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Copy Desk Daily, Sept. 3, 2020
… Supreme Court ruling giving tribes control of half the state. Gov. Kevin Stitt has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American …
Oklahoma governor asked EPA to strip tribes of environmental authority
… Ti-Hua Chang … The Young Turks … Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK) has asked the EPA to give his state jurisdiction over environmental regulations on Native American … Supreme court ruling giving the tribes sovereignty over the vast area. Stitt revealed his EPA request in a little-noticed webinar hosted by the Oklahoma Farm Bureau, a farming trade … (R-OK) attached a midnight rider to an appropriations bill, creating a federal law that the EPA must regulate environmental issues on the state’s tribal land or, if requested, the state of …
Environmental scientist roots work in sanctity of life: A conversation with Sylvia Hood Washington
… as an environmental justice commissioner for the state of Illinois, and I'm the Illinois EPA elected co-chair of the environmental justice advisory group. We know that lead exposures in …
Faith leaders rebuke Trump's rollback of major environmental law
… companies announced the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline. Gina McCarthy, former EPA director under the Obama administration and president of the Natural Resources Defense …
How to care for our common home
… generations to make a difference. … Post 3: Rejecting the throwaway culture … The U.S. EPA estimates that textile waste occupies nearly 5% of all landfill space. This month, shop for …
Across America, five communities in search of environmental justice
… to him that other parts of the parish didn't have it as bad. And soon after that incident, the EPA arrived and began monitoring for a chemical, chloroprene, that is used in the nearby plant … "I got the first results of the monitoring, it scared the heck out of me," he said. When the EPA found high levels of the chemical in the air near a school, "that's really what sparked the …
Where can I learn more about environmental racism?
… Revitalization for the National Wildlife Federation. Before that, Ali worked with the EPA for 24 years, most recently serving as senior advisor for environmental justice and community …
Copy Desk Daily, May 20, 2020
… from 2013 to 2017, after President Barack Obama appointed her assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation in 2009. This January, she became president and CEO of the …
Editorial: Trump's assault on the environment tramples years of progress
… by nature of the cronies he chooses to carry out his policies, chief among them the current EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, previously a lobbyist for the coal industry. Wheeler's … and previously protected lands for drilling and extraction operations. Most recently, the EPA has targeted Obama-era regulations on the coal industry on whose behalf Wheeler once lobbied, …
EarthBeat Weekly: 50 years of Earth Day
… EarthBeat's Interfaith Climate Tracker , the Evangelical Environmental Network notes that the EPA has found that one in six children born in the U.S. had dangerous amounts of mercury in their bodies . And now the EPA has weakened regulations on the release of such toxic metals . … Here's what's new in some …