environment
I talked a bit about the emissions problems at the Sriracha factory last fall. In short, residents living near a chile sauce factory that is indifferent to emissions violations do.
Like the absurdly low OSHA violation fines that give employers no incentive to fix safety problems on the job, the low fines for corporate polluters are just a drop in.
Hard to see the problem: Beijing's water authorities have defended their plan to ease the capital's water shortage by processing seawater from the highly polluted Bohai Gulf, a mainland newspaper.
The evidence connecting climate change to specific weather events continues to grow, as this NASA run-down of research on the California drought demonstrates (PDF).
Twenty years ago, President Clinton shepherded the creation of the Northwest Forest Plan, designed to put an end to the conflict in Pacific Northwest forests between timber companies and environmentalists.
I know Bob Nolan and the boys long ago taught you that tumbleweeds were a charming part of the West: But in fact, tumbleweeds, actually Russian thistle, is a nasty.
Well, this probably ain't good: Research from University of Maryland, published yesterday in the journal Global Change Biology, shows that the predictions by scientists that some animals will deal with.
Republicans may hate national parks, but they love dumping coal waste into streams. The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow coal mining companies to.