When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ended most uses of the notorious pesticide DDT back in 1972, it wasn’t just because of the poison’s then suspected links to cancer and serious reproductive effects in humans. Evidence also suggested that the chemical would bioaccumulate in ...

US regulators claim they are not legally required to regulate toxic PFAS chemicals in sewage sludge spread on farmland across the country, according to a court filing the government made this week in response to a lawsuit from an environmental watchdog group. In its Sept. 9 filing, the ...

EPA Ducks Responsibility to Regulate Toxic Sewage Sludge Fertilizer ...

The Interior Department posted a revised scientific integrity policy last month. It requires each component agency to appoint a career staff person as scientific integrity officer. But to one group of scientists, the policy differs little from protections that were greatly weakened during ...

Now it’s likely the environmental groups will have to file their own lawsuit with the 10th Circuit, demanding the EPA’s tougher open-access rule be put back in place. Coloradans wanting to check up on actual air pollution emissions from oil and gas or other sites will be “getting ...