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Spill Tracker

Latest NewsUnited StatesThe Editors
An explosion in North American fossil fuel extraction has led to a dangerous rise in pipeline spills and oil train derailments.

Better Living Through Chemistry?

Latest NewsUnited StatesSusan Cosier
Chemical regulation needs a makeover, but Congress’ efforts at reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act are still a work in progress.

Good-bye Polystyrene Tray. Hello Compostable Plate.

Press ReleaseNew York
NEW YORK (May 20, 2015) – The Urban School Food Alliance (Alliance), a coalition of the largest school districts in the United States that includes New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami-Dade, Dallas and Orlando, announced that it will start…

Do We Exhale Carbon?

Latest NewsUnited StatesBrian Palmer
Your bodily emissions have at most a negligible impact on climate change, and you may even be a modest carbon-sequestration device.

Re-Imagining Watts 50 Years After the Riots

Press ReleaseCalifornia
LOS ANGELES (May 19, 2015) — Fifty years after the Watts Uprising, a coalition of community groups today launched Watts Re:Imagined – a sustainable redevelopment vision for the South Los Angeles neighborhood. The plan draws on the region’s rich historical…

Dirty Dancing in the Big Empty

PerspectivesWest, United StatesRocky Kistner
A new documentary spotlights the sad plight of the greater sage grouse: They’re running out of dance floor.

Ruptured Pipeline Spills Oil Along Santa Barbara’s Coast

Press ReleaseCalifornia
LOS ANGELES (May 19, 2015) — A pipeline burst along Santa Barbara’s coast today, spilling an estimated 21,000 gallons of toxic crude oil in Santa Barbara’s waters and creating a four-mile oil slick.

Imagine fixing our crumbling infrastructure in ways that last. It can be done.

Expert BlogDoug Sims
We usually don't talk as a nation about infrastructure. It's best when it's invisible. Literally, it is the structure-beneath-the-structure that supports our lives. Your job supports your family, but infrastructure -- power, water, transportation as well as social infrastructure like…