The scenes of devastation caused by this week’s storms in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands are harrowing. More than 120 people are confirmed dead, and over 1,000 are still missing. Across parts of
The EPA, in prioritizing industry over its mandate to protect the environment, has infringed on Pennsylvania’s right to pure water and our health and safety.
It's an established fact that rising sea levels will affect the supply of fresh groundwater along the South Carolina coast — it already has, especially in some shallower, private wells east of U.S. Highway 17.
Florida's springs are falling to ruin partly because the state is afraid of angering the main polluters: Agriculture. Lawmakers need to muster some courage and take decisive action to reduce the amount of pollution going into springs.
Will electric vehicles be able to handle the steep and tough road Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledges stretches ahead of us following the release of the Climate Change Commission's final report?
One of the biggest challenges in addressing climate change is that it's a very slow-moving crisis. We need to take action now in order to avert problems many years, even decades, into the future.
Legislation in Springfield would give Chicago 50 years to complete its lead service line removal program. Given the dangers of lead in drinking water even in trace amounts, that’s an untenable timeline.
Two court cases last week, one certainly historic and the other less clear-cut, both signal that in the push towards renewables and away from fossil fuels, change is afoot.
Local, state and federal governments must continue to take every possible action to mitigate the environmental disaster created by the plant's use of pesticide-treated seed corn to make alcohol.
If those in Washington D.C. who'd differ about the color of the sky are looking for issues to build consensus around, we'd suggest looking at Biden's $16 billion plan to plug "orphaned" oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines.
As the climate crisis worsens, more abrupt and painful measures to decrease emissions fast will become necessary, yet increasingly inadequate. Pennsylvania has a choice: wait for the decline or manage it, benefiting workers and the environment.
