Experts speculated the EPA may not be testing for dioxins because the process is expensive and difficult. A cleanup would also be costly, but the agency has said Norfolk Southern will be forced to pay. Meanwhile, the EPA and state regulators have a history of “false all clears” that ...

Nowak, now a University of Georgia professor, adds that transparency among government scientists is especially important because their salaries are paid for with taxpayer dollars. He argues that such a policy has no discernible upside but many significant downsides. He’s not alone. ...

The U.S. should overhaul regulation of a class of insecticides tied to excessive honey bee and bird deaths, according to a citizen petition filed Wednesday with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a coalition of more than 60 nonprofit groups. Specifically, the groups are ...

A group that promotes environmental integrity among public employees filed a complaint with the state University at Albany on Tuesday urging the school’s Senate to investigate what it called “wrongful retaliatory actions” against Dr. David O. Carpenter, the longtime ...

Just a week after his inauguration nearly two years ago, President Joe Biden issued an all-agency directive to strengthen the scientific integrity policies commissioned under former President Barack Obama and that had proven to be utterly ineffectual during the “alternative facts&# ...

Tim Whitehouse, a former senior EPA enforcement attorney who is the executive director of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), told Newsweek that there’s “tremendous pressure” for EPA officials to create an “air of normalcy” after an ...