"The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing."
"A pastor is resurrecting the Poor People’s Campaign, a movement started by Martin Luther King Jr. He sees the climate and environment as issues on par with poverty and racism."
"Among the many battles Sen. John McCain waged in his storied career, it is easy to overlook his fight for U.S. action on climate change."
"Backed by agrochemical companies, the current administration and Congress are moving to curb the role of human health studies in regulation."
"Eastern Shore crab houses are suffering this summer because they didn’t get the visas needed to hire enough pickers from Mexico."
"Carbon pricing will be on the ballot in Washington state in November, and the money is pouring in from big-name environmental groups backing the initiative and oil companies hoping to kill it."
In his 12 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, he’s ruled against species protections 95 percent of the time."
"The mammoth trash incinerator located in Detroit’s midtown frequently exceeds pollution limits, but is seldom fined by the Department of Environmental Quality."
"Hundreds of municipal water supplies throughout Michigan may have unsafe levels of an emerging, persistent chemical compound once used in nonstick surfaces. But the State of Michigan, critics contend, is using outdated measuring criteria — meaning hundreds of communities have levels of the chemical that Michigan says are safe, but other studies show may be harmful."
"Bots and Russian trolls spread misinformation about vaccines on Twitter to sow division and distribute malicious content before and during the American presidential election, according to a new study."
