It’s Giving the Earth a Much-Needed Break from Climate-Wrecking CO2 Emissions
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How Big Corporations Are Poisoning the Nation’s Farms
It’s About Ignoring Nature and Lobbying in the Trump Administration By Sarah Okeson How did farmers who had shunned deadly dicamba for decades end up buying it even as the herbicide poisoned their neighbors’ farms? The answer is money. Bayer AG and BASF, makers of dicamba, have spent more than $40 million in federal lobbying…
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Deadly Poison Used to Kill Weeds Wreaks Havoc on Nearby Farms
Approved by Obama and Trump, Dicamba Drifts to Damage Soybeans, Peaches, Other Crops; In Court, Farmers Win a Round Against Manufacturer
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Energy Companies Get a Free Hand as FERC Ties Homeowners in Legal Knots
Energy Commission Uses Obscure Ploy to Block Pipeline Opponents from Court Challenges
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Fish and Wildlife Service Kills Endangered Freshwater Mussels
Pipeline Construction Targets One of Just 19 Streams Where the Clubshell Species Lives. A Bill Barr Connection, Too. By Sarah Okeson Trump’s Fish and Wildlife Service has pushed an endangered freshwater mussels closer to extinction. The creature is threatened through efforts to placate an energy company where Attorney General Bill Barr was once on the…
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Trump Declares War on the Chesapeake Bay
Clean-up Funding Cuts and Lax EPA Oversight of the Polluted ‘National Treasure’
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The Bureau of Land Management Wants to Go Back to the Dust Bowl Era
The Agency Is Planning a Wholesale ‘Update’ of Its Cattle Grazing Regulations—You Know What That Means
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EPA Readies a Present to the Coal Industry
The Agency That Supposed to Protect the Environment Is About to Let Polluters Make It Worse
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EPA to Ease Rules on Power Plants Storing Deadly Coal Ash
Move Is the Latest Trump Administration Effort to Prop Up the Failing Coal Industry
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EPA Guts Chemical Plant Safety Regulation
Move Came Less Than a Month After Giant Texas Plant Explosion