Tag: environment
Pesticides are killing off the andean condor
Livestock owners needlessly fear these massive South American birds—and lure them to their deaths with illegal poisons. Extinction countdown is on.
Critics: Trump EPA’s formal assertion glyphosate poses no risk to human...
"The EPA's pesticide office is clearly willing to bend over backwards, including disregarding its own guidelines for evaluating cancer risks, to give the industry what it wants."
New study confirms ‘no safe level’ of air pollution protects against...
"Our study supports recent evidence that there is no safe level of air pollution—finding an increased risk of cardiac arrest despite air quality generally meeting the standards."
Dungeness crabs’ shells are dissolving from the severity of Pacific Ocean...
"We were really surprised to see this level of dissolution happening."
Trump administration to strip clean water protection putting the country’s water...
"Waters that have been protected for almost 50 years will no longer be protected under the Clean Water Act."
How corporate lawyers made it harder to punish companies that destroy...
Federal judges were penalizing big companies for destroying emails and other evidence. So the companies lobbied to have the rules changed. Since then, a ProPublica analysis shows, the rate at which judges issue penalties has fallen by more than half.
The fate of the Earth
Climate change, after all, looks to be nature’s slo-mo version of nuclear war.
Lake Erie turns toxic every summer. Officials aren’t cracking down on...
Voluntary fixes for the growing — and global — hazardous algae problem aren’t working.
Corporate ‘cage-free’ commitments are only meaningful with accountability
Reducing the suffering of chickens can only happen if companies follow through on their promises.
Replacing coal with renewables could save energy customers $8 billion a...
“We conducted an in-depth, asset-by-asset assessment of the coal fleet in the U.S. and found that >70 GWs of coal capacity will become economically at risk through the course of the next decade.”