"Cummins Inc has agreed to recall about 500,000 medium- and heavy-duty trucks in the United States to correct a faulty emissions control system in the engines it made for the trucks, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday."
"Heat waves continue to wash over the globe, breaking records and threatening lives. This year is on track to rank among the four hottest years on record—together with 2015, 2016, and 2017." But the news media are ignoring the climate connection.
"A year after Hurricane Harvey, Port Arthur is fighting for survival. Will Texas' disaster recovery process push residents deeper into despair, or help lift them out of it?"
"Internal studies and other documents show that 3M knew by the 1970s that PFOA and PFOS were toxic and accumulating in people's blood."
"The Senate on Tuesday passed a short-term extension of the federal flood insurance program, sending it to President Trump for his signature hours before an Aug. 1 deadline."
"The summertime low-oxygen "dead zone" along Louisiana's Gulf Coast is dramatically smaller in 2018 -- 2,720 square miles, or the size of the state of Delaware -- a team of researchers announced Tuesday (July 31)."
"Nearly everything we understand about global warming was understood in 1979." "It was understood that action would have to come immediately." "Why didn’t we act? "
The third Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Seminar on Urban Water Management takes place September 13-14, 2018 in Budapest, Hungary, comprising plenary sessions and parallel sessions for presentations, discussions, case studies and best practice sharing.
Environment America used >5,000 data points from more than a dozen sources to create this map for journalists, policymakers and citizens to pinpoint pollution sources and other threats to this important water source for drinking, wildlife and recreation.
"Florida has an algae problem, and it’s big. This year, an overgrowth in the waters off the state’s southwestern coast is killing wildlife and making some beaches noxious."
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