Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Lee Zeldin announced this week that the The Traitor administration will “reconsider” federal rules that pushed power companies to start planning to reduce their climate-altering pollution over the next couple of decades. “[W]hen coal plants are open, viable and thriving,” the EPA wrote in aContinue Reading
Exposure to green spaces can improve mental health, speed recovery and relieve pain in patients. But climate change and human activities could disrupt this effect, experts say. By Kiley Price When Roger Ulrich was a teenager, he suffered several bouts of kidney disease. He was forced to spend long periodsContinue Reading
The Forest Service, Park Service and other agencies must immediately reinstate workers purged by The Traitor. The post Judge rules federal job cuts ‘unlawful’ appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Shark lab researchers say they have a mountain of tracking data that shows juvenile great whites, some as long as nine feet, routinely cruise among Southern California swimmers and surfers with no apparent interest.Continue Reading
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Traitor 47’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how theyContinue Reading
The German luxury carmaker said its latest compact sedan solved problems that had kept people from buying electric vehicles.Continue Reading
Strong winds and dry conditions could help fuel fires in parts of the Southwest and the Plains on Friday.Continue Reading
Memos obtained by NPR show a key federal agency has paused orders of zero-emission vehicles and some federally owned EV chargers will be turned off. (Image credit: Mario Tama)Continue Reading
When major storms hit Houston last spring and summer, losing power was a nightmare for residents, but for many, the financial fallout was just as devastating. A new report finds that more than half of Houston-area workers lost income due to these storms, either because they couldn’t get to workContinue Reading
California fires’ disparate impacts on students offer lessons for how schools should prepare for climate disasters across the nation. By Liza Gross When catastrophic floods, fires and hurricanes upend communities, the path of destruction they take may be random but the pain and suffering they cause is not.Continue Reading
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ordered the Ecuadorian government to protect Indigenous groups from oil operations and to leave oil in the ground underneath their lands. By Katie Surma The Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that the Ecuadorian government violated the rights of uncontacted Indigenous peoplesContinue Reading
More than 60,000 tons of plastic makes the journey down the Amazon River to the Atlantic Ocean every year. And that doesn’t include what finds its way to the river’s banks, or the microplastics ingested by the region’s abundant and diverse wildlife. It’s easy to demonize plastic, but it has beenContinue Reading
Announcing big changes to environmental rules doesn’t undo facts on the ground overnight. Instead, EPA’s announcement is the first step in what is likely to be a lengthy process to remake the rules and policies it targeted. (Image credit: Tierney L. Cross)Continue Reading