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Spreading Their Wings

June 24, 2015 DispatchChicagoSusan Cosier

Butterflies bred in a Chicago lab are fluttering their way back to Illinois swamps.

EPA Agrees Monarch Butterflies are in Jeopardy, But Refuses to Use Authority to Limit Habitat-Killing Pesticide

June 24, 2015 Press Release

WASHINGTON (June 24, 2015) — Confronted with the urgent and growing crisis of the imperiled monarch butterfly, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today utterly failed to seize an opportunity to use its authority to limit the use of glyphosate…

City Exiles More of Chicago's Petcoke Piles

June 24, 2015 Press Release

CHICAGO (June 24, 2015) – The City of Chicago recently informed a company storing massive mounds of oil refining waste on Chicago’s Southeast Side that no more of the material can ever move through one of its sites. The decision…

India's heatwave a lesson for Sendai Framework

June 23, 2015 Expert BlogAnjali Jaiswal

Win-Win for the Historic Palisades Park: LG Redesigns Office Building to Preserve Iconic Views

June 23, 2015 Expert BlogMark Izeman

Broad Array of Public Interest Groups Call on Subway, the World’s Largest Fast-Food Chain: Help Save Antibiotics!

June 23, 2015 Press ReleaseCalifornia

SAN FRANCISCO (June 23, 2015) — A letter signed by nearly 60 public interest, medical, public health, environmental and animal welfare organizations was delivered to Subway Founder and CEO Fred DeLuca and Senior VP Suzanne Greco today, asking the restaurant…

Developing a National Inventory of Mercury Production and Use: The Time Has Come

June 23, 2015 Expert BlogUnited StatesDavid Lennett

Enlist Duo Active Ingredients Linked to Cancer

June 23, 2015 Expert BlogKristi Pullen Fedinick

New climate-health report in The Lancet: our opportunity moment is now

June 23, 2015 Expert BlogDr. Kim Knowlton

Remaking California's Transportation System for People and Their Environment (Audio)

June 23, 2015 Expert BlogAmanda Eaken

Saying Goodbye to Bobby Andrew, Defender of Bristol Bay

June 22, 2015 Expert BlogJoel Reynolds

Science/Fiction: Did EPA Determine Whether or Not Fracking has led to Widespread, Systematic Impacts to Drinking Water?

June 22, 2015 Expert BlogBriana Mordick

"Each creature has its own purpose" -- Pope Francis on the moral imperative to preserve biodiversity during the Sixth Extinction

June 22, 2015 Expert BlogAndrew Wetzler

Scrubbed but Not Clean

June 22, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesRachel Cernansky

By air or water, pollution from power plants is a problem no matter which exit it takes.

Take Two Levees and Call Me in the Morning

June 22, 2015 Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer

A prestigious medical journal warns of the dangers climate change poses to public health.