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US Congress Pursues More Environment Rollback

07.04.2017 - Alongside already known or implemented moves rolling back decades of US environmental protection legislation and the 31% cut in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget...

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New US Budget Cuts EPA Funding, Laws Delayed

17.03.2017 - The administration of new US president Donald Trump is quickly moving to put its election campaign promises into practice. Much of its activity focuses on overturning President...

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Bill to Gut EPA Introduced in US Congress

07.02.2017 - A first-time Congressman from the state of Florida, Matt Gaetz, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would abolish the US federal Environmental Protection...

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Trump Gags EPA, Freezes Funds

25.01.2017 - Even before his controversial nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, is confirmed by the Senate, newly inaugurated US President...

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EPA to Evaluate Chemicals for Risk

17.01.2017 - For the first time in 40 years, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is preparing to evaluate existing chemicals sold on the US market that may pose risks to human health...

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Grangemouth Firms Fined for Pollution

16.01.2017 - Scotland’s environmental protection agency, SEPA, has issued fines to 383 industrial companies or sites – including Ineos, BP and Syngenta at Grangemouth – for their “poor” or...

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Obama Administration Tightens Environmental Safety

23.12.2016 - As US President Barack Obama’s days in office wind down and in the gap before the next president, Donald Trump, takes office on Jan. 21, 2017, the so-called “lame duck” is showing...

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ExxonMobil CEO Chosen for US Secretary of State

19.12.2016 - Continuing in the mode of choosing people for his cabinet who are not politicians and who have ties to industry, US president-elect, Donald Trump, has chosen ExxonMobil’s chairman...