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Mar 31, 2018

Automakers sought looser rules but may get more than they bargained for

The Trump administration's likely rollback of emissions and fuel economy rules for cars could trigger a major legal showdown with California.

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Gaetz drafting ‘Green Real Deal’ climate resolution

The resolution acknowledges climate change as a threat to national security, but it does not set any targets for future carbon cuts.

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RePower South recycling facility will open soon. But some environmentalists are worried.

Berkeley County has promised to provide RePower South at least 120,000 tons of their waste every year, and an estimated 72,000 tons would be diverted from the landfill. But some

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Weed killer residues found in 98 percent of Canadian honey samples

As U.S. regulators continue to dance around the issue of testing foods for residues of glyphosate weed killers, government scientists in Canada have found the pesticide in 197 of 200 samples of honey they examined.

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Spinach, strawberries and kale top annual report on the most pesticide-tainted produce

If you're going to buy organic, strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines and apples might be a good place to start.

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Can Finland’s forests withstand Chinese-driven growth?

There are currently five major forestry-related projects underway in Finland driven, at least in part, by Chinese investment.

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Toxics

From service to sick: The effects of veterans' exposure to burn pits

Thousands of veterans say toxic smoke from trash fires at their military bases made them sick.

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Clean drinking water a bigger global threat than climate change, EPA's Wheeler says

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler says that unsafe drinking water -- not climate change -- poses the greatest and most immediate global threat to the environment.

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Toxics

The Three Mile Island accident and the enduring questions of ties to cancer and deaths

Repeated studies find no conclusive link between the TMI accident and public health. But those conclusions don’t satisfy those who live around the plant and know people who became sick and died at young ages.

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Oil lobby groups are using EPA’s ‘secret science’ proposal to argue against clean water rules

Fossil fuel trade groups don't want the EPA to update a 1970s-era list of polluting petroleum chemicals.

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US military knew flood risks at Offutt Air Force Base, but didn’t act in time

Extreme weather is raising the stakes at military bases across the nation, but preparations for the changing climate have often been slow.

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Why Louisianans blame government, not corporations, for pollution problems

UC Berkeley sociologist Arlie Hochschild traveled to Louisiana, the second-poorest state, to explore why its neediest populations simultaneously rely on federal aid and reject the concept of “big government."

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Since Exxon Valdez spill, other disasters have contaminated the ocean

Disasters like oil spills pollute the ocean and kill marine life. Since 1967, there have been more than 9,500 tanker oil spills around the globe.

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A fracking-driven industrial boom renews pollution concerns in Pittsburgh

Once known as the Steel City, Pittsburgh is shedding its polluted past and embracing a rebirth built on health care, education, and technology. But the region’s surging fracking industry is attracting a $6 billion ethane plant and other petrochemical facilities, raising new pollution fears.

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From our Newsroom

Pittsburgh students go on strike to join international day of climate action

Automakers sought looser rules but may get more than they bargained for

Gaetz drafting ‘Green Real Deal’ climate resolution

RePower South recycling facility will open soon. But some environmentalists are worried.

Weed killer residues found in 98 percent of Canadian honey samples

Spinach, strawberries and kale top annual report on the most pesticide-tainted produce

Can Finland’s forests withstand Chinese-driven growth?

Three decades after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Alaska’s coast faces an even bigger threat

From service to sick: The effects of veterans' exposure to burn pits

Clean drinking water a bigger global threat than climate change, EPA's Wheeler says

The Three Mile Island accident and the enduring questions of ties to cancer and deaths

Oil lobby groups are using EPA’s ‘secret science’ proposal to argue against clean water rules

US military knew flood risks at Offutt Air Force Base, but didn’t act in time

Why Louisianans blame government, not corporations, for pollution problems

Since Exxon Valdez spill, other disasters have contaminated the ocean

A fracking-driven industrial boom renews pollution concerns in Pittsburgh

What’s the world’s most widely used herbicide doing to tiny critters?

Glyphosate-based herbicides are not supposed to harm wildlife. But lab studies keep finding otherwise.

Peter Dykstra: The only thing we have to fear ...

Well, we have a lot of things to fear. But on climate, it's gullibility, spread far and wide.

Pittsburgh students go on strike to join international day of climate action

"Seeing that our elected officials aren't taking action ... is what brought me here today."

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to a lot of air pollution from white consumption: Study

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 56 percent and 63 percent, respectively, more air pollution than what their consumption causes.

Pete Myers and the 'Smog of the Sea'

EHN.org and DailyClimate.org founder speaks in Hawaii on plastic pollution and ocean health during a free showing of Jack Johnson's 'Smog of the Sea.'

Automakers sought looser rules but may get more than they bargained for

Glyphosate-based herbicides are not supposed to harm wildlife. But lab studies keep finding otherwise.

Well, we have a lot of things to fear. But on climate, it's gullibility, spread far and wide.

"Seeing that our elected officials aren't taking action ... is what brought me here today."

Black and Hispanic Americans are exposed to 56 percent and 63 percent, respectively, more air pollution than what their consumption causes.

EHN.org and DailyClimate.org founder speaks in Hawaii on plastic pollution and ocean health during a free showing of Jack Johnson's 'Smog of the Sea.'

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