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EPA to Farmworkers: Ask the Boss to Show You the Papers
After more than two decades, the EPA has announced revisions to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard, an outdated standard intended to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure. While advocates welcomed signs of life in progress to provide stronger protections from pesticides for approximately 2 million farmworkers, the proposal raises questions about the EPA’s understanding of the population the WPS is meant to serve.
Read MoreNC Regulators Ding Duke for a Penny Per Toxic Ton
Duke Energy’s $99,000 penalty was nothing—it’s like one of us, earning $50,000 a year, getting fined $1.90. Barely amounting to a library fine, this is no deterrent for the likes of Duke.
Read MoreA Pear Farm On The Frontlines of California’s Water Wars
Notes from a trip to the San Francisco Bay Delta to hear stories from people who would be directly impacted by a plan to pump massive amounts of freshwater out of the Delta to farms in the southern Central Valley.
Read MoreFarmworker Advocates Seek Stronger Pesticides Safeguard
When Mario Vargas showed up at the Washington, D.C., offices of representatives from his home state of Ohio in July of 2013, he shared stories from farmworkers who are getting sick from pesticides. Joined by his family and other farmworkers, he spoke about how it feels to inhale pesticides while pregnant, how farmworkers don’t know what their basic rights are, and how many workers are afraid to tell the truth about what is really going on in the fields.
Read MoreClean Air Ambassador Records Fight for Justice, Clean Air
Taking his work to the next level, Clean Air Ambassador Hilton Kelley has completed a book, A Lethal Dose of Smoke And Mirrors: Going home for better or worse, that chronicles his decision to leave Hollywood and take on powerful industrial polluters in his hometown, Port Arthur, Texas. Hilton—the first African-American man to win the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize—tells how he single-handedly made great strides to improve the health and environment in Port Arthur.
Read MoreFears Ramp Up As Oil Rolls into Albany
Train cars carrying crude oil have been derailing and exploding with frightening frequency lately, in Canada and North Dakota and Alabama and Philadelphia. There are fears that Albany, capital of the great state of New York, may be next in line.
Read MoreDanger to Wolves Mounts in Idaho, Across U.S.
Idaho leads the nation in open hatred for wolves, pursuit of wolf killing
Read MoreColorado Tackles Rules Governing Oil, Gas
Colorado has emerged as a western ground zero in the fracking boom, with more than 50,000 active wells in the state and 3,000 wells permitted annually on average in recent years. The state is struggling to deal with this staggering growth as well as the changing nature of the industry as operations have moved into communities along the Front Range.
Read MoreFlorida Governor Embraces Polluters in Chesapeake
Just helping another state’s waterways get as polluted as his.
Read MoreHealthy Coexistence: Key to Saving San Pedro River
Suit seeks to make Army help protect the river and its species
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