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Ask a Scientist: New UCS Federal Scientist Survey Shows Real Progress

Union of Concerned Scientists

Roughly half of the survey respondents at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now say they have a more effective workplace than they did two years before, for example. That’s a 13 to 20 percent jump from what FDA scientists told us in five previous surveys going back to 2006. Only 5 percent said so in our 2018 survey.

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Calling Out Climate Lies for a Living

Union of Concerned Scientists

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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The Supreme Court Ruled Against Wetlands in 2023. We Can Still Save Them.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. In 2019, under the Trump administration, the EPA and the Army repealed the Obama-era definition of WOTUS.

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Is Agrochemical Contamination Killing Nebraska’s Children?

Circle of Blue

Politically powerful farm lobbies, preferring voluntary measures to curb nutrient pollution, have held off oversight under the Clean Water Act and other statutes. Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. Coulter has a particularly keen interest. He was 19 when he died. If the U.S.

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Locals Aim Their Protest at Weapons Maker Raytheon in Support of Palestine

Corp Watch

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.

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15 people arrested during peaceful 'free Palestine' protest in Louisville

Corp Watch

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.

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Raytheon Makes Nuclear War More Likely

Corp Watch

Securities and Exchange Commission | 2006 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has instituted settled enforcement proceedings against Raytheon Company (Raytheon), its former Chairman and CEO, Daniel P. Environmental Protection Agency today ordered the Raytheon Company and the U.S.