A weakening of regulations is being promoted by people committed to scientific ignorance.
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Standing Up Against Trump’s Scorn for Science
It’s even more disgusting now than it was then. Five years ago this Thursday, the Heartland Institute–the industry-funded think tank notorious for rejecting the settled science connecting smoking to cancer and the burning of fossil fuels to climate change–engaged in one of the sleaziest media campaigns of all time: Drivers moving along Chicago’s inbound Eisenhower […]
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Ridding Washington of Pests
Some pro-lifer that Scott Pruitt is, eh? The new head of the Environmental Protection Agency refused Wednesday to ban a commonly used pesticide that the Obama administration had sought to outlaw based on mounting concerns about its risks to human health. The chemical compound chlorpyrifos, also known as Lorsban, has been used by farmers for […]
