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The EPA wants to expand the use of two pesticides that could be a major threat to America’s bee population, farms and the nation’s food supply. That’s the charge being made by the Center for Food Safety and beekeepers. The ...

A landmark Harvard study says that neonicotinoids – the dominant ingredient found in many popular insecticides which treats much of the corn in the US — are to blame for colony collapse disorder in the honeybee population. The Environmental Protection ...

The EPA’s latest effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions could devastate the American economy and US businesses by phasing out major sources of energy, a number of industry and business groups are warning. One of those major sources of energy ...

New water way rules proposed by the EPA could devastate homesteaders, farmers, ranchers and other rural property owners, US Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota) says. The agency’s attempt to expand its jurisdiction over wetlands and water ways could make it ...

The Environmental Protection Agency’s own inspector general has admitted that the agency didn’t tell human “guinea pigs” the potential dangers of breathing in diesel fumes in an experiment. An inspector general’s report issued on March 31 verifies a story about ...

A Wyoming man is facing a $75,000 a day fine from the Environmental Protection Agency because he built a stock pond on his own property. The agency claims private landowner Andrew Johnson violated the Clean Water Act by building the ...

Residents of one American state would have a legal right to use wood to heat their homes if a group of state legislators get their way. The Missouri measure, H.B. 1302, is being proposed in light of an Environmental Protection ...

With the 2013-2014 propane shortage in the United States, interest in wood-burning stoves has increased. Although wood burning stoves may not heat a home as efficiently as a propane powered central heating system, they are simple, reliable and easy to operate. ...

The Obama Administration’s rules requiring “clean coal” technology in power plants could increase electricity costs by 70 percent to 80 percent in some parts of the country. That admission was made to a Congressional committee by Julio Friedmann, the deputy ...

Homeowners in one Midwest state now have to get a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency if they want to install a septic system, a regulation that involves paperwork, government oversight and potentially hundreds of dollars – and it’s not ...