Environment

U.S. EPA Reaches Settlement on Tanker Truck Oil Spill in San Diego

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, on June 7th, announced a settlement with the SoCo Group, Inc., to resolve federal claims stemming from its 2016 oil spill in San Diego, California. SoCo, a petroleum marketing and distribution company based in...

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Groups Appeal EPA's Refusal To Ban Dangerous Pesticide

A dozen health, labor and civil rights organizations represented by Earthjustice filed an administrative appeal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Monday, urging the federal government to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used agricultural pesticide...

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Interior Order On Oil And Gas Drilling Puts Arctic Public

On May 31th, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke signed a Secretarial Order that threatens to open sensitive and irreplaceable public lands in Alaska’s Arctic for oil and gas development.

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Extension of gillnet ban will not save vaquita

The world’s most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita, remains under threat, despite the extension of a temporary ban on gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California, announced by the Government of Mexico, on May 31. WWF believes the current ban will not...

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