Nuclear threat
For those of us old enough to remember school bomb drills or the Cuban Missile crisis, the idea of another nuclear arms race is terrifying...
Senate Confirms Scott Pruitt To Lead Environmental Protection Agency
Morning Edition on NPR Berlin Kelly McEvers (host) February 17, 2017 KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: [...]
How The EPA Became A Victim Of Its Own Success
Morning Edition on NPR Berlin By Nate Rott February 17, 2017 The Environmental Protection Agency has a pretty simple mission in principle: to protect human health and the environment. It's a popular purpose too. Nearly three out of four U.S. adults believe the country "should do whatever it takes to protect the environment," according to a 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center. [...]
Good Luck Killing the EPA; Dismembering the agency requires changing 45 years worth of laws, warns one Republican who ran it.
Bloomberg By Eric Roston February 8, 2017 The new U.S. president and Congress are taking a hard look at environmental rules—none harder than a freshman U.S. representative whose new bill would “terminate the Environmental Protection Agency.” [...]
Stop It!
STOP IT. That’s what the American people were saying in the last election...
Trump’s EPA facing fire amid efforts to rein in agency
USA Today/THE NEWS-PRESS Washington bureau By Ledyard King February 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is facing its toughest test since the regulatory agency opened its doors in 1970 under President Richard Nixon. [...]