Today, California’s Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) added to the growing body of science raising the alarm about the dangers of the pesticide chlorpyrifos and took one step closer to getting it out of the state’s fields and orchards.
Southeast Side residents and advocates held a press conference today in response to General Iron’s announced plans to move its Lincoln Park metal shredder, cited last week by the EPA for air pollution violations, to a new facility on Chicago’s Southeast Side. Residents at…
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…
