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Will San Francisco Achieve Its Goal of Zero Waste by 2020?
In 2002, San Francisco made a promise that it intends to keep: by 2020 the city will eliminate all waste that is neither recycled nor composted.
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The Next Steps for the EPA’s Clean Power Plan
The new carbon-cutting standard gives every state the opportunity to chart its own energy future.
SCOTUS Ruling Limits EPA Regulatory Power
A Supreme Court ruling affecting the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory power came down on Monday. It will limit their right to require permits from stationary polluters like power plants …
The Carnage of Pollution
US land grant universities - funded by petrochemical companies to maintain the fiction of the safety and usefulness of pesticides - earn small amounts of money at the cost …
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The US Chemical Safety Board’s Turmoil Is Playing With Public Safety
Political infighting at the US Chemical Safety Board, the government agency tasked with investigating chemical accidents to prevent future disasters, has delayed official reports and put public safety at …
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Green Groups Endorse Empty EPA Carbon Emissions Regulation
Why did environmentalists not reject the flaccid EPA carbon emissions regulation proposals as too little, too late?
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How the EPA Faked the Entire Science of Sewage Sludge Safety: A Whistleblower’s Story
While working at the EPA, Dr. David Lewis published evidence that a New Hampshire teen died and other neighbors were harmed from living near land applied with sewage sludge.
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Report: A Carbon Tax That Would Create Jobs, Cut Emissions and Put Money in Your Pocket
Giving taxpayers $250 per month, reducing carbon emissions and boosting the economy. This is what the future could hold if the United States imposed a revenue-neutral carbon tax on …
Portland’s E. Coli Scare: How Mushrooms Could Have Helped Prevent It
Filters that contain fungi with powerful antibiotic properties can help remove harmful bacteria from water.
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SCOTUS Hands Down Another Big Defeat for Big Coal
The Supreme Court ruled that the EPA has the authority to regulate emissions from fossil-fuel burning power plants that drift across state lines, to states that may not share …