Tag: water pollution
Toxic chemicals found in rainwater and drinking water throughout the US
"When your water is polluted with toxic PFAS, it's not much comfort to know who is polluting it."
The fracking industry’s water nightmare
Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry, and that is something the industry won’t be able to ignore.
Tons of plastic trash enter the Great Lakes every year –...
According to recent estimates, over 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans every year.
Tell Tyson Foods to clean up its pollution
Sign the petition to tell Tyson Foods to clean up their pollution and stop polluting our waterways.
China invests $100B in water clean-up projects
For the people's sake, let’s hope China is able to meet their 2017 goals, and perhaps inspire other countries to follow suit.
After Lead Contamination in House Office Building’s Water, Lawmakers Demand EPA...
61 representatives are demanding the EPA improves its lead regulations after learning that the drinking water in one of the Congressional office buildings had been shut off due to lead contamination.
Meat Is Murdering American Rivers
Government data shows that food processing plants are the biggest toxic polluters of waterways in the U.S.
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.