WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A chemistry industry association has accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of controlling an outside group tasked with reviewing the agency’s proposed regulations on formaldehyde by stocking it with friendly scientists and limiting public access and comment on its work.
Colombia’s vast forest is fast receding, partly because guerrillas and criminals are clearing land for farming, ranching and other pursuits. These unregulated activities are causing both dire environmental harm and deadly conflict. Bogotá should take urgent steps to halt the damage.