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For more than six months, twin brothers Ronald and Donald Schweitzer have watched large amounts of salty wastewater bubble up from the ground in their wheat field. The “saltwater purge” has killed three trees and several acres of crops on their northwest Oklahoma farm.
read moreOverharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.
read moreFor the first time in the history of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report, severe threats to the climate account for all five of the top spots for most likely long-term risks.
read moreThe French government has set a goal of eliminating all single-use plastics by 2040. Phase one has begun.
read moreIn the latest assault on science and the nation’s health and safety, the Trump administration recently proposed a rule that would upend the way federal agencies work to assess and minimize the harm their actions can do to the environment we all depend upon.
read moreIn early January, members of the Chesapeake Bay Commission sat in a gray conference room in Annapolis, Maryland, for a routine meeting.
read moreOver the next five years, it plans to eliminate shopping bags, straws, takeout food containers, and more.
read moreBig Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure high profit margins.
read moreLike it or not, the world will be flying more in the decades ahead—and flights are for many in the developed world the largest part of an individual’s (and often a business’s) carbon footprint.
read moreChildren from low-income families may be more susceptible to toxic environmental hazards such as lead exposure
read moreA federal appeals court has thrown out the landmark climate change lawsuit brought on behalf of young people against the federal government
read more“A Frankenstein material” is teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
read moreEach year, the US uses over 3 million trees and 9 billion gallons of water to make toxin-tainted paper receipts.
read moreIn recent days, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has floated the idea that the Senate might vote to dismiss the articles of impeachment against President Trump without ever holding a trial.
read moreTrump’s Gutting of Toxics Regulations Will Mean Higher Profits for Polluters and Higher Cancer Rates for the American People
read moreA Georgia town welcomed America’s largest coal plant. Now, residents worry it’s contaminating their water.
read moreIt’s not just a modern problem. Airborne toxins are so pernicious that they may have shaped human evolution.
read moreDOJ attorneys describe working with industry lawyers as a ‘team,’ raising questions about whether government was representing the American people.
read moreIf you have gone to Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s internet home page since mid-December, it would be reasonable to wonder if you had stumbled into some kind of parallel universe.
read moreEPA to ease rules on power plants storing deadly coal ash
read moreHere are some easy ways to live more gently on the earth. The key word here is “easy.”
read moreFrom firewood to solar-powered electricity, the resources we use to power our homes have drastically changed over the past 150 years and continue to evolve today.
read moreIt is nearly impossible to live in today’s world without having come across mention of the legendary Noam Chomsky.
read moreThe case for ambitious and transformative environmental policy is being made with increasing fervor and a series of “Green New Deals”—a reference to Roosevelt’s economic reform program in the 1930s—
read moreOn the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex proposed for the historically black area of St. James Parish.
read moreThe White House on Thursday introduced major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental assessment or consideration of climate change.
read moreThe Trump administration has pursued many controversial goals in managing U.S. public lands, including shrinking national monuments and cutting back protection for threatened species. Its latest disruptive move targets the government employees who oversee these resources.
read moreThe dizzying loss of forest land in the Amazon is the Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Decade.
read more‘Nobody saw it coming this soon,’ one scientist said. ‘It’s likely the forests won’t be coming back as we know them.’
read moreWhen President Trump signed a $1.4 trillion spending package in December to keep the government funded through 2020, there was a climate policy milestone buried in the budget. For the first time ever, the government allocated funding for a federal agency to conduct geoengineering research.
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