Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Tag: environment

A growing presence of ‘forever chemicals’ in California produce, new study

According to Environmental Working Group, 37 percent of California-grown produce samples contained at least one of 17 different PFAS pesticide residues.

US Forest Service stops issuing firefighter pants that contain PFAS, following...

Despite knowing about the use of PFAS, officials with the Forest Service had not previously informed wildland firefighters about it.

A warming planet makes nor’easters & other storms more intense: Climate...

With its defunding of scientific infrastructure across the country, “the Trump administration is truly putting Americans in harm’s way.”

The oil industry’s latest disaster: Trillions of gallons of buried toxic...

Industry and regulators knew decades ago that injecting drilling’s toxic liquid leftovers underground wasn’t safe.

Chemical giant to discontinue production of herbicide with active ingredient in...

Because it contains a mix of an active ingredient in Agent Orange and glyphosate, Enlist Duo is said to be one of the most dangerous herbicides still used on food crops.

EPA reapproves drift-prone pesticide dicamba

This decision will allow farmers in 34 states to use the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant soybeans and cotton, following a 2024 court ruling that had previously vacated its use.

The War intervention: AI, data centers, and the environment 

This increasingly inextricable partnership between AI and the war economy is throwing us into a fast track of climate and environmental chaos that threatens us all.

The hidden costs of light pollution: Protecting the night for people...

Communities can balance safety, cultural life, and ecological health by designing nighttime lighting that protects both people and the natural world.

We’re racing down the highway to a Mad Max World

There’s a Degrowth Exit Up Ahead.

The next frontier of climate accountability: Making Big Food pay its...

The “polluter pays” principle transformed the energy industry half a century ago. Now, as industrial agriculture drives climate breakdown, deforestation, and water scarcity, experts say it’s time to apply the same rule to our food systems—and make corporations, not consumers, bear the cost of the damage.

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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things

Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death. 

Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.

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.

‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...

More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.

Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!

So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.