
Tag: EPA

Thank God Donald Trump won so the corrupt pro-capitalist neoliberal order could finally be defeated! The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery
On November 8, 1970, Congress approved the Reorganization Acts Amendment that laid the groundwork for the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. Despite what nearly a half-century of right-w

Above: Scott Pruitt’s Dreams For better or for worse, perhaps the most important strategy for environmental organizations in the last 30 years has been to sue the government to force it to actua
The daily outrage from Trump’s minions: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will delay implementation of an Obama-era chemical safety rule for nearly two years while it reassesses the nece

As you may recall: Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt on Friday won Senate confirmation to head the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal agency he repeatedly sued to rein in its reach during
We may never fully recover from what is about to hit us. Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the ca

In These Times has an excellent essay on the corporate control over chemical regulation, including the chemical companies pioneering modeling systems that allows “testing” that provides al
Good on the Gulf Restoration Network for suing the Environmental Protection Agency for not doing its job to regulate the fertilizers and other chemicals that have created the huge biological dead zone
- The major question is, what to do about the courts?
- Can ruthlessly gerrymandered state legislatures simply toss out presidential elections in their states if they don’t like the results and just appoint more congenial representatives to the Electoral College?
- Supreme Court makes up rule to enforce reactionary political preferences, part infinity
- Fake Money in History
- Russia-Ukraine Update
- A Small Disinformation Bomb
- What counts as evidence?
- People We Should Remember
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,135
- This Time, Mitch is Totally Bargaining in Good Faith