Medically Important Antibiotics Are Still Being Used to Fatten Up Pigs
by Civil Eats | June 12, 2024
The nonprofit organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is demanding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) retract a memo it released last year that reported the agency found no evidence of PFAS in its tests of commonly used pesticides. EPA initiated ...
Greens petition Interior to shut down trans-Alaska pipeline
by E&E News |
A coalition of environmental groups petitioned the Interior Department on Wednesday to phase out the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, starting with a climate analysis of the pipeline to assess its contribution to global warming. “A coherent national climate plan must consider the Trans- ...
Why scientists fear a second Trump term, and what they are doing about it
by The Washington Post |
When the union representing nearly half of Environmental Protection Agency employees approved a new contract with the federal government this month, it included an unusual provision that had nothing to do with pay, benefits or workplace flexibility: protections from political meddling into ...
Environmental groups ask feds to reconsider the trans-Alaska pipeline and plan for its removal
by Alaska Public Media |
A coalition of environmental groups has filed a legal petition with the federal government to reconsider how the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System contributes to climate change and to begin phasing the 800-mile line out of existence. “The federal government has a lot of both responsibility ...
Wild horses: reintroduced in Kazakhstan, shot Down Under, gathered here
by Animals 24-7 | June 11, 2024
While the wild horse population on Bureau of Land Management has more than tripled since 1971, despite annual removals of as many as 20,000 horses, there are now only half as many cattle and sheep on the range as there were when the Wild Free Roaming Horse & Burro Act of 1971 was ...