Trump administration targets Obama’s clean-up of mercury pollution
The EPA proposal says the benefits to human health and the environment created by an Obama-era regulation -- credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants -- may not be worth the cost of the regulation.
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News Wrap: Senate passes farm bill after months-long stall
In our news wrap Tuesday, senators passed a farm bill that will provide more than $400 billion in farm subsidies, and rejects stricter limits on food stamps. Also, a jury recommended life in prison for the man who killed a…
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This Trump plan would strip protections from wetlands and smaller waterways
A new Trump administration proposal would reduce safeguards to millions of acres of waterways by removing federal oversight over smaller streams and tributaries. Judy Woodruff talks with Coral Davenport of The New York Times about how the plan would reverse…
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News Wrap: Trump says he’s ‘working on’ Mueller’s questions; Abrams ends governor bid
In our news wrap Friday, President Trump said he has answered written questions from special counsel Robert Mueller but not yet submitted the answers. He assured reporters that he worked on them himself. Also, Republican Brian Kemp effectively claimed Georgia’s…
Citrus growers hope to fend off fruit-munching katydids, but one weapon is under scrutiny. Researchers found that children growing up near fields where the insecticide chlorpyrifos was deployed exhibited autism-like symptoms. A court ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban…
The Trump administration is turning to scientific outliers who argue that a bit of radiation damage is actually good for you — like a little bit of sunlight.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules making it easier for oil and gas companies to release methane, a potent greenhouse gas. It's the Trump administration's third major step to roll back regulations aimed at combating global warming and climate…
After decades of research and debate, the EPA was on the cusp of banning all use of chlorpyrifos, a poison that attacks the nervous system. But in 2017, then-EPA administrator Scott Pruitt delayed a decision by five years. Science correspondent…
An EPA report on formaldehyde, more than a decade in the making, still hasn't been released to the public.
