Democratic candidate Joe Biden revealed an aggressive green energy plan on Tuesday. While the package is designed to push America toward a 2035 carbon-free goal, the $2 trillion plan would also create new employment opportunities, ...
“This has the potential to be a major environmental disaster.” (By: Eoin Higgins, Common Dreams) Floodwaters unleashed by a dam failure in central Michigan have reached a Dow Chemical facility and Superfund site, the company ...
“This decision is a huge victory for clean water. The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to blow a big hole in the Clean Water Act’s protections for rivers, lakes, and oceans.” In ...
“As wildfire experts have repeatedly explained, you can’t log or even ‘rake’ our way out of this mess. The Trump administration and the interior department are pushing mystical theories that are false in order to ...
“The effects from exposure to complex organic and inorganic contaminant mixtures at low concentrations are poorly understood.” (Beyond Pesticides) Heavy rains in urban areas bring together a toxic mixture of man-made chemicals which make their ...
“This attempted power grab at the expense of state-based clean water oversight is the epitome of hypocrisy.” (By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams) Environmentalists on Friday denounced the Trump administration for once again attempting to boost ...
Dr. Geyer told the Guardian that plastic pollution, which usually ends up in landfills or oceans, will result in a “near-permanent contamination” of the earth. Two recent studies found plastic pollution to be worse than ...
Malaysian investigators work to clean up from a chemical waste dump and find the responsible parties. Fumes from chemical waste dumped in a river in the southern Malaysian state of Johor forced the closure of ...
“Our report proves that coal plants are poisoning groundwater nearly everywhere they operate.” (By Valerie Volcovici, Reuters) – More than 90 percent of U.S. coal-fired power plants that are required to monitor groundwater near their ...
Washington state residents could pass the nation’s first-ever carbon fee program this November. Residents in Washington will be voting on the Clean Air, Clean Energy Washington initiative in November and if it passes it will ...
Once making it into a home, pesticides will take much longer to degrade than in the outdoor environment in water or soil. (Beyond Pesticides) Pesticide residue doesn’t announce itself –it isn’t colored, it doesn’t glow ...
Results from a new study raise concern that air pollution could be harming unborn babies. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London in England announced they found pollution particles in the placenta of pregnant women ...
Scientists have predicted that the maximum number of people the Earth can sustain is somewhere between nine and ten billion. Current population is estimated to hit nine billion by the year 2050. So humans have ...
When Starbucks announced they would stop offering straws in all 28,000 locations by 2020 they probably expected a lot of praise. But they also announced that this would mean adopting a lid design that includes ...
“It doesn’t matter if they’re Democrat or Republican, it matters if they care about the agency’s mission and they do everything they can to accomplish the mission,” John O’Grady, Save the U.S. EPA. As each ...
Starbucks will globally phase out the use of plastic drinking straws by the end of next year, the corporation announced on July 9. The common green single-use straws will no longer be offered at Starbucks ...
Dear EarthTalk: What is “light pollution?” Is it really a factor in breast cancer? —Gudrun Smythe, Madison, Wisconsin (EARTHTALK, by Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer) The glow of city lights blotting out stars in the night sky ...
British and American scientists announced that they accidentally created a mutant enzyme which is extremely efficient at breaking down one of the world’s most popular plastics, polyethylene terephthalate, or PET. PET is one of the hardest substances ...
New reports provide an unprecedented look at contaminants leaking from coal ash ponds and landfills. But the chasm between information and environmental protection may deepen thanks to a proposed Trump administration rollback. (ProPublica, Talia Buford) ...
In October 2016 Vietnam air pollution levels skyrocketed to second worst in the world, things aren’t looking better a year and a half later. Hanoi residents were exposed to severely unhealthy ambient air quality for ...
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