EPA Approved Pesticide that Harmed Honeybees

The EPA approved the insecticide sulfoxaflor despite insufficient data documenting its environmental safety and ignoring the EPA’s own ecological assessment that showed that it is harmful to bee populations.

USGS Cancels Study on Coal Mining

To keep in line with the Obama administration’s priorities, leaders at the USGS pulled funding for a research project that examined the public health effects of mountaintop removal coal mining.