by Beth Holmes | Dec 5, 2022 | Conservation, Environmental hazards
A pesticide approved eight years ago by the EPA may be killing off bees. They’ve been ordered to take a closer look, at last. Cyantraniliprole (CTP), a pesticide meant to protect agricultural crops from insect depredation, was approved by the Environmental...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 11, 2022 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards, Green Energy, Sustainability
Gutting the EPA, the latest Supreme Court ruling dictates that only Congress can regulate emissions coming from existing power plants. In 2015, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a directive to all standing coal power plants in the U.S. to either reduce...
by Beth Holmes | Nov 29, 2021 | Business, Climate Change, Conservation, Green Energy
Wastewater, rather than air pollution, may be the wedge that finally pushes coal out of its place as the U.S.’s power source. Coal-burning plants in the United States had an October deadline to get better at filtering their wastewater. A new wastewater rule,...
by Admin | Dec 23, 2020 | Articles, Climate Change, Conservation
In President-elect Biden’s campaign, he promised that he would make climate change and environmental protections a top priority. It was planned early on that whoever he wound up choosing to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would be a major voice in...
by Admin | Aug 6, 2014 | Articles, Environmental hazards
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a hearing earlier this month about the groundbreaking proposal it originally rolled out in June. While environmentalists are ecstatic about the limits to greenhouse gases included in the proposal, skeptics...
