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Ralph Nader: Ralph’s Year End Charitable Giving Favorites

From: The Litchfield County Times

“A group of U.S. Forest Service professionals started this remarkable group, which has since spread to civil servants in other federal agencies such…

New Regional Forester Says Agency is Responding to Timber Sale Concerns

From: KFSK

“In early November Petersburg’s borough assembly voted to send a letter to the chief of the U.S. Forest Service asking for information on Tongass National Forest timber sales.…

Climate Team, and Its Boss, Just Got Harder to Find at Top Health Agency

From: The New York Times

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly folded its Climate and Health Program into a branch that studies asthma and expunged the word climate…

Trump Moves to Gut the Clean Water Act

From: The Nation

“Now that the Trump administration’s performance at the COP 24 meeting in Poland has thoroughly trampled over climate-change protections, Trump is moving on from promoting…

Selling Shipyard Safety

From: San Francisco Chronicle

“Beyond the home area, the situation is even more fluid. The Navy has laid out its plan to retest the shipyard, but the EPA and other agencies have said…


News Releases

FILTER THE CHEMICAL SOUP IN NEW JERSEY’S DRINKING WATER

Available Treatments Could Screen Hundreds of Unregulated Compounds from Taps

INTERIOR POSTS ONLY HALF OF A SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY POLICY

Draft Would Punish Scientists But Not Protect Against Political Manipulation

EXXON VALDEZ DAMAGES REMAIN UNSETTLED AFTER 21 YEARS

Inability to Document Natural Resource Damages May Bedevil BP Spill Payments

ANTIMICROBIAL DRUGS IN LIVESTOCK THREATEN HUMAN HEALTH

FDA Voluntary “Judicious Use” Plan Too Weak and Narrow to Abate Risks

SPIKING MERCURY LEVELS IN COAL ASH POSE NEW RISKS

Tougher Pollution Controls Multiply Toxic Potency of Coal Combustion Wastes