South Florida Awash in Cow Manure
From: The Blue Paper “The PEER analysis looks at 31 CAFO permits that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has issued in the seven-county area south of Orlando, with most in Okeechobee County directly to the north of Lake Okeechobee. These facilities hold ...
Corporations Increase Green Energy Purchases, Overshadowing Trump’s Environmental Policies
From: Forbes “Interestingly, the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility successfully forced the EPA to show that Pruitt had no data before him when he publicly questioned the extent to which humans are responsible for global warming, or more precisely, the burning of fossil ...
Trump Allows GMO Crops and Harmful Pesticides in Wildlife Refuges
From: TruthOut “Late last week, the Trump administration rescinded an Obama-era policy banning the use of GMO crops and a controversial class of pesticides thought to harm bees and birds in federal wildlife refuges. The news generated some eye-popping headlines and raises the question: ...
United States: D.C. District Court Orders EPA To Respond To Climate Change FOIA Request
From: Mondaq “On June 1, 2018, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia issued a memorandum opinion ordering the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to respond to a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request received from ...
EPA Docs Don’t Show Any Scientific Evidence for Scott Pruitt’s Climate Claims
From: Ars Technica “During a live interview last year on Squawk Box, the administrator stated: “I would not agree that [carbon dioxide is] a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” adding, “there’s a tremendous disagreement about the degree of the impact” of “ ...
D.C. District Court Orders EPA to Respond to Climate Change FOIA Request
From: Lexology “The case offers several key takeaways that could shape future FOIA requests directed to EPA and the agency’s responses thereto. First, the D.C. District Court made it clear that EPA can be called upon to produce documents supporting or relied on to formulate public ...
