"A new analysis of more than 50 previously secret, corporate-backed scientific studies is raising troubling questions about a history of regulatory reliance on such research in assessing the safety of the widely used weedkilling chemical known as glyphosate, the key ingredient in the popular Roundup herbicide."
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has withdrawn a 2020 rule that would allow a radioactive substance in some road construction."
"Emergency responders in Canada are currently battling more than 180 wildfires in British Columbia amid an intense heat wave that has left hundreds dead in the Pacific Northwest."
"A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency rule change that allowed for the sale of a 15% ethanol gasoline blend in the summer months."
"Environmentalists and activists claimed victory Saturday after a company canceled plans to build an oil pipeline through southwest Tennessee and north Mississippi, and over an aquifer that provides drinking water to 1 million people."
"Four whistleblowers in EPA's chemicals office allege officials tampered with key risk assessments and processes, according to a complaint filed by an environmental group on behalf of the agency staffers."
"As Tropical Storm Elsa closed in on Cuba early Monday morning, tropical storm warnings were expanded across Florida ahead of the storm's projected U.S. landfall around midweek. Tropical storm warnings are in effect across the Florida Keys and along the west coast of the peninsula from Flamingo northward to Englewood."
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"Fireworks bans are being enacted throughout the drought-stricken West as officials worry about wildfires—but in Utah, the situation is complicated by a law as murky as the air after a pyrotechnics display."
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/corporate-studies-asserting-herbicide-safety-show-many-flaws-new-study
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jul/02/glyphosate-herbicide-roundup-corporate-safety-studies
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-pulls-rule-allowing-use-radioactive-material-road-construction
[4] https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/561377-epa-withdraws-rule-allowing-use-of-radioactive-material-in-road
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/canada-battles-more-180-wildfires-hundreds-dead-heat-wave
[6] https://www.npr.org/2021/07/04/1013026434/canada-battles-more-than-180-wildfires-with-hundreds-dead-in-heat-wave
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/court-strikes-trump-epa-rule-full-year-15-ethanol-sales
[8] https://apnews.com/article/courts-business-c64fc205ffe03a4848e2a55c5e4d16b4
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/under-presssure-company-cancels-tennessee-pipeline
[10] https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-tennessee-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-business-e3d71136ab859ce80511f53642ded4fd
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/whistleblowers-claim-epa-altered-risk-reviews-toxics
[12] https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063736433
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/parts-us-brace-tropical-storm-elsas-impact
[14] https://www.accuweather.com/en/hurricane/tropical-storm-elsa-forecast-landfall-in-florida-us/974557
[15] https://www.sej.org/calendar/crafting-winning-pitch-follow
[16] https://www.sej.org/fej-funded-stories-by-topic
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/utah-fireworks-law-sparks-confusion-amid-drought-wildfire-risks
[18] https://bnanews.bna.com/environment-and-energy/utah-fireworks-law-sparks-confusion-amid-drought-wildfire-risks
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[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1321
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1318
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1319
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1320
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=1323
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