Steam rises above the Manhattan skyline from the Con Edison plant on a cold winter afternoon, as seen from the FDR Drive in New York City on Jan. 15, 2022. Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images When the New York… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Environment’
Infection of Wildlife Biologist Highlights Risks of Virus Hunting
The illness was mysterious. A 25-year-old graduate student had been hospitalized with a high fever, muscle and joint pain, a stiff neck, fatigue, sores in her throat, and a metallic taste in her mouth. She soon developed an angry rash…. Read More ›
Rep. Cori Bush Boosts Biden’s Efforts to Fight Climate Change With Executive Authority
President Joe Biden’s efforts to tackle the climate crisis through executive action got an assist this week, courtesy of Missouri Rep. Cori Bush and Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee. One hundred million dollars in new funding, announced Tuesday alongside other measures… Read More ›
Industry-Linked Sustainability Standard Allows Clothing Giants to Ramp Up Emissions
More than a decade ago, the clothing world’s ultimate would-be do-gooder, Patagonia, partnered with Walmart to clean up the fashion industry’s environmental image. The reason was obvious: The garment industry is the second largest polluter in the world. The cooperation… Read More ›
Russia-Ukraine War Is Another Reason to Break Free of Dirty Steel, but U.S. Companies Still Chase Profits Over Green Future
The Azovstal Steel and Iron Works facility operated by Metinvest Group in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Jan. 15, 2022. Photo: Christopher Occhicone/Bloomberg via Getty Images The war in Ukraine has threatened a vital component of the U.S. industrial base: steel production…. Read More ›
Chemours Claims Toxic PFAS Chemical GenX Protects the Climate
Chemours has offered a novel argument in defense of one of its toxic PFAS chemicals, known as GenX: that the compound, which causes cancer and other health effects in lab animals and was released by the company into the drinking… Read More ›
EPA Rejects Denka’s Request to Weaken Assessment of Chloroprene
The Environmental Protection Agency released a letter to Denka Performance Elastomer last week refusing the chemical company’s request to change its assessment of a chemical called chloroprene. Denka, which owns and operates a chloroprene-emitting plant in Louisiana’s St. John the Baptist Parish,… Read More ›
Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition
As part of its efforts to build and operate pipelines, the oil transport company Enbridge used a tracking system that identified Indigenous-led groups as key threats. Internal documents reviewed by The Intercept describe how Enbridge launched an initiative known as… Read More ›
Judge Rules Against Pipeline Company Trying to Keep “Counterinsurgency” Records Secret
Last week, a North Dakota court ruled against a bid by the oil company Energy Transfer to keep documents about its security contractor’s operations against anti-pipeline activism secret. The court thwarted the pipeline giant’s attempt to narrow the definition of… Read More ›
“Don’t Look Up” Is as Funny and Terrifying About Global Warming as “Dr. Strangelove” Was About Nuclear War
If you’re wondering whether we’ll do anything about global warming before it destroys civilization, think about this ominous fact: It occupies barely any space in popular culture. This contrasts with the gusher of movies and books in the 1960s, ’70s,… Read More ›