Six months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans are designing a recovery that defends their island. Politicians and bitcoin billionaires have other ideas.
Oil and Water
TigerSwan, the mercenary security firm that worked to suppress the NoDAPL movement, is promoting its disaster response efforts in Houston and Puerto Rico.
The commerce secretary made a fortune selling U.S. steel companies to a foreign entity and evaded responsibility for environmental cleanup.
The state’s relationship with Energy Transfer Partners stands in stark contrast to its lack of engagement with activists opposing the Bayou Bridge pipeline.
![July 25, 2017 - Cottage Grove, MN, USA - Teddy Cuellar, 4, watched his father Matt pour water from the shower into a rain barrel on the deck of their Cottage Grove home. The family waters their garden from the barrel. .... .. ] CARLOS GONZALEZ • cgonzalez@startribune.com - July 25, 2017, Cottage Grove, MN, The long dry summer in Cottage Grove has lasted longer than the mayor predicted in May, when the City Council voted to shut down eight of the city's 11 wells and impose a strict watering ban on residents. The reason? Traces of decades-old 3M pollution were registering too high under new state Health Department guidelines. (Credit Image: © Carlos Gonzalez/Minneapolis Star Tribune via ZUMA Wire)](https://theintercept.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/3M-Minnesota-pollution-1519167696.jpg?fit=768%2C384)
Bad Chemistry
As an expert on perfluorinated chemicals, Professor John Giesy was in a position to help 3M keep damaging papers out of the scientific literature.
Bad Chemistry
While the dangers of PFOA and PFOS are widely known, very little is known about the other chemicals in their class, PFAS.
Bad Chemistry
The U.S. military is spending billions to clean up drinking water contaminated with toxic firefighting foam while continuing to use dangerous new formulas.
The Integrated Risk Information System, or IRIS, is the only division of the EPA that independently assesses the toxicity of chemicals.
Ohio’s bill mirrors a model laid out by ALEC, while Iowa’s creates a new felony, “critical infrastructure sabotage,” punishable by up to 25 years in prison.
At a hearing of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee on Tuesday, the EPA's Scott Pruitt repeatedly avoided answering simple yes-or-no questions.