Tag: Pollution - Page 8

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  State Department Says Keystone XL Will Have Little Environmental Impact - Campaigners Disagree

  As protesters continue their civil disobedience outside the White House (pictured above), and getting arrested by the score each day, the State Department has taken a further step towards approving the

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  The Fight is on to Stop Coal's Expansion Into Illinois

  Big Coal companies from Appalachia are eyeing President Obama's backyard with intentions of transforming the Illinois Basin into

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  Pepsi Partners With Nature Conservancy to Assess Their Footprint in Water-Stressed Areas

  Pepsi does not have the greatest track record when it comes to social responsibility, particularly with regard to its use of water in countries already stressed for water resources. So while it's too soon to tell if this is a

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  Nation's Largest Environmental Organization Leaders Unite Opposing Keystone XL Pipeline

  275 people have been arrested so far outside the White House, protesting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, and there are ten days to go. Now, the protestors have gained some additional support, in the form of the leaders of some of the US' biggest

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  Expanding Desert, Falling Water Tables, and Toxic Pollutants Driving People From Their Homes

  People do not normally leave their homes, their families, and their communities unless they have no other option. Yet as environmental stresses mount, we can expect to see a growing number of environmental

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  US Military's Open Burn Pits in Afghanistan May Be Making People Sick

  Photo by Ryan Lackey via Flickr CC - "This is the never-ending burn pit at Balad. It's a rather crude waste disposal method (burn off anything that burns, then sell the rest in bulk to Iraqis for metal recycling), but it works well enough -- except when

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  TED Talk: How Over 40,000 Penguins Were Rescued From An Oil Spill

  Dyan deNapoli feels very strongly that when an oil spill occurs, oiled animals should be cleaned and released. Every animal, she states, should have a second chance at life. Her reasons for feeling strongly about the

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  More Drilling In The Gulf, The Death Of A Thousand Cuts

  CleanTechnica has an interesting op-ed about the abundance of oil wells -- and abandoned wells -- in the Gulf of Mexico. It has a lot of links to news sources from the New York Times to Huffington Post to The Sword Press that will keep you interested

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  Keystone XL Pipeline "Voluntary" Safety Measures Actually Minimum Required By Law

  Daily protest against the pipeline will take place outside the White House for the next two weeks. At the time of this writing, over 100 people have been arrested. Photo: Milan Ilnyckji for Tar Sands Action/CC BY NRDC pokes some big holes in the claims

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  Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline Jobs Benefits Exaggerated

  As the protests against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline begin tomorrow in Washington DC, here's another stat

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  Studying Radioactive Sulfur From Fukushima Teaches Us About Coal Pollution From China

  In amongst all the coverage of and concern about the Fukushima nuclear disaster the fact that air pollution from coal power plants in normal operation kills far more people each year than does nuclear power rose to the top. As for the fallout of that

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  "Industrial Scars" Captures Pollution's Dangerous Beauty in Photographs (Slideshow)

  The production of petroleum, of metals, and of fertilizer—seen here—result in polluted runoff that, when captured in the right moment, are as beautiful as they are troubling.

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  "Industrial Scars" Captures Pollution's Dangerous Beauty in Photographs

  The production of petroleum, of metals, and of fertilizer—seen here—result in polluted runoff that, when captured in the right moment, are as beautiful as they are troubling. Photographer J Henry Fair has captured these moments for his new bo

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  Plastic Disclosure Project to Bring Transparency to Plastic Use At Corporate, Institutional Level

  The perils of our culture's overuse of plastic have been well documented here at TreeHugger, as have suggestions for how to reduce consumption of plastic on an individual basis. But while we can avoid and find

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  Nearly 60% of Americans Oppose Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

  photo: iLoveMountains.org/CC BY Mountaintop removal coal mining. Scientists studying the environmental effects of it say no remediation is ever enough to offset the damage is causes both around the mine and downstream. There have been high-profile

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  Energy Dept Releases Fracking Recommendations - New Yorkers Split On Supporting Shale Gas

  As expected, the DoE has announced its recommendations on what to do about the safety and environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, more commonly and colloquially known as fracking. The recommendations

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  Strong Air Pollution Safeguards are a Matter of Health

  Shortness of breath. Wheezing. Tightening of the chest. Coughing. These are just some of the symptoms of an asthma attack. If

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  Canada's Increasing Tar Sands Emissions Will Cancel Out Carbon Cuts Elsewhere

  A new report from Canada's environment ministry shows that emissions from expanding tar sands production and use will double by 2020 and will overwhelm emission cuts in energy production elsewhere. This will entirely