Southwest Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood is one of the city’s most polluted neighborhoods and has also been ravaged by the novel coronavirus, Grist reports, yet another stark instance in which the pandemic has illuminated and exacerbated existing environmental injustices. The immigrant-rich neighborhood has been pummeled by COVID-19. At one point last November, one in nine […]
Indian startup Carbon Craft Design (CCD) launched with the goal of making construction more sustainable and tackling India’s major air pollution problem. It does so by extracting black carbon from polluted air and upcycling it into strong and stylish carbon tiles. Black carbon is a substance in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution that absorbs […]
Former coal lobbyist and current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Andrew Wheeler is expected to announce on Tuesday a rule tobacco consultants devised as an “explicit procedural hurdle” to protecting public health. The rule — sometimes called the ‘Secret Science’ rule — will require EPA to give less credence to scientific studies that take […]
By Tara Lohan This holiday season just about everything was different. Vacations were postponed. Parties and family get-togethers were canceled or moved online as folks hunkered down at the request of public-health officials. But one thing continued as usual: President Trump’s attacks on the environment. In the weeks following the Nov. 3 election, Trump’s team […]
By Kenneth McLeod To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes like heating homes and powering cars, and then generate the increased electrical power needs using low- or zero-carbon sources like wind, solar and hydropower. More than 30 cities in […]
The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts will mandate climate change warning labels on fuel pumps, The Guardian reported. The yellow stickers warn drivers that burning gasoline, diesel and ethanol has “major consequences on human health and the environment including contributing to climate change,” making Cambridge the first U.S. city to do so, according to The Guardian. […]
By Brett B. Palm The year 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, including its record-breaking wildfires that turned San Francisco’s skies an apocalyptic shade of red and blanketed large parts of the West in smoke for weeks on end. California experienced five of its six largest fires on record in 2020, including the first […]
Following a multi-year campaign by a coalition of advocates, the governors of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island, and the mayor of Washington, DC officially initiated the Transportation and Climate Initiative, a regional pact to cut transportation pollution. Leaders of the signatory jurisdictions said Monday they expect more states to join in the future. The participating […]
From reducing stress levels to improving your focus, houseplants have many benefits. But did you know that some species of air-filtering plants can even lowe your chances of getting liver damage, kidney disease, and cancer? Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are used to make most home products—furniture, paint, carpets, and even the construction materials used […]
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