By Miles Johnson Why does a river organization like Columbia Riverkeeper dedicate so much energy to fighting fossil fuel projects? First, fossil fuels threaten clean water. Think oil spills, pipelines that degrade salmon streams, coal dust in the river, and aerial deposition of mercury from coal-burning power plants. But we have additional motivation to fight […]
The amount of electronic waste around the world grew to a record 45 million tons in 2016, according to a United Nations-backed study released on Wednesday. To put that in perspective, the weight of last year’s e-waste was equivalent to about 4,500 Eiffel Towers, according to the study by the UN university, the International Telecommunication […]
By Elena Craft Michael Honeycutt—the man set to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA‘s) prestigious Science Advisory Board—has spent most of his career as a credentialed counterpoint against almost anything the EPA has proposed to protect human health. Fortunately, his lone voice for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality rarely carried beyond the Lone […]
By Rita Schoeny . . . And neither can you. Since January, we have seen a continual assault on our environmental protections. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put a political operative with no scientific experience in charge of vetting EPA grants, and the agency is reconsidering an Obama-era regulation on coal ash. The […]
By Gary Bencheghib and Sam Bencheghib On August 14, we set out to kayak down the world’s most polluted river, the Citarum River located in Indonesia, to document and raise awareness about the highly toxic chemicals in its waters and the masses of plastics floating on its surface. We paddled a total of 68km in […]
The next time you go out for seafood, you might want to ask where the tuna was caught. According to new research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, the levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the muscle tissue of yellowfin tuna caught in the more industrialized areas […]
By Melanie Benesh According to a New York Times story published Wednesday, contaminants such as mercury, lead and bacteria, and other banned ingredients, are showing up in an alarming number of imported personal care products. This follows recent news that asbestos was found in tests of imported makeup marketed to tweens. The Times story is […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have just issued advice to pregnant women about eating fish. Fatty fish have long-chain omega-3 fatty acids which are good for health. Why You Need Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Your Diet – EcoWatch https://t.co/3VYd0amodm @livestrong @nytimeswell — EcoWatch (@EcoWatch) July 13, […]
By Ken Kimmell One well-reported thing about Scott Pruitt, President-elect Trump‘s nominee for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, is his penchant for filing lawsuits to block the EPA from enforcing clean air, clean water and climate regulations, rather than suing polluters in his own state of Oklahoma. This alone ought to provide ample […]
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