Tag: pollution
The case for global climate reparations
The principle of making polluters pay works at a local level. Here's how to apply it to the international arena.
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.
The world’s oceans face triple planetary crisis: Report
The EU-funded report draws on decades of historical and current observational data as well as satellite measurements to create a resource for policymakers, scientists and citizens to more fully understand the challenges facing the world’s oceans.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin moves to rescind ‘legal foundation for all...
The move was anticipated. What has been anticipated has happened—and is happening.
Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding isn’t simple and could have unintended consequences
The Trump administration is trying to eliminate it.
Rethinking climate action: A new guideline for planetary health
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.
Huge pollution footprint flows from commercial communications satellites in orbit
Scientists are asking if the United States is prepared to handle the impacts.
Trump administration dismantles pollution protections and deletes public data as EPA...
Environmental groups sue over deletion of climate and justice tools while polluters receive fast-tracked exemptions from EPA oversight.
Trump’s EPA cancels $20 billion in climate grants, dismantling key emissions...
Trump’s EPA cancels $20 billion in clean energy grants, halting programs aimed at reducing emissions and expanding renewable energy access in under served communities.
Microplastics in human placentas linked to premature births
Researchers analyzed 175 placentas collected at both term and preterm, or under 37 weeks of pregnancy, and measured the amounts of 12 different microplastics and nanoplastics.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.