Truthout
EPA
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/EPA-Urged-to-Take-Action-as-EU-Proposes-Partial-Ban-on-Pesticides-Linked-to-Bee-Die-Offs-306x300.jpg)
|
EPA Urged to Take Action as EU Proposes Partial Ban on Pesticides Linked to Bee Die-Offs
Risk to critical pollinators threatens the food supply.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Message from Mexico: US Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink
New efforts in Mexico to draw water from far underground conflicts with US policy that deep water can be purposely polluted.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
How Can Obama Tackle Climate Change in His Second Term?
The EPA wants to cap carbon emissions from new power plants despite industry pushback.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
Cuccinelli and Dominion Move to Repeal Virginia’s Clean Electricity Standard
Proposed legislation would harm environment and, opponents say, constitutes a confession that Dominion has accepted $77 million from ratepayers without properly fulfilling intent of current law.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Obama EPA Shut Down Weatherford, Texas Shale Gas Water Contamination Study
The Obama Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) censored a smoking gun scientific report related to shale gas contamination in Texas.
![](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2017/12/EPA-Chief-to-Step-Down-With-Climate-Still-Low-Priority-306x300.jpg)
|
EPA Chief to Step Down, With Climate Still Low Priority
Lisa P. Jackson is stepping down as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency after a four-year tenure that began with high hopes of sweeping action to address climate change …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Biofuels and the Right to Food: Time for the US to Get its Head Out of the Sand
The EPA refused to waive the U.S. ethanol mandate in order to ease price pressures in corn and soybeans following the severe US drought, thus valuing oil and …
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
Fracking: We Know What We’re Against. What Are We FOR?
While the anti-fracking campaign is very vocal about what they are against, Maura Stephens outlines what goals the movement wants to accomplish.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
|
Globalism Is Killing Us All
After surviving smallpox and malaria the American people, along with the rest of the world, must now face a new national epidemic: globalization.
![Truthout Logo](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/03/Truthout-Default-Image-1200x900.png)
Romney Versus Realonomy: A Peek Inside the Bubble
Mitt Romney's economic plan simply has no connection to the realonomy in which ordinary people live, work or don't work. It is not even a plan designed to benefit …