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Trump Keeps Trying to Kill Agency That Investigates Chemical Plant Disasters

by | August 17, 2018
From: Reveal News “The Trump administration argues that the Chemical Safety Board duplicates the work of other federal agencies. Administration budget documents also cite unspecified complaints from industry and other federal agencies about the board’s recommendations for new ...

Trump Quietly OK’s Bioengineered Farming on Wildlife Refuges

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From: The Nation “In a terse memorandum, seemingly unprompted, the FWS quietly rescinded a hard-won Obama-era legal agreement, which imposed a blanket ban on the pesticides and genetically modified crops on the agricultural lands currently hosted in national wildlife refuges. The Obama- ...

Survey: Many Federal Researchers Say Politics Trump Science and Are Afraid to Speak Up

by USA Today |
“Scores of scientists working for the federal government say that under the Trump administration, political concerns outweigh scientific rigor and budget cuts hamper their mission, a new survey shows. Scientists also said they censor their own work to avoid getting in trouble, according ...

South Florida Awash in Cow Manure

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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

by | August 9, 2018
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

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From: TruthOut “Late last week, the Trump administration rescinded an Obama-era policy banning the use of GMO crops and a controversial class of pesticides thought to harm bees and birds in federal wildlife refuges.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: ...
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