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About a third of the way into the film Dark Waters, Rob Bilott, played by Mark Ruffalo, is lying in bed with his eyes open, looking anxious.
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Maine’s toxicologist isn’t alarmed by the results of an extensive air monitoring program, but people living near South Portland’s petroleum tank farms are panicking.
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The greatest trick companies ever played was making us think we could recycle their products.
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Environmental justice advocates and indigenous groups argue that emissions trading leaves the poor bearing the brunt of pollution.
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After decades of steadily declining, air pollution is once again on the rise in the United States. Between 2016 and 2018, pollution of fine particulate matter — tiny particles that are emitted whenever we burn anything — rose by more than 5 percent.
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As the U.S. government, as well as far too many Americans, remain fixated on the decidedly minor threat of Islamist “terrorism,” two actual global existential perils persist and are hardly addressed.
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A ban will take place in the new year, followed by crackdowns on straws and grocery bags.
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The Santa Ana winds that help drive fall and winter wildfires in California have died down, providing welcome relief for residents. But other ecological factors contribute to fires in ways that scientists are still discovering.
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His analysis is both informative and humorous – a perfect way to spur people to action.
read moreWhy (Some) Automakers Are Work...
The Los Angeles Auto Show is just wrapping up, but while my colleague Dave Reichmuth was there getting a sneak peek at what the next couple years have in store, California’s emissions regulators were absent for the first time in 50 years.
read moreThe alarming trend of beached ...
The whales that were found washed ashore are just the tip of the iceberg.
read moreSea Level in the Gulf of Maine...
Residents already worried about fumes from their waterfront’s giant oil tanks want to know what happens in the event of a disaster— and what about sea level rise?
read moreEarth’s carbon dioxide levels ...
Call the Guinness Book: It’s been at least three million years since CO2 was this high
read moreIndia’s Ominous Future: Too Li...
Decades of short-sighted government policies are leaving millions defenseless in the age of climate disruptions – especially the country’s poor.
read moreIRAQI CHILDREN BORN NEAR U.S. ...
MORE THAN A decade and a half after the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, a new study found that babies are being born today with gruesome birth defects connected to the ongoing American military presence there.
read moreGlobal 5G wireless deal threat...
Meteorologists say international standards for wireless technology could degrade crucial satellite measurements of water vapour.
read moreSan Francisco’s Quest to Make ...
‘Zero Waste’ might be the impossible dream, but San Francisco isn’t giving up.
read moreA Wet Year Causes Farm Woes Fa...
The damage from the destructive spring flooding in the Midwest has been followed in parts of the country by a miserable autumn that is making a bad farming year worse, with effects that could be felt into next spring.
read moreTimebomb’: Fires devastate tig...
Another heavy fire season in Indonesia has taken a toll on the country’s remaining forest. In Sembilang National Park, on the island of Sumatra, fires raged into primary forest that provides vital habitat for critically endangered Sumatran tigers and elephants.
read moreGot flight shame? Would you pa...
Flight shame — that guilty feeling for traveling by air because of its large impact on the climate — is making some customers think twice before flying.
read moreHow to Save the Planet and Our...
If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse.”
read moreCan solar power help prevent C...
Most reports on climate change are filled with dire warnings for our future. The consensus is that the earth is getting progressively warmer, and our energy-consumption habits have had a direct impact on that.
read more60% of Toxic Superfund Sites T...
Hundreds of polluted sites face an increased risk of inundation from sea level rise, flooding exacerbated by global warming, or wildfires, Congress’s watchdog warns.
read moreAs Climate Risk Grows, Cities ...
Glimpsed from a kayak on West Neck Creek, this swampy piece of land, a pocket of red maple and loblolly pine tucked behind growing subdivisions, doesn’t look like the stuff of existential debate.
read moreIndonesia’s food supply ...
An eye-opening report reveals how low-grade plastics are burned as fuel, poisoning the surrounding soil and air.
read moreDwindling tropical rainforests...
Growing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.
read moreWhy We Need to Fight for Recyc...
This America Recycles Day, take the #BeRecycled pledge and help keep our ocean – and our planet – healthy
read moreCap and Trade Is Supposed to S...
Countries have called California’s cap-and-trade program the answer to climate change. But it is just as vulnerable to lobbying as any other legislation. The result: The state’s biggest oil and gas companies have actually polluted more since it started.
read moreEven States With Green Activis...
“Inslee and Brown are doing everything politically feasible.”
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