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Trump Administration Approves Harmful Seismic Blasting in Atlantic

Trump Administration Approves Harmful Seismic Blasting in Atlantic

Despite vehement opposition from communities, businesses and lawmakers along the Atlantic coast, the National Marine Fisheries Service on Friday is expected to issue five permits, or Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHA), that allow deafening seismic surveys to search for offshore oil and natural gas in the Atlantic Ocean. The Trump administration’s move was first reported by […]

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    EPA Wants Coal Plants to Emit More Toxic Mercury

    EPA Wants Coal Plants to Emit More Toxic Mercury

    The Trump administration is proposing to significantly weaken a rule that limits the amount of mercury and other toxic emissions from coal plants, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist and acting administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has drafted a plan that would undermine the 2011 […]

    How Did Farmer Brown Bring His Dying Land Back From the Brink?

    How Did Farmer Brown Bring His Dying Land Back From the Brink?

    By Jeff Turrentine Sometimes enlightenment arrives as a flash of epiphany: a gravity-obeying apple that falls from a tree, for instance, or a blinding light that freezes you in your tracks on the road to Damascus. Other times, though, it’s more of a process. That’s how Gabe Brown came to regenerative agriculture. About 20 years […]

    New Report Highlights Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products

    New Report Highlights Toxic Chemicals in Consumer Products

    By Anna Reade A new report by the Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP) details findings from product testing they performed on beauty, personal care and cleaning products, with an emphasis on products often marketed to vulnerable populations, such as children and women of color. The report focuses on the identification of chemicals used for fragrance […]

    Trump Administration Asks Court to Re-Hear Case That Banned Chlorpyrifos

    Trump Administration Asks Court to Re-Hear Case That Banned Chlorpyrifos

    The Trump administration is appealing a federal court ruling that ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide tied to brain damage and other health problems in children. In August, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the EPA must ban the pesticide within 60 days based on strong […]

    U.S. Air Pollution Is ‘Completely Outrageous’

    U.S. Air Pollution Is ‘Completely Outrageous’

    By Juanita Constible How do you think the U.S. stacks up against other countries for protecting its citizens from the health threats of air pollution? That’s the question Christiana Figueres, one of the world’s leading climate warriors, posed at last week’s Global Climate and Health Forum, an official side event of the Global Climate Action […]

    Ethereal Fog Sculptures Are Rolling Through Boston’s Parks

    Ethereal Fog Sculptures Are Rolling Through Boston’s Parks

    By Clara Chaisson What do you call a sculpture that weighs nearly nothing, never looks the same twice, and vanishes into thin air? Artist Fujiko Nakaya has built a storied five-decade career out of the answer to this seeming riddle: a fog sculpture. The Japanese artist has presented her atmospheric works more than 80 times […]