The Government Services Administration will set a new standard for contractors to use low embodied carbon concrete, and new standards for environmentally preferable asphalt—part of a federal Buy Clean policy to reduce industrial emissions via public procurement.
A decade-long court order to protect residents of Dickson, Tenn. from the toxin trichloroethylene (TCE) wound down last week. The court has ordered that remaining settlement money be used by the county for ongoing water monitoring and related purposes.
Representative Sirota, Senator Fields, and Senator Winter have introduced a bill that would get the lead out of drinking water in childcare centers and public schools by adding filters to drinking water taps.
Canada is taking a page out of industry’s playbook by characterizing all of its voluntary certifications as being strong indicators of sustainable forestry.
Canada has one of the world’s highest rates of logging primary forests, which are irreplaceable ancient forests that have never been industrially disturbed.
Even without any new offshore lease sales, there is enough oil and gas in existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico that production at current levels could continue for more than a decade.
The State’s recent announcement of a proposed voluntary agreement for the Bay-Delta watershed is the result of an illegitimate, exclusionary backroom negotiation that fails to protect the health of the estuary, its native fish and wildlife, and the jobs and…
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release its Working Group III report on climate change mitigation today, finding that despite the clean energy revolution underway globally, nations are falling far short of reducing climate pollution quickly enough to…
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued new fuel economy standards today that will save drivers money at the pump while cutting our reliance on oil.
This National Poetry Month, four writers champion the legendary local activist who launched a movement while they continue to grapple with the work left to be done.