These Chemicals Disrupt the Sexual Development of Children — and They're Everywhere
The EPA said that it would begin monitoring for DINP, a phthalate that causes birth defects and cancer, more than 20 years ago. It still hasn’t.
Environment
Climate Crimes
How Your 401(k) Is Helping Destroy the Amazon Rainforest
The growing financialization of Brazilian agribusiness is enabling foreign investment in the industry most responsible for deforestation.
Voices
How Climate Activists Pushed the "Left Edge of the Possible"
The strongest climate provisions may have failed, but the past 10 years have proved that organizing can work.
EPA Exposed
EPA Withheld Reports of Substantial Risk Posed by 1,240 Chemicals
Beginning in 2019, the EPA stopped releasing crucial toxics reports. Even agency staffers have a hard time accessing them.
Joe Manchin May Not Have Destroyed the World Yet After All
But now a lot will need to go exactly according to plan, an influential climate model suggests.
Congress Outmatched by Oil Executives at What Was Meant to Be a Defining Hearing
Despite clear parallels to Big Tobacco’s historic 1994 hearing, Democrats may have been unable to deliver a turning point.
Sen. Joe Manchin Has Been Fighting to Keep Billions in Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Industry
Manchin is knocking down every reconciliation effort to address the climate crisis. Next up is $121 billion in subsidies for fossil fuel companies.
Bad Chemistry
People Exposed to PFAS Criticize EPA Action Plan as Too Little, Too Late
Community advocates and environmental groups pointed out that the EPA has promised action on toxic PFAS pollution for many years.
EPA Exposed
EPA Plans to Clean Up Troubled Chemical and Pesticide Programs
The EPA announced the creation of two internal scientific advisory panels after whistleblower accounts of internal corruption.
EPA Failed to Correct Industry Misinformation About Deadly Air Pollution at Public Meetings
“We need people more than we need ethylene oxide," responded one outraged resident. "Stop making it, stop putting it out there."