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New emails reveal CDC employees were doing the bidding of Coca-Cola

Instead of protecting Americans' health, insiders at the CDC were dutifully helping Coke sell sugar water.

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Toxics

EPA: Wheeler's ex-firm lobbied agency on efforts he oversees

A former colleague of acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler repeatedly met with top EPA officials about toxic waste sites and regulations that Wheeler now controls, newly released emails show.

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Climate

Scott Pruitt: After the high life, a job hunt

Forced to resign amid ethics probes, the former Oklahoma attorney general is among those whose rise was derailed after joining the Trump administration.

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Climate

Ryan Zinke to step down as Interior secretary

Zinke shrunk national monuments, rolled back sage grouse protections and ramped up drilling.

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Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations

He was under intense pressure due to multiple probes of his conduct in office and personal dealings.

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Climate

Dark money paid new Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s salary for 3 years

Today, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Matthew G. Whitaker, who served as chief of staff for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, would replace his boss. Sessions was forced from office a day after the midterm elections, which were rough for climate and anti-fracking measures around the

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Trump’s pick to lead energy tech innovation program is invested in gas utilities and pipeline companies

A nominee to head a cutting-edge research program in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is personally invested in various natural gas-based utilities and gas pipeline companies.

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Water

INTERIOR: Who's meeting Zinke? His calendar doesn't say

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's schedule obscures whom he meets with and what he discusses. The calendar is supposed to serve as a proxy for Zinke's priorities and a guide to who influences his decisions.

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Opinion

Scott Pruitt is out, far too late

Pruitt's departure is only the beginning, says conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin.

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Opinion

Pruitt’s resignation is just the beginning

The damage he caused to the E.P.A., the federal government and the Trump administration will linger for years.

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Biodiversity

This ex-NRA lobbyist looks like a walking ethics violation for Zinke’s Interior Department

For years, Benjamin Cassidy pushed for change at Interior on behalf of the gun lobby. Now he holds a powerful post at the federal agency.

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Climate

Scott Pruitt’s rocky relationship with his aides set the stage for His fall

He built an extraordinary team of like-minded officials at the E.P.A. only to watch many of them question his actions or depart amid scandals.

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Water

EPA interim chief lobbied for company seeking EPA contracts

One of the energy companies that the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency worked for as a lobbyist is seeking contracts from the agency, raising questions among environmentalists about whether he can put his past behind him as he becomes the nation's top environmental protector.

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The E.P.A.’s ethics officer once defended Pruitt. Then he urged investigations.

The ethics official had said Scott Pruitt’s $50-a-night condo rental appeared to be appropriate. But he later learned that the landlord’s husband was lobbying the agency.

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From our Newsroom

New emails reveal CDC employees were doing the bidding of Coca-Cola

EPA: Wheeler's ex-firm lobbied agency on efforts he oversees

Scott Pruitt: After the high life, a job hunt

Ryan Zinke to step down as Interior secretary

Interior Secretary Zinke resigns amid investigations

Dark money paid new Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s salary for 3 years

Trump’s pick to lead energy tech innovation program is invested in gas utilities and pipeline companies

INTERIOR: Who's meeting Zinke? His calendar doesn't say

New EPA chief is already facing two ethical problems in his first week, echoing Scott Pruitt

Scott Pruitt is out, far too late

Pruitt’s resignation is just the beginning

This ex-NRA lobbyist looks like a walking ethics violation for Zinke’s Interior Department

Scott Pruitt’s rocky relationship with his aides set the stage for His fall

EPA interim chief lobbied for company seeking EPA contracts

The E.P.A.’s ethics officer once defended Pruitt. Then he urged investigations.

The disturbing link between environmental racism and criminalization

How powerful institutions are criminalizing populations by locking people up and deeming them undeserving of clean air, water and healthy housing.

Bhopal nocturne

35 years after the chemical industry's worst accident, have we learned any lessons? A petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River suggests we haven't.

Federal tests 'dramatically' undercount BPA and other chemical exposures

Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies

Exposed: A scientific stalemate leaves our hormones and health at risk

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

Exposed: How willful blindness keeps BPA on shelves and contaminating our bodies

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

Coraopolis drinking water shows PFAS contamination among highest in Pennsylvania, but below federal advisory

PFAS contamination has previously been found at two nearby military bases.

How powerful institutions are criminalizing populations by locking people up and deeming them undeserving of clean air, water and healthy housing.

35 years after the chemical industry's worst accident, have we learned any lessons? A petrochemical buildout along the Ohio River suggests we haven't.

Researchers say federal agencies use highly inaccurate tests to estimate exposure to BPA—findings that extend to multiple other harmful chemicals that get into our bodies

American industry, aided by federal regulators, is conducting a large-scale, consequential experiment with our hormones and the developing brains and reproductive systems of our children.

EHN.org investigation finds regulatory push to discredit independent evidence of harm while favoring pro-industry science despite significant shortcomings.

PFAS contamination has previously been found at two nearby military bases.

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