Casey Coates Danson, President and Founder
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Margaret Mead
Red Cross to World’s Cities: Here’s How to Prevent Heat Wave Deaths
One of the largest disaster relief agencies on Tuesday had a message for the world’s mayors: Heat waves are getting more intense on a hotter planet, but they don’t have to be deadly if city officials take simple and often inexpensive steps.
What would a world without sharks be like?
At the rate we’re killing them, we may soon see it firsthand.
‘Toxic Stew’ Stirred Up by Disasters Poses Long-Term Danger, New Findings Show
New research shows that the extreme weather and fires of recent years, similar to the flooding that has struck Louisiana and the Midwest, may be making Americans sick in ways researchers are only beginning to understand.
10 Ways Andrew Wheeler Has Decimated EPA Protections in Just One Year
On July 8, President Trump hosted a White House event to unabashedly tout his truly abysmal environmental record.
Meet the guy swimming through the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Ben Lecomte is swimming through tons of plastic. Pieces of it have gotten stuck to his face. He’s passed abandoned fishing nets that tangle and kill wildlife. He’s held pieces of broken storage crates blooming with algae and barnacles. And he wants us to see it all — so we know what we’ve done to the planet.
E.P.A. Plans to Curtail the Ability of Communities to Oppose Pollution Permits
The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to weaken rules that for the past quarter-century have given communities a voice in deciding how much pollution may legally be released by nearby power plants and factories.
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