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Confirming a New Boss at EPA
Ms. McCarthy will be a vital player in the effort to protect our families and environment. It is critical that the Senate move quickly to confirm her.
Read MoreFriday Finds: Flying High on Flame Retardants
Airplanes may contain high flame retardants levels New research has found that commercial airliners contain high levels of flame retardants, a suite of chemicals that have been under fire lately due to concerns over health hazards, reports Environmental Health News. Because having a plane catch fire mid-air could be disastrous, federal regulators require that all…
Read MoreWave Heights Will Wane From Climate Change
“Surf’s up!” These two words have sparked countless scenes of surfers worldwide frantically gathering boards, leashes and friends in excited rushes to the ocean in the hopes of catching a few big waves. However, a recent study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, “Projected changes in wave climate from a multi-model ensemble”, indicates that…
Read MoreGoing to Extremes is Bad Energy Policy
Just as clean, renewable energy is lifting off and the impacts of climate disruption become ever more visible, fossil energy production is becoming dramatically more extreme. But extreme fossil energy production is exactly what we don’t need. In just the last two years, I have seen the Louisiana coast’s oil-slicked marshes after the Deepwater Horizon…
Read MoreEPA Shares Water Priorities, Action Timelines on Twitter
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency that 55 percent of U.S. streams and rivers are in “poor” condition, according to its most recent national rivers and streams assessment.
Read MoreRenowned Scientist Quits NASA Over Climate
Dr. James Hansen has never been shy about standing up for his scientific principles. In 1988, speaking before Congress, Dr. Hansen laid out a blunt truth, “It is time to stop waffling so much and say that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is here.” The statement caused an eruption of controversy,…
Read MoreHappy Birthday, Cesar E. Chavez
Injustices plague farmworkers while administration turns a blind eye
Read MoreIt's Game Over for Foes of National Forests
Time has run out for the enemies of roadless wilderness. They spent 12 years trying to kill the national law protecting our forests, and yesterday a federal district court said they couldn’t have a minute more—the statute of limitations had run out.
Read MoreFriday Finds: Kraft’s Blue Box Chemical Blues
Bloggers think chemicals in macaroni are cheesy
Read MoreArctic Whales, Shell Execs & Spider Legs
This comes on the heels of a report from the Department of Interior, which summarized a 60-day investigation into Shell’s 2012 Arctic Ocean drilling season and was highly critical of the oil giant’s operations.
At a press conference announcing the findings, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar declared that Shell had “screwed up,” and the report concluded: