Science

"In 2016, biologists and fishermen across the country started to notice something disturbing. Freshwater mussels were dying in large numbers."

"This time of year, pilots in small blue and white airplanes are busy gathering information about how much snow is on the ground — and more importantly, how much water that snow contains."

"Monsanto secretly funded academic studies indicating “very severe impacts” on farming and the environment if its controversial glyphosate weedkiller were banned, an investigation has found."

"The Trump administration’s decision to forgo a World Health Organization test and create its own had fateful consequences, experts say."

"The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a pandemic."

"The White House has released a working copy of EPA's latest controversial "secret science" proposal replete with red edits. The document shows there is a battle going on within the administration over what language to use on a rule that aims to retool the scientific research underpinning EPA policy."

"A series of missed chances by the federal government to ensure more widespread testing came during the early days of the outbreak, when containment would have been easier."

"The EPA’s preliminary conclusions that a widely used solvent poses no environmental risks “are misleading and must be modified,” the agency’s chemical advisers said Monday."

"An EPA advisory panel's sharp rebukes of the Trump administration's Clean Water Act protections and vehicle emissions standards have provided a partial blueprint for how critics could challenge the rules in court."