"Many plastic items that Americans put in their recycling bins aren’t being recycled at all, according to a major new survey of hundreds of recycling facilities across the US."
"Residents of the city of Juliette are rallying behind a pair of bills working through the state legislature that would require more stringent standards for the disposal of coal ash."
"The Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill will pay a $24,000 fine for violations involving the improper disposal of shale gas drilling waste and contaminated liquids in 2019, according to terms of a state Department of Environmental Protection consent order announced Tuesday."
"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for "dialogue and mutual respect" Tuesday as the anti-pipeline protests and blockades that have paralyzed the nation's rail system entered their 12th day."
"There has been a lot of head-butting in Nevada over unions, health care and civility in politics ahead of the Democratic caucuses on Saturday.
But the White House hopefuls vying for votes in the early caucus state have shown a rare bit of unity over what may be the biggest energy and environmental issue in Nevada.
Every major candidate for president has joined Nevada's crusade to stop the completion of a long-delayed nuclear waste storage site under Yucca Mountain some 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
"More states are stepping up to protect people from drinking water contaminated with “forever chemicals” in the absence of federal enforcement."
The David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation annually provides year-long funding awards of up to $150,000 ($300,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities). Plus, access to an advisory and mentoring group, and an alumni network. Deadline: Apr 3, 2025.
The third annual Green Maritime Forum in Hamburg, Germany will gather experts and specialists from shipowner companies, ports, maritime associations and service companies to discuss adopting the Maritime Industry’s most relevant subjects including developing decarbonisation strategies, clean technology and fuels’ development, as well as future opportunities to make the industry carbon neutral.
Are you an SEJ member who's authored, co-authored or edited a non-fiction or fiction environmental book (published in 2018) you'd like included on this page? Documentaries are also welcome. Please send the following to web content manager Cindy MacDonald:
"The southern United States disappeared under rising waters and sudden storms pummel the coast of the Mississippi Sea. New Orleans is gone; so is Florida. Oil is outlawed, and the nation is plunged into a second civil war marked by disease and desperate refugees. ... This is cli-fi."
