Environment

Trump Set to Attack Rules that Ensure Safe Tap Water

The $25 billion to spent on the U.S.-Mexico border wall could be used to modernize U.S.'s entire water infrastructure, says Food and Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter.

March 1, 2017
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Can EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Surprise Everybody?

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The Feb. 22 release of thousands of pages of emails from Scott Pruitt, approved by the Senate on Feb. 17 to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), only confirms what…

February 28, 2017
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Shell's 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’

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Critics say public information film shows Shell ‘understood the threat was dire, potentially existential for civilisation, more than a quarter of a century ago’

February 28, 2017
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Biologists Warn Half of All Species to Face Extinction by 2100, as GOP Pushes to Destroy Protections

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Today, 20 percent of all species are at risk of being wiped out, scientists at a Vatican conference on biodiversity warn, and that number may rise to nearly 50 percent…

February 27, 2017
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Sustainability

Evidence Emerges of Tropical Parasites in Rural America

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The Trump administration's attitude towards the EPA doesn't bode well for the fight to eliminate third world conditions right here in the United States, says Catherine Flowers of the Alabama…

February 24, 2017
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For $500 Billion, Scientists Think They Can “Refreeze” the Arctic

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Scientists have proposed a $500 billion plan to use 10 million wind-powered pumps to bring water from beneath the ice to the surface in an effort to thicken the Arctic…

February 24, 2017
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Global Warming