Tag: environment
This boot camp trains young people to fight plastic pollution
“It just goes to show the power of radical collaboration and the energy around this crisis.”
Pruitt’s parting attack on America’s air could cost 1,600 lives
"Pruitt and Wheeler are creating a loophole for super polluting freight trucks that will fill our children's lungs with toxic diesel pollution, ignoring public comments from moms and leading businesses across the country."
As Scott Pruitt resigns, former EPA Officials warn his radical, anti-science...
During his tenure, Pruitt undertook a radical effort to reshape the EPA.
Diet, ignorance and the environmental crisis
Awareness is the critical ingredient in change, individually and collectively.
A correlation between air pollution and diabetes found in new study...
"Evidence shows that current levels are still not sufficiently safe and need to be tightened.”
As industry pushes billion-dollar fracked petrochemical projects, state regulators struggle to...
“I’m really worried when you see this kind of very large investment and then we try to play catch-up on evaluating what the risks and the impacts on people are.”
Oil companies and lobbyists say they’re ready to solve climate change....
But when one examines the fine print of the deal – and the financial benefits flowing to some of the people touting it – the effort looks much less utopian.
Tropical forests lost 40 football fields of tree cover per minute...
That amounts to 40 football fields worth of trees cut every minute of last year in a devastating blow to biodiversity and the global climate.
Derailed train spills 230,000 gallons of crude into flooded Iowa river
Rock Valley acted quickly to shut off water wells following the spill and plans to drain the wells and use rural water until the well water tests safe.
House passes farm bill – ‘rewards mega-agribusinesses and Wall Street,’ not...
"The GOP Farm Bill is a disaster for people and the planet."