WASHINGTON (February 10, 2020) – The Trump Administration presented a budget to Congress today for fiscal year 2021 that includes dramatic cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Commerce which houses the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
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Petition: Protect the Clean Water Act!
There’s been an ongoing debate on whether groundwater should be included in the Clean Water Act of 1972. A rollback of the entire law has been proposed, however, and threatens people’s access to clean water. It would mean that the pollution of rivers, streams, wetlands and other bodies of water will no longer be judged […]
Victory! PETA and EPA Scientists Save Hundreds of Birds
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have swooped in to prevent hundreds of birds from being used in pesticide tests. A peer-reviewed paper co-authored by the two organizations reviewed 20 years of data from a test for pesticides in which birds are fed pesticide-laced food for days and […]
Trump administration authorizes ‘cyanide bombs’ to kill wild animals
The Trump administration has reauthorized government officials to use controversial poison devices – dubbed “cyanide bombs” by critics – to kill coyotes, foxes and other animals across the US. The spring-loaded traps, called M-44s, are filled with sodium cyanide and are most frequently deployed by Wildlife Services, a federal agency in the US Department of […]
POLL: Should “Toxic Mining” be banned to protect Alaska’s brown bears?
This summer, brown bears will converge on the pristine rivers, streams, and wetlands of Bristol Bay, Alaska to feed on sockeye salmon in preparation for a long winter of hibernation. But unless we act now, that magnificent wilderness and its abundant fish and wildlife could be devastated by one of the largest open-pit gold and […]
POLL: Should the Trump Administration be allowed to strip waterways pollution protections?
The Trump administration is planning to strip Obama-era pollution protections from thousands of US streams and millions of acres of wetlands, in a move environmentalists warn will harm vital wildlife and could allow pollution into drinking water. The federal government plans to scale back the list of waterways for which land users are required to […]
POLL: Should the Trump Administration ban deadly ‘Cyanide Bombs’?
Conservationists are expressing some serious disappointment over the Trump administration’s decision not to ban deadly devices otherwise known as M-44s, or “cyanide bombs,” despite their brutality, sickening death toll and the risks they continue to pose. These devices are spring-activated bait traps placed in the ground that are loaded with sodium cyanide, which is ejected […]
POLL: Should Trump be allowed to “roll back” the Clean Water Act?
October is the month for scary stories, so here goes. Once upon a time, there were no federal standards to protect water quality in our rivers, streams, bays, and lakes. The result? Rivers like Ohio’s Cuyahoga River caught fire multiple times before the infamous fire in 1969. The average loss of wetlands in the United […]
