Climate Change Laps at Our Doorstep

The island of Male, capital of Maldives Islands.

For the citizens of the nations represented by the Alliance of Small Island States, climate change is not an abstract threat. They face immediate danger today.

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Drilling Contamination Clear At Last in Pennsylvania

A fracking drill rig.

On Aug. 29, in a small step towards greater transparency, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection released agency response letters confirming 243 cases in which drinking water supplies were contaminated by oil and gas drilling since 2008.

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America To Benefit From Flame Retardant Victories

Sitting on a couch.

Two victories in California last week will soon make families – and firefighters – across America healthier. Both involve toxic flame retardant chemicals deliberately put into our couches, chairs and other furniture items.

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Right to Know Reader: Cancer-Causing Power Plants Might Be Closer Than You Think

The Evergreen Community Power Plant (located at bottom center in the above image) is a small power plant that emits toxic chemicals, including lead and mercury. But the nearby community may not even know it's there because the facility avoids public discl

Congress long ago recognized that we must deal with the cumulative risk from smaller polluters. In 1990, Congress passed amendments to the Clean Air Act directing EPA to reduce the cancer risk from these sources by at least 75 percent. Since the announcement of this goal, the EPA hasn’t done so well, and a recently released regulation demonstrates why.

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Valley Air District Will Miss Soot Deadline

Oil and gas fields in California's Central Valley.

Well, it happened. As we predicted back in June, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District officially has no hope of attaining the 1997 soot standard by the Dec. 31, 2014 deadline.

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