United States: The Chemical Compound – October 2019
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Susan Sargent | October 16, 2019
This quarterly newsletter provides updates on litigation, regulatory, legislative, and other notable developments involving chemicals of concern to business. Our present focus is on substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various government agencies and ...
Dirty Recs Foul Renewable Energy in Maryland
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Susan Sargent | October 15, 2019
Incineration and other dirty fuels dressed up and sold as “green” to consumers ...
NRDC Briefs Congress on Neonic Pesticide Human Health Harms
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Susan Sargent |
I am pleased to be able to brief Congressional staff—both the House and Senate side—on the potential for adverse human health harms from neonicotinoid pesticides, or ‘neonics’. NRDC is one of a coalition of environmental groups—including Friends of the Earth (FOE US) and Public ...
PEER Hosts Congressional Briefing on Toxic Pesticides
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Susan Sargent | October 14, 2019
Representatives Earl Blumenauer and Nydia Velázquez join agricultural and health experts and environmental advocates for congressional briefing on toxic pesticides ...
Death Valley’s Park Service Wants Them Gone. But Are Wild Donkeys Really the Enemy?
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Susan Sargent |
DEATH VALLEY National Park is stunningly barren. Silt hillsides crowned with rock and scree give way to dry streambeds and barren salt flats, the air dancing under a pitiless sun. The largest park in the lower 48 states, it contains the lowest elevation point in the country — nearly 300 ...