EPA Bureaucrat Latest to Resign Over Flint's Poisoned Water

This afternoon, the Environmental Protection Agency accepted the resignation of Susan Hedman, who as Region 5 administrator oversaw the section of the country that includes Flint, Mich.

This afternoon, the Environmental Protection Agency accepted the resignation of Susan Hedman, who as Region 5 administrator oversaw the section of the country that includes Flint, Mich.

The governors of Colorado and New Mexico declared states of emergency on Monday after a federal clean-up crew accidentally dumped three million gallons of toxic wastewater into the Animas River, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Employees at the United States Environmental Protection Agency don't care so much about their own workplace environment, apparently. Earlier this year, management at the Region 8 facility in Denver had to email staff to tell them to stop shitting in the hallways.
The Supreme Court had to quietly correct Justice Antonin Scalia's scathing dissent in an environmental case yesterday after critics pointed out he made a glaring factual error.
Hahaha! Barack Obama made a funny joke in his State of the Union speech last night about how dumb the EPA was for forcing dairy farmers to have containment plans spelling out what to do if their massive milk facilities spring a leak. Stupid EPA! It's just "spilt milk," amirite? Milk is good for you, and you shouldn't…
If a government shutdown happens, it'll be because Republicans are demanding policy restrictions in addition to spending cuts before agreeing to fund the government through September. These policy restrictions would target abortion providers and seek to limit the reach of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Gun-totin' Texas governor Rick Perry is taking on the hippies in California with his brand of fast talkin', straight shootin' politics. He hopes to crush their dreams of a pollution-free utopian society by suing the Environmental Protection Agency.
If you're like me, you may have just *assumed* that if a chemical is being manufactured in large quantities and placed in your breakfast cereal, there would be *some* evidence that it will not kill you. Not true at all!
The Senate has voted down a measure preventing the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, 53-47.