Sanitary wipes are causing a crisis in sewer processing plants in New York City and urban areas across the country, according to reports from the New York Times, Washington Post and Bloomberg News. Sanitary wipes are causing a crisis in sewer processing plants. Photo credit: Shutterstock The wipes, which consumers—especially parents of babies and young children—have […]
“Did Satan’s skunk get diarrhea?,” Jon Stewart said last week in reference to what many people might think after driving by ExxonMobil’s oil refineries and petrochemical plants in the northeast part of New Jersey. According to Workers World, “The oil giant and its predecessor companies have been polluting New Jersey’s wetlands for over a century. It was held […]
A reinvigorated “People’s Foot” movement to end mountaintop removal is ramping up its efforts next week, as the last vestiges of outside support begin to abandon the nation’s most egregious strip mining operations in central Appalachia. “Mountaintop removal is on the ropes,” said Bob Kincaid, with the Appalachian Community Health Emergency campaign and board president […]
A new report this week from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory finds that the rate of climate change, which has increased in recent decades, will increase even more in the 2020s. And Alaska, along with the rest of the Arctic, has been warming even faster with six degrees of winter warming as the loss of snow and […]
From fabric, to food, to feed, cotton has thousands of uses. Its ubiquitous presence, however, is entrenched with a long, brutal history that tremendously affects our world today. The Organic Consumers Association said that cotton is the most toxic crop in the world, using more than 25 percent of all the insecticides in the world and […]
Wine just got healthier. The African vintner Audacia has invented an all-natural way to preserve red wine using rooibos wood taken from the eponymous tea-producing plant that is native to Africa. MERLOT 2013 has “No Sulphites or Preservatives Added.” Made by the African vintner Audacia, which invented an all-natural way to preserve red wine using […]
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