Mercury Poisoning

Last week, the White House and EPA launched a dangerous proposal that would ease restrictions on mercury pollution. This was the first official move in a play to undermine the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards: a lifesaving, fully implemented, effective pollution prevention rule – one...

This was written by Mandy Warner, senior manager of Climate and Air Policy at EDF: In 1990, while I was busy with kid priorities like learning to roller-skate, Congress was updating the Clean Air Act – kicking off a process to reduce mercury and other...

This is a guest post by author, Ayelet Waldman: When my daughter Sophie was four years old, she was, in many ways, a Jewish mother’s dream. Her favorite lunch wasn’t pizza or hamburgers or chicken McNuggets. My little girl loved nothing better than a tuna sandwich...

Our children’s brains develop rapidly as they move through their toddler years and beyond; their lungs pump faster and they breathe more air compared to adults, and their little beloved hearts beat faster than adult hearts do. They’re crawling around on the floor, so they’re...

How dare they. Trump’s EPA — under the leadership of acting head, Andrew Wheeler — has hit its lowest, most cynical level in its radical agenda to destroy protections against pollution. And that’s saying a lot, given that every single week, EPA lobs over a shocking new rollback....