Under White House pressure, the EPA ordered the panel to ignore the findings of its own scientists that the chemical TCE causes fetal heart defects.
Sustainability
Posted inSustainability
https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/610_Reveal_PC.mp3
The refuge revealed
Oil rigs may soon be coming to the nation’s largest wildlife refuge. We find out what that could mean to the people who live there.
Posted inSustainability
https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/609_Reveal_PC.mp3
The tell-tale hearts
Trump’s deregulatory fervor bolsters the chemical industry and Defense Department’s effort to debunk the science linking TCE to fetal heart defects.
Posted inSustainability
EPA scientists found a toxic chemical damages fetal hearts. The Trump White House rewrote their assessment.
An internal scientific evaluation of TCE obtained by Reveal shows detailed interference by the Executive Office of the President.
Posted inSustainability
https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/608_Reveal_PC.mp3
Scuttling science
Advisory panels slashed, environmental regulations rolled back – how the Trump administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
Posted inInequality, Sustainability
https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/541_Reveal_PC.mp3
Losing ground
On this episode, Reveal investigates the claim of Eddie Wise, the son of a sharecropper, who says the USDA treated him unfairly because of his race.
Posted inThe Trump Era
https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/537_Reveal_PC.mp3
Scuttling science
Advisory panels slashed – environmental regulations rolled back. How the Trump Administration uses questionable science to justify its policies.
Posted inSustainability, The (Un)Scientific Method
https://d1m3w2qdkx2ozg.cloudfront.net/535_Reveal_PC_18.mp3
Farm wars
The herbicide dicamba is causing a civil war in farm country, honeybees are rustling in California’s almond groves and more.
Posted inEnvironment
Silencing science
President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has sought to silence scientists.
Posted inClimate Change
See how climate change could bring disaster to some popular coastal national parks
Researchers contracted by the National Park Service have projected what happen to some iconic national parks if greenhouse gases keep growing.