Four years ago this month, a major breach occurred in an earthen dam built to contain millions of tons of mining waste at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley copper and gold mine in British Columbia. It remains the worst environmental mining…
EPA head Andrew Wheeler proposed last week a long-rumored rule replacing—and thoroughly gutting—the Clean Power Plan, the Obama EPA’s landmark climate initiative that set the first-ever limits on dangerous carbon pollution from power plants. This worse-than-nothing proposal props up coal-fired…
NRDC and a group of public school educators are asking a federal court to require immediate action, as lead levels in Newark’s drinking water remain unsafe.
New modeling finds that a 50 percent renewable energy standard in Nevada would drive new investments in local solar power and storage, lowering harmful pollution across the state, and reducing Nevada’s dependence on out-of-state fossil fuels and power.
A group of Newark public school educators and a national environmental group have asked a federal court to issue an emergency order to provide safe drinking water to Newark residents most at risk of exposure and most vulnerable to health…
Nearly 40,000 giraffe parts and products—thought to represent nearly 4,000 giraffes—have been imported into the U.S. over the last decade, making the U.S. a significant market for giraffe parts.
The nation relies on the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to give people information about flood risks, provide post-flood financial assistance, and help people become safer from flooding. But the NFIP isn’t up to new reality of storms like Harvey…
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