"Hundreds of municipal water supplies throughout Michigan may have unsafe levels of an emerging, persistent chemical compound once used in nonstick surfaces. But the State of Michigan, critics contend, is using outdated measuring criteria — meaning hundreds of communities have levels of the chemical that Michigan says are safe, but other studies show may be harmful."
"Bots and Russian trolls spread misinformation about vaccines on Twitter to sow division and distribute malicious content before and during the American presidential election, according to a new study."
"Natural gas pipeline companies are being pulled in three different directions as federal agencies mull how to handle new security threats to an increasingly vital resource."
"The Trump administration is assailing the science behind an influential study that helped lead to a ban on a widely used insecticide linked to brain damage in children, mirroring arguments made by the pesticide industry."
"SYDNEY — Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was removed from power on Friday by conservative elements of own his center-right Liberal Party unhappy with an attempt to set targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by the world’s biggest coal exporter."
"The number of U.S. lawsuits brought against Bayer’s newly acquired Monsanto has jumped to about 8,000, as the German drugmaker braces for years of legal wrangling over alleged cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers."
"As the dog-sized creatures destroy wetlands and dig through levees, officials have a goal: total extermination".
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is canceling public hearings slated for Washington, D.C., Detroit and Los Angeles to discuss its proposed weakening of Obama-era vehicle efficiency standards."
"A government watchdog is absolving former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt of any wrongdoing after critics questioned his involvement in an advertisement for beef."
"President Trump claimed that coal was “indestructible,” that West Virginia had one of the strongest state economies and that the U.S. was the “cleanest country in the planet.” None of that was true."
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