By Brian Bienkowski Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants. That’s the finding of a new report by the International Joint Commission (IJC), a consortium of officials from the U.S. and Canada who study the Great Lakes. The impact of most of these “chemicals of […]
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock For the first time, a wind energy company has faced prosecution for the death of birds. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Duke Energy announced a $1 million settlement Friday related to the deaths of more than 160 protected birds in Wyoming. The charges stem from the discovery of 14 golden eagles […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), under a court agreement signed Thursday, will end decades of delay and decide how to protect consumers from triclosan, a suspected endocrine disruptor linked to reproductive and developmental harm in laboratory studies. The FDA first proposed in 1978 to remove triclosan from certain consumer products. But because it […]
There’s so many reasons to buy organic. Organic products taste great, reduce health risks and are higher quality because they meet stringent standards. Organic farmers respect water resources, build healthy soil and work in harmony with nature. Can choosing just one organic product out of every 10 items you buy make a difference? The Organic Center […]
On Thursday, Environmental Defence hosted Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and former U.S. Vice-President and Chairman of the Climate Reality Project, Al Gore, at an event to announce the elimination of coal-fired electricity in Ontario. The largest coal plant in North America—Nanticoke Generating Station on the north shore of Lake Erie—will stop burning coal this year. […]
As tar sands extraction continues and proposals for expanded pipelines from Canada into the U.S. form a backdrop, the Great Lakes themselves could become the next frontier for moving crude oil to a vast Midwest refinery network. Tar sands crude refiners in the U.S. Midwest The region faces a critical choice about whether the Great […]
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