Private water companies want to use the infrastructure bill to accelerate privatization. Why is Tammy Duckworth carrying water for them?
EPA
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Pristine and Deadly Earth Day
COVID-19 defines life on the 50th anniversary of the environmental movement’s day. The natural world remains resilient, showing humans what is possible if we heed this latest warning.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Buying Their Way Out of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s EPA lets big-time coal industry donors off the hook for the damage their mercury emissions inflict on children.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Twenty States Without Any Dedicated Criminal Enforcement Staff for Environmental Crimes
EPA vacancies show lack of commitment to criminal enforcement, experts say.
Posted inGreen New Deal
Toxic Injustices
Priority for abused communities must pervade every aspect of a Green New Deal.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Cost-Benefit Boomerang
The right devised cost-benefit analysis to discredit regulation. Now this technique is showing massive net benefits, and the foes of environmental regulation are in a panic.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Consumer Product Safety Rules and the Lobbyists Who Work to Scuttle Them
Industry officials turn to Bracewell LLP to pare back regulations on everything from portable generators to table saws.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
EPA Rollbacks: Hurting Americans Where They Live
A look inside the agency’s Midwest office
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Science Under Siege
The Trump administration is undermining research in key areas, but the scientific enterprise continues within the government largely as it was—at least so far.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Hidden Hazards Beneath Trump’s Dismantling of the EPA
The administration’s efforts to speed up the redevelopment of hazardous sites is one more step in its efforts to weaken the Environmental Protection Agency and put the public at risk.