DC Report

Undoing Trump’s threat to endangered North American right whales

by Elizabeth Duan | March 1, 2021
“Trump’s National Marine Fisheries Service was regulating right whales toward extinction as the whales literally starved to death while entangled in fishing gear. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “has powerful tools to protect the North American ...

EPA Won’t Address the Ticking Time Bomb Right Next Door

by PEER | November 21, 2019
“Tens of thousands of people in our nation could die in a Bhopal-like catastrophe far worse than the 9/11 death toll of nearly 3,000 Americans. The reason is hydrofluoric acid, a chemical so dangerous that it can seep through skin and dissolve bones. Oil refineries use the acid to ...
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