Environment

"The Environmental Protection Agency now has an opportunity to strengthen our national, health-based standards for ground-level ozone."

“We are trapped in history.”

This culture of access has had real environmental consequences.

American conservationists have said and done terribly racist things over the years. Now is the opportunity to center justice.

“It has everything to do with corporations degrading the environmental quality of communities and the communities themselves."

The decision is just the latest defeat of Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's attempts to curb emissions from the coal industry and other fossil fuel businesses, ignoring public opinion and scientists who agree that fossil fuel extraction is contributing to the rapid warming of the planet.

“Education, the implementation of polar bear-proof methods of waste storage, law enforcement and the provision of adequate resources at the community level are required to mitigate this potentially increasing problem.”

Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.

Reusing fracking wastewater not only can have high levels of salts and chemical contaminants, but it also can be radioactive.

Emails show that extent to which Energy Transfer Partners went to hire firms to discredit the Standing Rock water protectors.