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President Trump is revoking California’s authority to set its own vehicle emissions standards, setting the stage for a Supreme Court battle.
The Endangered Species Act is getting an overhaul by the Trump White House that will affect hundreds of species now considered “threatened.”
Big soda companies, pressured to reduce plastic use, back away from lobbying firm tied to group opposing bag bans.
While 40 percent of the nation’s food supply winds up in landfills, a federal effort to curb waste is slow-moving, a new GAO report finds.
Food sick: The U.S. has seen a significant increase in the number of people contracting certain foodborne illnesses, with more multi-state outbreaks in 2018 than at any point in the previous decade, reports Laura Riley of The Washington Post. Better, quicker diagnosis is one factor, but public health experts told Riley that holes in food…
Review of numerous studies shows there is strong evidence–despite an industry narrative to the contrary–that fracking exposure is associated with an increased risk of certain health problems, including preterm birth and high-risk pregnancy, asthma flare-ups
Faulty lines, fires sparked: Pacific Gas & Electric Co. acknowledged that its equipment likely started what became the most destructive fire in California’s history, burning nearly 14,000 homes last November and killing 85 people, the Los Angeles Times reports. The company has filed for bankruptcy protection and faces dozens of lawsuits from people who lost property…
Environmental divide : In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment of the chemical ethylene oxide, marking it as a cancer-causing agent and dramatically lowering the acceptable threshold for healthy air. What happened after that, as explained by Sharon Lerner in The Intercept, illustrates the racialized nature of environmental regulation in the U.S. In affluent,…
‘Our generation’s Agent Orange’: When New York Times reporter Jennifer Steinhauer started covering the veterans affairs beat late last year, this was one of the first questions that popped up for her: “How was it that I had never heard of burn pits?” I had the same question last year as I sat on a…
A rising tide of garbage on land and in the seas, and the related health hazards, help make a case for a global ban on single-use plastics.
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