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Crowley Fuels pays $1.3 million for environmental, public safety violations in Alaska

By Bill Dunbar | EPA on Dec 17, 2020   Featured, General News, Southeast Alaska  

Crowley Fuels pays $1.3 million for environmental, public safety violations in Alaska

(Seattle) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has settled a significant case against Crowley Fuels of Alaska for violations of federal environmental laws at the company’s bulk gasoline storage facilities in Juneau, Ketchikan, Douglas, and Palmer. The company has agreed to pay a penalty of $1,337,365. EPA found that Crowley failed to install vapor emissions […]

Data Omission in Key EPA Insecticide Study Shows Need for Review of Industry Analysis

By Jake Ellison | University of Washington on Aug 21, 2020   Featured, Health, National, National/World  

Data Omission in Key EPA Insecticide Study Shows Need for Review of Industry Analysis

  For nearly 50 years, a statistical omission tantamount to data falsification sat undiscovered in a critical study at the heart of regulating one of the most controversial and widely used pesticides in America. Chlorpyrifos, an insecticide created in the late 1960s by the Dow Chemical Co., has been linked to serious health problems, especially in […]

Mosquitoes are Drawn to Flowers as much as People — and now Scientists Know Why

By James Urton | University of Washington on Jan 28, 2020   Featured, Science/Education  

Mosquitoes are Drawn to Flowers as much as People — and now Scientists Know Why

  Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to lay eggs. And without that sense of smell, mosquitoes could not locate their dominant source of food: nectar from flowers. “Nectar is an important source of food for all […]

Trump: US, Allies Launch Strike Against Syria’s Chemical Weapons

By VOA on Apr 13, 2018   Featured, National/World, World  

Trump: US, Allies Launch Strike Against Syria’s Chemical Weapons

President Trump announced Friday night “a combined operation” by the U.S., France and Britain against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, aimed at ending his government’s use of chemical weapons. Explosions lit up the skies over Damascus, the Syrian capital, as Trump spoke from the White House. Syrian television reported that Syria’s air defenses, […]

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