Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following through on his commitment to action during his Journey to Justice Tour, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the first in a series of actions on Wednesday responding directly to concerns of communities historically and disproportionately impacted by pollution in the South, including “Cancer Alley”…
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Maryland Environmental Activists Fight Proposed Forestland Sale by NASA
Doomsday Clock Set at 100 Seconds to Midnight
On 75th Anniversary, The Time is the Closest to Midnight in Clock’s History – Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the past year offered glimmers of hope that humankind might reverse its march toward global catastrophe, the Doomsday Clock was set at just 100 seconds to midnight on Thursday. The time is based on…
How America’s Complicated History With Toxic Exposure and Environmental Racism is Impacting Vulnerable Communities
Guest Column – By Jonathan Sharp – Environmental racism is a kind of racial inequality prevalent in the United States of America and around the world. Environmentally toxic plants, dumping grounds and similar sites are often located in low-income areas populated by people of color. Exposure to materials in and around these sites often lead…
New Study Confirms the Science Forecasting More Frequent and Destructive Hurricanes Due to Global Warming
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – Scientists for decades have been warning that climate change due to global warming from the burning of fossil fuels for energy would cause more destructive and costly hurricanes to hit the continental United States with increasing ferocity. Study after study show this to be the case. But as…
Biden Administration Announces Plan to Cut Methane Pollution that Threatens the Climate and Public Health
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Biden administration says the United States will for the first time heavily regulate the potent greenhouse gas methane, which leaks from oil and natural gas platforms and is a significant source of air pollution that is contributing to warming the atmosphere 80 times as fast as carbon dioxide,…
New Studies Show Climate Change Leads to the ‘Biggest Health Threat Facing Humanity’
85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events made worse by climate change – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two new science reports out Monday show that climate change is leading to major health threats against humanity and that at least 85 percent of the global population has experienced weather events…
Summer 2021 Was Hottest on Record in the United States
Staff Report – Summer 2021 was the hottest summer on record, according to 126 years of records for the contiguous United States. So says a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released Thursday. The average temperature for all of the Lower 48 states from June through August was 74.0 degrees Fahrenheit, or 2.6…
No More Hurricanes Named Ida: New Orleans Evacuates People in No Power Zones
Staff Report – Hurricane Ida’s deadly and destructive siege of wind and flooding from Louisiana to the Northeast virtually guarantees the retirement of that name from future use. Atlantic tropical storm and hurricane name lists repeat every six years unless a storm is so severe that the name is retired from future lists. This avoids…
Global Warming Causes Climate Change, Fueling Larger and More Violent Hurricanes
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ida is a feminine given name found in Europe and North America, also popular in Scandinavian countries, where it is pronounced Ee-da. The name has an ancient Germanic etymology meaning “industrious” or “prosperous” and derives from the Germanic root id meaning “labor, work.” Clearly the National Hurricane Center,…
Ida Makes Landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 Hurricane
Staff Report – Ida roared ashore in southeastern Louisiana on Sunday as a category 4 hurricane, bringing several feet of storm surge flooding and extreme winds that are crushing the Gulf Coast, according to reporting from the Weather Channel. Reports continue to trickle out of Grand Isle, Louisiana, detailing the disastrous conditions there, where water…
Forty Million People Rely on the Colorado River and It’s Drying Up Fast
July 2021: The Hottest Month In Recorded Human History
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s official, and one for the record books. July was the hottest month ever recorded in human history, according to new data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information.. “In this case, first place is the worst place to be,” NOAA Administrator Rick…
June Sets Record for Hottest Ever in North America
Red Road to DC: Lummi Nation to Transport Climate Change Totem Poll from Washington State to Washington, D.C.
Staff Report – WASHINGTON, D.C. — As record-breaking heat waves and floods ravage the continent, members of the Lummi Nation are transporting a 25-foot, hand-carved and painted totem pole from Washington State to Washington D.C., visiting many sacred and historic places along the way under threat from climate change, dams and resource extraction. They are…
Biden EPA Issues Authoritative Report on Global Warming and Climate Change
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – What a difference a respect for science makes. After four years of being gutted and corrupted by the influence of polluting industry insiders with their heads all stuck up the hole in Donald Trump’s cult of personality backside, the Environmental Protection Agency is back in the Biden administration.…
TVA Coal Ash Disaster Revisited: Is it Time for EPA to Regulate the Toxic Sludge as Hazardous Waste?
The American Public’s Concern for the Environment is A Cause for Worry
Water Pollution Remains the Top Environmental Concern in the U.S. – Public Opinion Analysis – By Glynn Wilson – The American public is not worried enough about the state of the natural environment to save themselves or the world. That’s not the headline on the latest Gallup poll reporting concern for environmental issues in the…