2018 wasn’t a completely horrible year for the environment
There were bright spots and victories among the attacks on biodiversity, climate and public health.
Divers find likely source of oil spill in Gulf of Mexico after Hurricane Ida
The spill is located 2 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana and has so far remained at sea and has not impacted the shoreline.
Air conditioning
Shaping the twentieth century, baking the twenty-first century.
EPA finalizes updates to National Ambient Air Quality Standards for particulate matter
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the final rule "will prevent up to 4,500 premature deaths and 800,000 cases of asthma symptoms per year."
Trade must be part of solution to plastic pollution, Global Trade Update reports
The report confirmed that while trade in plastic surpassed $1.1 trillion 75 percent of the plastic produced becomes waste and ends up in the world’s oceans and ecosystems.
Wastewater pollution: EPA moves to undo Trump’s weakening of coal plant requirements
Despite the change, the Biden administration said it does not plan to immediately reinstate the stricter requirements that were in effect before the rollback.
Revealed: Energy Transfer Partners’ ‘Pipeline-for-Prostitute’ Landman
New findings confirmed a land agent from the Texas company, Contract Land Staff, which was contracted by Energy Transfer Partners, was involved in a sex offer in exchange to build the controversial proposed Dakota Access pipeline. Say what?!
97% of Earth’s land no longer ecologically intact, study finds
“Conservation is simply not enough anymore. We need restoration.”
VIDEO: Naomi Klein: Obama Is Beginning to Sound Like a Climate Leader, When Will...
With the unveiling of his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from U.S. power plants, President Obama is beginning to sounds more like a climate leader. But will his actions follow?
Building collisions are killing as many as 1 billion birds a year in the...
The researchers analyzed the wildlife rehabilitation records of thousands of birds who had been involved in window collisions.