont’s PFAS pollution was behind a rash of #cancer, #KidneyDisease, stubbornly high cholesterol and other widespread health problems in the region.
"Instead of dividing the settlement up among tens of thousands of residents, which would have only provided each with several hundred dollars, the money went toward developing an epidemiological study with independent scientists to verify that widespread local health issues were caused by DuPont’s pollution.
"The move was a gamble that ultimately paid off – the study of about 70,000 people showed by 2012 that PFOA probably caused some forms of cancer, #ThyroidDisease, persistently #HighCholesterol, pregnancy-induced #hypertension and #autoimmune problems.
"Subsequent studies have shown links between the chemical and a host of other serious health problems – #BirthDefects, #neurotoxicity, kidney disease and #LiverDisease – that residents in the area suffered.
"DuPont and Chemours in 2017 settled for $671m in costs for about 3,500 injury suits, and have paid more to install water-filtration systems throughout the region. Separately, Chemours in 2023 settled with the state of #Ohio for $110m for pollution largely from Washington Works.
"The EPA and state regulatory agencies have at times been staffed with former DuPont managers or industry allies, and litigation has been the only way to get any meaningful movement, said Rob Bilott, the attorney who led the original class-action suit.
'"It’s infuriating,' Bilott said. 'It took decades of making DuPont documents and internal data public, and getting the story out through movies, news articles, books and public engagement, and that’s what finally pushed the needle here. This is the impact of citizens forcing it through decades of litigation.'
"The latest lawsuit is a citizen’s suit under the #CleanWaterAct. Such suits give citizens the power to ask a judge to enforce federal law when a polluter is violating it and regulators fail to act.
"The lawsuit asks a judge to order the company to pay $66,000 for each day it has been in violation, which is stipulated in the permit. That would total around $50m, but the main goal is to stop the pollution.
"The EPA has acknowledged Chemours is violating the law, but has 'taken no further enforcement action regarding Chemours’s violations as of the date of this complaint', the suit reads."
Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/chemours-pfas-pollution-lawsuitArchived:
https://archive.ph/p3wA6
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Harris County is now violating newly-revised federal air quality standards
#EnergyEnvironment #HarrisCounty #Local #News #AirAllianceHouston #AirQuality #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Epa #Pollution #Tceq
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BMW takes the wraps off the i4, its first all-electric sedan - BMW plans to have 25 electrified cars in its lineup by 2025 and it’s taking a few more steps in this... - http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/sZ5hL2gTufY/ #environmentalprotectionagency #operatingsystem #automotive #lasvegas #porsche #idrive #sedans #tesla #bmwi #cars #bmw #tc #i3