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Trump’s EPA information crackdown sparks fear, resistance

January 25, 2017 By Patrick J. Foote

EPA employees are ordered to halt all external communications.

Coal industry win is temporary, fate of plants still in air

June 30, 2015 By Matthew Brown

A divided Supreme Court ruled against the Obama administration's attempt to limit power plant emissions of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants.

Study: Cutting carbon dioxide saves 3,500 U.S. lives a year

May 5, 2015 By Seth Borenstein

The study from Harvard and Syracuse University calculates the decline in heart attacks and lung disease when soot and smog are reduced.

Nightmare begins as GOP takes over Senate

August 29, 2014 By PW Editorial

A GOP takeover would transform the Senate to reflect the concerns of people who have nothing but scorn and contempt for working people, democracy or any type of good government.

Environment threatened and 400 parks closed by government shutdown

October 1, 2013 By Blake Skylar

While the people are banned from the more than 400 shuttered national parks, big oil and gas companies will have no trouble getting in and will continue operations as usual in 12 of the otherwise closed...