As the Trump administration ratchets up its rhetoric demanding billions for a wall, American communities along the Mexico border are in need of basic services, like reliable sewage treatment.
President Trump distanced the United States further from the global consensus on fighting climate change Saturday, becoming the only world leader at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires to not commit to implementing the 2015 Paris climate agreement.
For most of 2018, the City of Newark’s website promised its residents that “NEWARK’S WATER IS ABSOLUTELY SAFE TO DRINK,” while levels of lead in the City’s tap water skyrocketed.
Green banks are financial institutions that can leverage public funding to attract private capital for clean energy projects (including energy efficiency, renewable energy, and other distributed energy resources), as well as other “green” investments. They can help both states and…
Seismic surveys constitute not only the main precursor to offshore drilling, but a serious assault on the ocean in themselves. They repeatedly pound the water with industrial airguns, producing noise as loud as explosions, about every ten seconds, day and…
The findings from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5 and UNEP Emissions Gap report made clear that global emissions must be decreased starting immediately. Attempts to build new fossil-fuel fired power plants contradicts the…
The Trump administration thought that releasing a blockbuster climate assessment on Black Friday would keep people from talking about it. That’s not what happened.
Sanderson Farms, Inc.—the third-largest chicken producer in the nation—today announced it will stop using two medically important antibiotics unnecessarily in its chickens by March 1, 2019, instead reserving them only to treat sick animals or to control a disease in…
The fate of the Pebble Mine at the headwaters of the 40,000-square mile Bristol Bay watershed may be the most consequential land use decision in North America today, pitting an essentially eternal supply of food against an essentially eternal supply…
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