Saturday, August 16, 2025

Tag: pollution

Trump’s EPA weakens justification for life-saving mercury pollution rule

"This final rule will increase the risk of more kids with asthma and brain damage, and more people with cancer."

Burning fossil fuels made coronavirus death rate worse, and kills 200K...

Coal companies and Big Oil like ExxonMobil and all those fracking companies are thus killing off a million Americans every five years.

Decades of heavy air pollution could make some areas more likely...

"When we get to the other side, we need to have a real and honest conversation about the failure to tackle harmful air pollution."

EPA enforcement in distress — and more trouble is brewing

The White House has now quietly and ominously asked polluters to help identify new opportunities for deregulation.

LNG, plastics and other gas industry plans would add climate pollution...

“In short, reported emissions from oil, natural gas, and chemical infrastructure have increased in recent years, and new infrastructure that is still in the pipeline has the potential to increase emissions even more.”

As fracking companies face bankruptcy, US regulators enable firms to duck...

“Currently there is no way to treat, store, and release the billions of gallons of wastewater at the surface.”

New study names modern pollution a major cause of premature deaths...

"Pollution is an enormous and poorly addressed health problem."

Coal plants get a pass to pollute our waterways

"These dangerous attacks on the environment and our public health cannot be allowed to stand."

EPA disbanded a clean air science panel. We met anyway –...

The nongovernmental panel of experts found that particle pollution regulations aren’t protecting public health, but that's not the only worrying trend at EPA.

The Ocean Cleanup successfully collects ocean plastic, aims to scale design

The Ocean Cleanup announced that it has created a device that successfully captures plastic waste in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

POPULAR

Federal agents face protests after Trump orders unprecedented takeover of DC police

Residents denounce checkpoints and expanded federal presence as civil liberties advocates warn of authoritarian overreach.

America first is America alone

Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power.

Pesticides cause 2024 mass die-off of Western monarch butterflies, new study finds

The study was a result of researchers discovering the mass die-off of hundreds of monarch butterflies near the Pacific Grove Monarch Sanctuary in California, where the butterflies overwinter.

Will Trump-Putin summit leave Ukraine and Europe out in the cold?

If he repeats his past performances at summits with Putin and appears to back the Russian leader over his country’s closest allies, it is likely to cause a dangerous rift in the western alliance.

Sanders bill seeks to reverse Trump cuts to Social Security and curb billionaire influence

Ahead of Social Security’s 90th anniversary, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act to restore staff and services, add $5 billion for operations, and remove DOGE’s access to sensitive data while probing politicization at the agency.