A new report from a watchdog group found that...
The Environmental Protection Agency...
$100 billion for something that used to be free.
Nearly 780 million people worldwide do not have access to a source of clean water (water that flows through a household connection, borehole, well, or protected spring). In the US, 99.2% of the country has access to clean tap water, but many Americans chose to drink bottled water instead due […]
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President Donald Trump's latest executive order...
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It's impossible to...
On Tuesday night, Reuters broke the news that...
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President Donald Trump signed a number of...
The Trump administration has told the...
President Donald Trump signed a number of...
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VIDEO: President-elect Trump has tapped a climate change sceptic to head the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency.
VIDEO: The Internet was quick to shame Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for jogging through the smoggy streets of Beijing without a mask. But the reaction highlights an increasingly dangerous pollution crisis in China, not just with the air, but with the water as well.
Volkswagen may be prepping a buyback of...
VIDEO: This man is wearing 500 plastic bags around town to support his daughter's environmental non-profit.
VIDEO: Volkswagen announced that 800,000 additional cars could be affected in this new scandal.
A seemingly divided Supreme Court weighed the...
On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency...
A compound specifically mentioned in a leaked PowerPoint.
Will execute Obama's sweeping climate change plan.
Apple has had a complicated relationship with environmentalists. The company prides itself on its greenness in many ways, having been a leader in eliminating lead, bromides, PVC, and excess packaging from its products and building renewable energy sources for its North Carolina data centre. But it has tangled frequently with environmental groups, […]
The Natural Resources defence Council released its annual report on water quality at U.S. beaches.
[credit provider=”Arthur Tress/U.S. National Archives”] Arthur Tress is one of the hundreds of freelance photographers hired by the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s to document mounting environmental problems in America. The following set of images shows the deterioration of the New York Harbor area in 1973.
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[email protected]/5372083083/”] Over the past several decades, U.S. industries have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid deep into the earth, using broad expanses of the nation’s geology as an invisible dumping ground.No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto […]
[credit provider=”Flcikr/arimoore” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/arimoore/4142049810/”] By Dan VerganoUSA TODAY
The U.S. Government Accountability Office is trying to put an end to one wasteful federal habit: The 10,000 computers the Environmental Protection Agency estimates the government discards each week.
[credit provider=”Presidio of Monterey: DLIFLC & USAG” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/presidioofmonterey/4098650619/”] DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso’s house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked […]
[credit provider=”Wikipedia”] DIMOCK, Pa. (AP) — Tugging on rubber gloves, a laboratory worker kneels before a gushing spigot behind Kim Grosso’s house and positions an empty bottle under the clear, cold stream. The process is repeated dozens of times as bottles are filled, marked and packed into coolers.After extensive testing, […]
[credit provider=”By Chuck “Caveman” Coker on flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3346906435/sizes/o/in/photostream/”] There’s a heated debate brewing on Capitol Hill over just how costly a new EPA rule to cut dirty toxins like mercury and lead from energy plant emissions would be for consumers at home. Before you take sides, let’s start with a bit of background:
[credit provider=”mrcTV” url=”http://www.mrctv.org/videos/plf-helps-idaho-couple-take-bully-court-sackett-v-epa”] WASHINGTON (AP) — Several conservative members of the Supreme Court criticised the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday for heavy-handed enforcement of rules affecting homeowners after the government told an Idaho couple they can’t challenge an order declaring their future home site a “protected wetlands.”Justice Antonin Scalia assailed […]
[credit provider=”Google Maps”] ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where a natural gas driller has been accused of tainting water wells with methane and possibly hazardous chemicals say the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is promising to deliver fresh water.Homeowners in Dimock Township have been without a […]
The EPA’s bombshell report about groundwater contamination from fracking acknowledges a few reasons why the site at Pavillion, WY is irregular. Expect the natural gas industry to make a big deal of these points:
[credit provider=”Flickr – Irargerich” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrargerich/3110364559/sizes/m/in/photostream/”] Water used to be free.In fact, it still is — at least in nations blessed with plentiful clean tap water like the U.S. — but that doesn’t stop the world from spending over $100 billion on bottled water a year.
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[email protected]/3858147546/”] The Environmental Protection Agency has to delay or soften new coal regulations or it would jeopardizing U.S. power supply, Morgan Stanley says in a note this morning:These rules were tougher than expected and affect Texas which had believed until a few months ago that it […]
[credit provider=”Courtesy of The White House”] Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign is out with a memo today highlighting polls showing Republicans as out of touch with Americans on issues from immigration to financial regulation.”The campaign to win the Republican nomination has become a campaign […]
The coal industry that sustained Central Appalachia since the 19th-century is declining faster than anyone expected.
Former Vice President Al Gore criticised President Barack Obama’s decision to withdraw a $90 billion clean air regulation last week in a post on his blog.
[credit provider=”Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/talkradionews/4012425080/sizes/m/in/photostream/”] Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered the sharpest critique yet of President Barack Obama’s jobs plan — two days before it is to be formally announced.Speaking on the Senate floor to open the fall legislative session after a five-week vacation, McConnell said he is growing confident that […]
President Barack Obama announced Friday that he was directing the EPA to withdraw a draft regulation that would tighten air quality standards for Ozone due to concerns about costs.
In a letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner today, President Barack Obama revealed that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a clean air rule that could cost up to $90 billion to implement.
The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled its first major effort at slashing government red tape, outlining hundreds of changes in the fine print of government regulations that potentially could save businesses and consumers billions of dollars over the coming decade.
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