The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited General Iron today for excessive air pollution, failing to install adequate pollution controls, and for not obtaining the correct air permit today. Since 2016, the EPA has conducted several inspections at the facility…
St. Louis adopted the 2018 IECC, or International Energy Conservation Code, a model code that creates a floor for energy performance in new buildings. Because the IECC update addresses a wide range of energy uses in both commercial and residential…
When thinking about the global transition to electric vehicles, it's helpful to compare policies guiding the world's two largest car markets: the United States and China.
Responding to a lawsuit filed by conservation groups, the U.S. Court of International Trade today ordered the Trump administration to ban seafood imports from Mexico caught with gillnets that kill the critically endangered vaquita porpoise. As few as 15 vaquita…
As India seeks to integrate a growing share of renewables in its electricity grid, curtailment, defined as a “reduction in the output of a power generator from what it could otherwise produce given available resources (e.g., wind or sunlight), typically…
The true cost of the paper towel roll in your kitchen and the box of tissues in your living room is far more than you might think. Many of the items we use on a daily basis—and throw away after…
ReportCanadaJennifer Skene, Josh Axelrod, Anthony Swift, Courtenay Lewis, Shelley Vinyard
Runaway logging in the globally-important forest violates the rights of Indigenous Peoples, devastates wildlife, and jeopardizes drinking water sources. It also puts the entire world at risk by releasing more than 26 million metric tons of carbon dioxide into the…
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