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Trump’s EPA is set to roll back clean water regulations, despite water crises

Jul 3, 2017

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is moving to scrap the federal clean water rule, a measure that protects drinking water for one third of Americans. They have proposed a “substantive re-evaluation” of wh...

Science based policies, now under threat, are crucial to protect vulnerable communities

West Side Story

Apr 23, 2017

Environment, Opinion, Policy, Science

On Saturday, thousands of scientists and activists gathered in Washington DC for the March for Science, calling on the public to defend science-based policy making against what they see as an assault from the T...

Outgoing EPA administrator says staff are concerned Trump will sideline climate science

West Side Story

Jan 23, 2017

Environment, Policy, Science

According to outgoing EPA administrator, Gina McCarthy, staff at the agency are concerned that the incoming Trump administration could reverse progress on climate change and even interfere with science. McCarth...

Internal EPA report suggests agency had information to act on Flint water crisis months before it took action

West Side Story

Oct 24, 2016

Environment, Policy

A new report released by the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general says that the agency should have issued an emergency order to address the water crisis in Flint, Michigan seven months before act...

Honey bee populations dwindling, US creates task force to fix it

Platonium

Jun 20, 2014

Innovation

The White House has developed a task force to deal with dwindling honey bee populations. Lead by The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the agriculture department, they plan on raising $8 million for new...

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