air pollution

Researchers now say there is “no safe level” of air pollution exposure after a large-scale study found a correlation between exposure to fine particle matter, known as PM2.5, and cardiac arrests, according to the The Sydney Morning Herald. The researchers found that exposure to PM2.5 that even fell below global standards was hazardous, suggesting that […]

New York City isn’t known for having the cleanest air, but researchers traced recent air pollution spikes there to two surprising sources — fires hundreds of miles away in Canada and the southeastern U.S. According to a study published this week in the European Geosciences Union’s journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, researchers at Yale University […]

By Jeff Turrentine To celebrate the 50th birthday of one of America’s most important environmental laws, President Trump has decided to make a mockery out of it. On the first day of January 1970, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). In doing so, he formally acknowledged that the […]

Environmental groups are suing to stop the Trump administration from fracking in California. The suit, filed in Los Angeles Tuesday, comes in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to open more than a million acres of public lands to oil and gas leasing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The decision was finalized […]

By Andy Rowell After weeks of inaction and ineptitude as his country burns, as a billion animals die, with entire species potentially wiped out, and with dozens of people dead and communities and lives ripped apart, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has finally slumbered into action. Over the weekend, Morrison tweeted, “We’re putting more Defense […]

One of the more positive environmental developments in the U.S. in recent years has been the shutdown of deadly, high-emitting coal-fired plants. But now, a study has found that new oil and gas infrastructure could counteract much of that progress. The report, released by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) Wednesday, found that the oil and […]

The Trump administration will continue its assault on the environment when it unveils new regulations on Wednesday that will limit the types of projects that require environmental review and it will no longer require federal agencies to consider impacts on the climate crisis in new infrastructure projects, as Reuters reported. The changes to the 50-year-old […]

Official figures from the Chinese government show that Beijing’s ongoing seven-year “war on pollution” has netted significantly improved air quality in the capital city, as the South China Morning Post reported. Data released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment showed that concentrations of fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 fell 14.3 percent […]