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- The owners of Pennsylvania and Atlantic City casinos granted ill-advised exemptions from indoor smoking bans contend that they must look to smokers for a sizable share of the pot. But what if smoke-filled casinos are causing patrons to be sickened?
- Working from the classroom to the newsroom and beyond, we have an unparalleled opportunity to foster a culture of collaborative communication that can help sustain a thriving, human-populated planet for many, many generations to come.
- Governments in all parts of the world should sign, ratify, and put into practice the Minamata Convention, which will bring new momentum to working to solve a persistent problem. For children working with mercury all around the world, this convention...
- Huge herds of roaming jellyfish are becoming a huge problem in our ocean, causing millions of dollars in damage and injury and death. The JEROS Robot will hunt them down and kill them.
- Supporters of energy efficiency legislation should “embarrass” congressional leaders for failing to push the bipartisan bill through the Senate, Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Wednesday, calling out top-ranking Republicans and Democrats alike for playing...
- Civil rights and environmental groups are lauding the E.P.A.’s release of proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants. "This is another major step forward to protect future generations from deadly pollution, [which] has the most harmful...
- As climate change heats up California, curtails the winter snowpack and lessens rainfall, Central Valley farmers need to be willing to change with the climate, says a new report from the state.
- More than 150 Obama campaign alumni are pushing the president to reject the proposed 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry millions of gallons of crude oil from Alberta in Canada to American refineries on the Gulf Coast.
- The documentary 'A Paradise in Waiting' highlights problems of climate change by capturing the pains and perils of people living in the Himalayas. Presented by the Himalayan Climate Initiative in association with the British Embassy, the documentary...
- The feasibility of one of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s more high-profile proposals to make New York more resilient, Seaport City, will be studied by the Dutch firm ARCADIS. The initiatives are geared toward making New York City more resistant to...
- The increased certainty that humans were causing global climate change meant we needed to speed up the move to a low carbon economy by three times the current rate, according to Council for Scientific and Industrial Research scientist Bob Scholes.
- Mexico, poised to allow foreign oil extraction for the first time in 75 years, is finding its abundant natural resources also appeal to investors in a much cleaner energy: sunshine.
- Government forecasters who avoided being furloughed are on the lookout for hurricanes. But they're doing it without the help of meteorologists who spend their days improving computer models to account for storm surge, tidal influences and other...
- A contract to build the UK's first nuclear plant in a generation is said to be "within weeks" of completion. Energy Minister Michael Fallon says he is "working intensely" to seal a deal for the £14bn Hinkley Point C reactor in Somerset.
- Still reeling from recent financial crises, Iceland is hoping to use its bountiful sources of geothermal and hydroelectric energy to help boost its economy. Among the country’s more ambitious plans is an undersea cable to carry renewably generated...
- Natural gas fuel company Clean Energy Fuels has launched the continent’s largest effort to fuel vehicles with landfill gas.
- Mercury levels are increasing in the eggs of water birds that nest downstream of Canada’s oil sands region, according to a new study.
- A new study published in the journal of Environmental Science and Technology has found high levels of radiation and salinity in a creek near a drilling wastewater treatment facility in western Pennsylvania.
- Instead of rehashing the science with a tired ‘he said, she said’ model, Environmental Health News chronicled European Union scientists’ financial and political affiliations—weaving a comprehensive story of the influences behind science policy.
- After being fired, scientist Walter Tamosaitis and a watchdog group believe the URS Corporation retaliated over his warning that the radioactive waste facility in Hanford, Wash., had safety issues.
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