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Care About Climate Change, Clean Air? Call Your Senators!
The Senate votes tomorrow on four pieces of legislation that all aim to block or delay Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) action to reduce the carbon dioxide pollution of the nation’s biggest polluters. These polluters have convinced their friends in Congress to author a wave of bills exempting them from strong air pollution limits—they are the…
Read MoreCoal Plant Heats Up Chicago Politics
When combined, the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power plants are the largest source of pollution in Chicago, and local residents have been fighting for years for stronger health controls from these plants. Recently, activists with the Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization (PERRO)made a huge step forward when they convinced a local politician to support stronger…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Making Money, Having Fun
World News with Diane Sawyer to cover the story of the residents of Bokoshe, OK, and their fight against cancer, asthma and toxic coal ash
Read MoreClimate Impacts on Freshwater in the Americas
When glaciers no longer provide drinking water to the communities that depend on them, what happens to the people?
Read MoreCoal Ash Conundrum—The Biggest Loser?
The verdict is in. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turned a blind eye to coal ash reuse during the Bush Administration, and, in fact, the agency went a considerable way toward promoting reuses that were dangerous to human health and the environment. After a nine-month investigation, the EPA’s Office of Inspector General concluded that the EPA failed…
Read MoreDeregulation of Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Prompts Lawsuit
Monsanto commonly offers unsustainable solutions to the agriculture industry such as genetically engineered seeds and increased herbicide use and then dubs those dubious solutions "sustainable agriculture."
Read MoreFriday Finds: Mutually Assured Madness
Nuclear power industry experiences public fallout As the nuclear crisis in Japan worsens, concerns about nuclear power’s safety are spreading, prompting news agencies to take a second look at the inherently risky technology. As the Christian Science Monitor recently reported, last year U.S. nuclear plants had at least 14 “near misses” that occurred with “alarming…
Read MoreEPA Administrator Visits California's Central Valley
For years citizens of California’s central valley have been asking for help and Wednesday, if only for a few hours, one of the most influential people in the country listened. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson travelled to a church in Fresno to hear the concerns of the people of the valley and what she heard was…
Read MoreValley Advocates Demand Environmental Justice
When Bush II’s Head of EPA came to California’s Central Valley, he tried to hold secret meetings with industry and was met with a protest from clean air advocates angered by EPA’s long history of ignoring the Valley’s severe public health and environmental justice problems in favor of big business interests. Yesterday, President Obama’s EPA…
Read MorePower Plant Ordered to Stop Polluting the Monongahela River
After 40 years without effective pollution controls, a scrubbing system was recently installed at the Hatfield’s Ferry power plant in Masontown, Penn., limiting the amount of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants the plant pumps into the air. But the plant’s failure to install a scrubbing system for its discharged wastewater means that the dangerous pollutants…
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