Environmental Protection Agency Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson today released an action plan to reduce childhood lead exposure.
The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board today delayed, for the second time, its decision on an air pollution permit that Dominion Energy needs to build a gas compressor station in Union Hill for its proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline, raising further…
The Natural Resources Defense Council today joined with other organizations in formally asking new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Commissioner Bernard McNamee to recuse himself from two pending proceedings related to the Department of Energy’s proposal to bail out coal and…
For more than three decades, Jim Rogers was a dominant force for good in national and global energy circles. On the website highlighting his book Lighting the World, published after he retired from Duke Energy in 2013, Jim wrote: “I’d…
The newly-released 4th National Climate Assessment describes a near-term time bomb going off well within the lifespan of most Americans alive today. It forecasts food shortages, a rise in premature deaths, an increase in (un)natural disasters, the spread of disease…
Caribou and reindeer are the same iconic species. But Canadian policies are allowing rampant logging of the boreal forest: a critical habitat for boreal caribou. If boreal caribou are to be saved, their forests will need to be protected.
Clean energy advocates today called upon new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) member Bernard McNamee to recuse himself from cases relating to federal efforts to bail out the coal and nuclear industries. The filing with FERC is a necessary legal…
Sales of antibiotics important to human medicine for use in livestock dropped 28 percent from 2009 to 2017, according to annual numbers released today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Despite this, use of medically important antibiotics in U.S…
A bipartisan group of governors and the mayor of Washington, D.C. announced groundbreaking plans today to clean up transportation systems in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, reducing harmful climate pollution from vehicles and creating more equitable, livable and cleaner communities.
