Here is a list that you don’t want to read…but you have to. The Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass has updated their list of the Top 100 corporate polluters in the U.S. for 2009, which “identifies the top U.S. air polluters among the world’s largest corporations. The index relies on the U.S. Environmental [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Are plans to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon, as proposed by the Bush administration in 2008, still underway? The Obama administration has been quick to overturn several anti-environmental moves ushered in during the 11th hour of George W. Bush’s presidency, but halting uranium exploration and mining near the Grand Canyon has not [...]
Great stuff. A reminder that clean coal does not exist.
From the Reality Coalition, who are debunking the myth of “clean coal”. The video is pretty funny, and sadly true. Coal companies are spending huge sums of money marketing coal as “clean” rather than actually making it so. But the truth is in America, burning coal for electricity emits more global warming pollution than all [...]
What are these “ocean deserts” I’ve been hearing about? Also, didn’t I read that there was a huge mass of plastic bottles floating around somewhere on the ocean surface? So-called “ocean deserts” are oxygen-starved (or “hypoxic”) areas of the ocean. They can occur naturally, or be caused by an excess of nitrogen from agricultural fertilizers, [...]
This is why we need to ban plastic bags as soon as possible and make it mandatory that people bring their own reusable bags to the store. San Francisco did it. A city in Maryland did it. The entire Whole Foods chain did it. The western Indian state of Maharashtra did it. In fact, Iceland [...]
Lovely, just lovely. Just when you think it is safe to go back in the water, on come the heart problems, the cleft palate or the major brain defects! From the Telegraph in London: The finding, based on an analysis of nearly 400,000 infants, is the first that links by-products of water chlorination – chemicals [...]
