Tag: pollution
Miami bans the use of glyphosate in a step to improve...
Miami now joins Miami Beach and Stuart, two cities in Florida who have also banned glyphosate.
Top 10 most contaminated groundwater sites revealed in first major coal...
The report contains examples of several well-documented instances of residential tap water contaminated by coal ash.
#DrillingisKilling: Surfrider Foundation releases video to inform public of Trump administration’s...
The Trump administration's new plan to expand offshore oil drilling will impact thousands of miles of coastline and the coastal life as many have...
Photo essay: The military is poisoning America’s groundwater
But the Pentagon assumes no liability and refuses to pay for cleaning up the contamination it has caused.
National parks overflow with trash, human waste as gov’t shutdown approaches...
Park experts are now warning that the damage may take years to undo.
The EPA has backed off enforcement under Trump – here are...
Combined with regulatory rollbacks and structural weakening of the EPA, the steep declines in enforcement nearly across the board show that Trump’s EPA is on what we consider a dangerous path.
EU to ban common single-use plastics to address environment and marine...
"Europe now has a legislative model to defend and promote at international level, given the global nature of the issue of marine pollution involving plastics."
If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you...
In other words, if someone could collect and recycle all the unrecycled plastic on earth, this person would be richer than any individual on the planet.
Trump administration aims to strip Clean Water Act, opening up waterways...
The Trump administration has been attacking the Clean Water Act and the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule since coming into power.
The smoke’s gone, but hearts and lungs still may be in...
The long-term effects of breathing this cocktail are unknown.
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DNC leaders are pretending that U.S. weapons don’t enable the slaughter in Gaza
DNC leaders move to block arms embargo resolution as youth Democrats demand action on Gaza.
The case for Palestine
Uncovering the history of ethnic cleansing and U.S. complicity behind Israel’s assault on Gaza.
Trump threatens Chicago with federal takeover despite falling crime
Democrats decry a “manufactured crisis” as the White House touts a post-DC crackdown and eyes Chicago, despite data showing declining violent crime.
Nasser Hospital bombing in Gaza kills four journalists and other civilians
Attack on Khan Younis hospital leaves at least 19 dead as rights groups denounce a pattern of systematic targeting of media and medical facilities.
‘The West Bank is the prize’: Israel approves new settlements to ‘bury’ Palestinian State
The “E-1” settlement would see the construction of about 3,400 new housing units and would sever one of the last remaining territorial links between major Palestinian cities like Ramallah in the northern West Bank and southern cities including Bethlehem, as well as cut off East Jerusalem.