Oil refinery on Puget Sound. Credit: Walter Siegmund
A report released in July by the World Resources Institute and the Environmental Law Institute on the “social cost of carbon” identifies weaknesses in current cost-benefit analyses that dramatically underestimate the harm inflicted by climate...
Aug
07
White House Fuel Standards Infographic. Click to enlarge.
Yesterday, President Obama announced an agreement with a broad coalition of automakers and other stakeholders to dramatically increase fuel economy and reduce greenhouse gas pollution for all 2017-2025 new cars and trucks sold in the United...
Jul
30
Using data from the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory, the Natural Resources Defense Council has compiled a list of states with the most toxic air pollution from coal- and oil-fired power plants. Release of the analysis, entitled “Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States”...
Jul
22
Ken Lund/Creative Commons
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced yesterday a new Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to improve air quality for 240 million Americans by significantly reducing harmful smokestack emissions produced outside of their own state borders.
Specifically...
Jul
08
An analysis of several studies reveals that the Latino community faces a disproportionate risk from toxic mercury pollution due to a combination of cultural, economic and linguistic factors.
The analysis, based largely on previously unreleased data from the polling firm Bendixen &...
Jul
05
by Nicholas Kusnetz, ProPublica
June 20, 2011, 4:36 p.m.
In this April 23, 2010 photo, a Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site is seen near Burlington, Pa. (AP Photo/Ralph Wilson)
Over the past year, five states have begun requiring energy companies to disclose some of the chemicals they pump...
Jun
21
First I will mention that this is coming after a lifelong interest in all things ocean, a BS and 3 years of Graduate School in Marine Biology, followed by making films in the ocean for over 35 years. I know little of the chemistry of what the dispersant (primarily Corexit 9500) used in the Gulf...
May
23
by Abrahm Lustgarten – ProPublica, May 9, 2011
Hydraulic Fracturing - Photo EPA
For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire.
The peer-reviewed...
May
10
