The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is staying an Obama-era regulation that would enforce higher safety standards for companies storing large quantities of hazardous chemicals. The rule was written after 15 people were killed in a fertilizer plant explosion in 2013. The rule will not be enacted until June 19th of this year. EPA Director, … [Read more...]
White House Memo Suggests Major Cuts to Top Climate Science Agency
The Washington Post obtained a four-page memo outlining a plan to decrease the budget of a top climate science agency by 17 percent. The substantial cutting of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) budget would include trimmings of research funding and data-collecting programs. It would also seek to reduce … [Read more...]
Trump Executive Order Takes on the Clean Water Rule
The last month and a half of Donald Trump’s presidency has been a chaotic rush to change rules and regulations he does not like. Every day there is something new to chart and figure out. Trump has continued to churn out executive orders one after the other. The latest executive order is one that induces environmental regulators to rescind or revise … [Read more...]
House Republicans Overhaul “Stream Protection Rule”
On Wednesday (1/1/17), the US House of Representatives voted to kill the “stream protection rule” regulation by a vote of 228-194. The “stream protection rule” was signed into effect by the Obama administration on December 16, 2016. The rule, in simple terms, ensures that coal mining companies don’t dump mining debris into local streams and … [Read more...]
Trump Rewriting All the Rules
It has been a busy first few days for the US President. In addition to the executive order to provide relief from the Affordable Care Act known as ObamaCare, President Trump has taken numerous other steps to undo actions taken by his predecessor and to hamstring federal agencies efforts to regulate businesses and other … [Read more...]
Former Hospital Employee is Suing After Being Fired While Trying to Prevent Spread of Infection
Shannon Walden, a former infection control coordinator at Missouri River Medical Center in Fort Benton Montana, is filing a lawsuit claiming that she was fired for reporting to state officials the lack of action and negligence in the center which allowed a contagious infection to spread. Walden is seeking nearly $60,000 in damages, according to … [Read more...]
BP to Pay $61.2 Billion for Gulf Oil Spill
After one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in history, oil company BP has said that it will pay $61.2 billion to repair damages stemming from its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The incident killed eleven workers, released approximately 3.2 million barrels of oil into the Gulf, and caused untold damages to local business, … [Read more...]
Conservationists Hail Move to Limit U.S. Ivory Trade
For many years authorities around the world have pledged to help end the slaughter of African elephants and rhinoceroses by poachers looking to cash in on their valuable ivory tusks and horns. Now, in a move to increase the U.S. contribution to the effort, authorities in the United States are looking to practically ban the trade of African … [Read more...]
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