Tag: pollution
Instead of reshaping domestic waste management, US asks China to lift...
"We hope that the U.S. can reduce and manage hazardous waste and other waste of its own and take up more duties and obligations."
Great Pacific Garbage Patch rapidly growing larger than twice the size...
We must deal with the problem of plastic pollution – before it's too late.
Federal judge rules Pruitt ‘knowingly’ violated Ozone Standards law
"This is a victory for everyone who breathes, and is clear evidence that Scott Pruitt's frequent attempts to delay and obstruct federal clean air safeguards is against the law."
Ocean plastic projected to triple within seven years
"The sea bed is teeming with life. We really need a mission to planet ocean – it's the last frontier."
Junk planet: Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the universe?
We can contribute to the ongoing creation of Earth as the planet of junk. Or we can use our conscience, intelligence and determination to guide us in resisting the destruction of our world.
Court orders Trump administration to enforce Obama-era methane rule
Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for Northern California ruled that the Bureau of Land Management's decision was "untethered to evidence."
3M to pay Minnesota $850M in surprise settlement over chemical disposal
"3M fought for almost a decade ... spending hundreds of millions on lawyers to dodge their way around the law ... but today became their day of reckoning!"
Ending pollution requires a major change in attitudes
Its up to us, each and every one of us to consciously live in an environmentally responsible manner.
Big oil invests $180B in plastics, merging two planet-killing industries
"There is a deep and pervasive relationship between oil and gas companies and plastics."
EPA holding its only public hearing on clean power plan repeal...
The EPA will receive online comments about its proposal and any requests for additional public meetings until Jan. 16.
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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’
I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.
Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model
Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.
Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool
Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.
What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...
Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.
Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...
As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.