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Industry Could Play Bigger Role at EPA

11.05.2017 - The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fired at least five of the 18 scientists on its Board of Scientific Counselors in a move the agency’s new leadership said was aimed...

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Ecology Wins, Energy Loses in Stop-gap US Budget

03.05.2017 - Many environmental programs administered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as well as science funding that had been earmarked for elimination or greatly reduced in...

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EPA Denies Petition to Ban Chlorpyrifos

13.04.2017 - A week before a federal court deadline to make a final decision on its use, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied a petition to ban the insecticide active...

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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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Environment Rollback Roils America

31.03.2017 - With the shock waves from 2016’s most unanticipated events – Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US president – still reverberating, the earth sometimes seems to be tilting...

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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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US Toxic Chemicals Emissions Halved

09.02.2017 - In one of its last press releases before being sidelined by the administration of new President Donald Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported a cumulative 56%...

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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...