#EPA Proposes Allowing Use of #Dicamba #Weedkiller on Some #Crops
Last year, federal court made certain uses of dicamba illegal after #farmers complained it drifts into neighboring fields, damaging their crops. Ban was scheduled to take full effect this year.
EPA, which reviewed dicamba’s uses and found it poses no risk to human health, is now accepting public comment on its proposed decision. It will then decide whether to greenlight the products.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/climate/dicamba-weed-killer-epa.html
https://archive.ph/FzJDX

So, when I first saw this headline, I thought it was about the #UnitedStates making #EPA staffing cuts. Nope! It's the #UK! And this has been going on for a while now!

Thousands of #RiverPollution tests cancelled because of staff shortages

by Jonah Fisher, July 24, 2025

Excerpt: "Staffing problems are nothing new at the EA. In 2023 its chairman Alan Lovell told parliament that it had 'struggled with recruitment and retention of staff'.

"Internal emails obtained by campaign groups #Greenpeace and #Desmog through freedom of information requests were shared with the BBC. They show EA officials discussing the impact of staff departures on testing and saying that others planned to leave.

"One senior official, writing an email to her colleagues, said it was 'not good news I'm afraid' adding 'this isn't where we want to be (again)'.

"Helen Nightingale, who worked at the #EnvironmentAgency as a catchment planner, analysing data from its water quality programme until 2022, says that while she was there she saw a shift of focus away from serious investigation to trying to find 'successes'.

"She also said that morale was low: "The pay is not great – we didn't have pay rises for years due to #austerity.

" 'But a lot people are in it [the EA] because they want to make a difference – and when you're not even getting that - well, what's the point?'

"Documents seen by the BBC show that the work affected by the cuts to testing this year included investigations into the water industry in various parts of the country, and monitoring of #ProtectedAreas including the #RiverWye, which is currently facing a #pollution crisis linked to intensive #ChickenFarming."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24xy8zgp4o

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/o15LD

Ich habe für heise online seit dem Start der #ePA berichtet und sie peu a peu gefüllt. Nun als Rentner würde ich gerne die #ePA behalten, aber der Datenweitergabe zu Foschungszwecken widersprechen. Dann aber sind alle meine Daten z.B. die gesammelten Blutwerte, der Medikationsplan, der Impfausweis und das Zahnbonusheft futsch. Klicke ich auf den entsprechenden Menüpunkt, kommt der Hinweis:

"Der Widerspruch bewirkt eine sofortige Löschung Ihrer ePA und aller in der ePA gespeicherten Daten."

"#EPA drafts rule to strike down landmark climate finding."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/22/endangerment-finding-epa-climate/

"The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to rescind a landmark 2009 legal opinion that greenhouse gas emissions put human health at risk, which underpins many of the government’s actions to combat #climate change…A decision to completely rescind the endangerment finding is still a draft proposal and could be subject to change…The draft would also eliminate all resulting limits on motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions."

"The #Trump administration's intent is clear: They want to undermine or overturn the endangerment finding so as to evade #EPA's legal responsibility to address the harms caused by #ClimateChange ... This is simply a giveaway to the #FossilFuel industry and an attempt to undo pollution standards to limit heat-trapping emissions from motor vehicles, from power plants, [and] from oil and gas operations."

#environment #climate #capitalism #USpoli
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/24/nx-s1-5302162/climate-change-trump-epa

The sad excuse for an EPA seeks to be a federal death agency under the Trump Regime.

Per WAPO, the MAGA EPA irresponsibly seeks to put the controversial banned Monsanto herbicide dicamba back on the capitalist US market.

The previously banned drift-prone crop poison is used on cotton and soybean fields, on millions of acres. My state of Vermont farms soybeans, and was involved in having dicamba outlawed twice this decade.

#epa #dicamba #poison #drift

Details: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/23/banned-herbicide-return-epa-dicambra/

Glenn Connley writes:

‘NSW court blocking largest coalmine expansion in state a big win for the environment

The Australia Institute welcomes reports that the New South Wales Court of Appeal has overturned the approval of one of the largest coal mine expansions in the state.

The court found the Independent Planning Commission failed to take into account the impact of all the carbon pollution associated with the project, including pollution from the exported emissions when the coal is sold and burned overseas.

Mach Energy’s Mount Pleasant coal mine expansion near Muswellbrook is one of the most polluting coal projects that was seeking approval in Australia.’

(SOurce: Live AustraliaInstitute.org)

This opens the way for other Court actions to block all further applications to expand #FossilFuel Extraction in NSW at least. And an excample for other jurisdictions to follw. This legal judgement is well supported by the very recent #ICJ desision on ‘Duty of Care’ where #climateAction is concerned. Perhaps, the Law Courts is filling in where an #EPA Act should.

“This is total victory for the polluters right now," says epidemiologist Thomas Burke, a former advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency.

He is responding to the dissolution of its scientific research arm, which will see hundreds of scientists fired and their research on environmental hazards ended.

https://www.science.org/content/article/blow-environment-epa-begins-dismantle-its-research-office

EPA drafts plan to strike down ‘endangerment finding’ on greenhouse gases - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/xLWFA

"The agency proposes to overturn the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which underpins limits on greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles and power plants."

(22 Jul) Win for chemical industry as EPA shutters scientific research office

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on Office of Research and Development assessments.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/s70us
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/cBihE ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/osd4o

#epa #office-of-research-and-development #science #syndication

#Trump #EPA Is Said to Have Drafted a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight #ClimateChange

According to 2 people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that #GreenhouseGas #emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the #planet.

#idiocracy #ClimateCrisis #Climate #science #PublicHealth #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The EPA's water pollution control technologies are decades out of date -- so we took legal action with a coalition of partners.

And in our first big win against the new Trump Administration, we won!

The 9th Circuit has ruled that the #EPA must update its pollution controls for oil refineries, chemical plants & other polluting industries.

This ruling will help stop harmful pollution here in the #BayArea and across the country!

Learn more: https://baykeeper.org/enews/updates-for-july-2025/

Photo: Hudson Henry

Menschen stellen fest, was eigentlich an medizinischen Leistungen abgerechnet wird.

Bald auch in ihrer #ePA

https://fnordon.de/@dieliebenessy/114895550521252321