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Tr-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 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 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 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…
Read MoreTr-Ash Talk: Put Down that Glass!
A while back, we documented the threat of hexavalent chromium in drinking water and the fact that it leaches from coal ash disposal sites across the country. Sadly hexavalent chromium and coal ash share a headline again in this story out of Madison, Wisconsin. The article details the results of a study that found hexavalent…
Read MoreMonday Reads: The Midway Atoll Tsunami Edition
Several hours after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck northern Japan, towering waves raced west across the Pacific, engulfing the three tiny islands of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. A mere three days earlier, Midway Atoll had been heralding the latest wildlife celebrity to woo human audiences: Wisdom. Not only was she the…
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