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Chlorpyrifos is acutely toxic and associated with neurodevelopmental harms in children

Three days before oral arguments are scheduled in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Bureau of Land Management safety measures to regulate fracking operations on public lands, the U.S. Department of Interior is moving ahead with its plan to rescind the 2015 rule.

The World Wildlife Fund For Nature (WWF) applauds a decision by the European Commission to take Poland to European Court of Justice on on 13 July ,2017, because of the increased logging in the Bialowieza Forest in breach of EU law. The EU Commission also decided on interim measures which will stop the wood extraction until the court’s judgement, preventing further destruction of Bialowieza’s natural resources.

As unsustainable fishing rates and practices continue to pressure multiple Eastern Pacific tuna populations, WWF is calling on governments to agree on long-term conservation and management measures for the international fishery, which is valued at $1 billion USD.

Over 300 professionals across Africa are now prepared to respond to a nuclear or radiological emergency, as a result of an IAEA workshop held in May 2015. The national courses organized by the participants of that train-the-trainers workshop in Khartoum, Sudan have significantly boosted several African countries’ readiness for such events, said Elena Buglova, Head of the IAEA’s Incident and Emergency Centre.

Washington’s King County is one of only 12 communities nationwide selected for the first round of funding under a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency loan aimed at helping spark investment in critical infrastructure projects across the country.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to decide on whether to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used agricultural pesticide linked to damaging the developing brains of children with reduced IQ, loss of working memory and attention deficit disorders.

Several proposals are moving through the House and Senate this week that threaten imperiled gray wolves and undermine the nation’s most important wildlife conservation law, the Endangered Species Act.

The House of Representatives unveiled a 2018 fiscal budget proposal that includes instructions to the Natural Resources Committee to identify $5 billion in savings over the next ten years, signaling an effort to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling.