HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF FIREFIGHTING FOAMS
WRITTEN BY: MICHAEL G. STAG Firefighting foams have long been essential for controlling fuel-based fires in military, industrial, and municipal settings. However, […]
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A Plan Made to Shield Big Tobacco From Facts Is Now E.P.A. Policy
Nearly a quarter century ago, a team of tobacco industry consultants outlined a plan to create “explicit procedural hurdles” for the Environmental […]
Read moreWalmart Accused in U.S. Lawsuit of Fueling Opioid Crisis
The U.S. government accused Walmart Inc. of fueling a nationwide opioid crisis by ignoring warnings from its own pharmacists that the chain […]
Read moreSacklers Face Furious Questions in Rare Testimony on Opioid Epidemic
Members of Congress on Thursday hurled withering comments and furious questions at two members of the billionaire Sackler family that owns Purdue […]
Read moreThe Sacklers’ Last Poison Pill
The opioid crisis remains one of America’s deadliest public health disasters. Victims demand answers about how it happened and who was responsible. […]
Read moreSt. Landry Parish, Cankton, sue oil companies over possible aquifer contamination
The St. Landry Parish government and the village of Cankton are suing more than 25 companies, including Chevron, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips, […]
Read moreE.P.A.’s Final Deregulatory Rush Runs Into Open Staff Resistance
President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency was rushing to complete one of its last regulatory priorities, aiming to obstruct the creation of air- […]
Read moreSpecial Report: U.S. air monitors routinely miss pollution – even refinery explosions
When explosions ripped through a Philadelphia oil refinery last year, the shock waves knocked Felicia Menna’s front door frame out of place. […]
Read moreScientists link record-breaking hurricane season to climate crisis
Paddling in a canoe through the flood waters left by Hurricane Eta in his rural village near the north coast of Honduras, […]
Read moreJudge delays crucial permit for Formosa plastics plant
[BY DAVID MITCHELL] A state district judge sent critical air permits for a $9.4 billion Formosa Plastics complex back to state environmental […]
Read moreBankruptcy judge OKs federal settlement with Purdue Pharma
[By GEOFF MULVIHILL] Proposed settlements between the federal government and OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners cleared a major legal hurdle […]
Read moreMarathon Petroleum, accused of fraudulently seeking tax exemption
[BY: SARA SNEATH] A state board deferred consideration of $43 million in tax breaks for Marathon Petroleum Friday after claims that the […]
Read moreNearly 100,000 Western New Yorkers have been diagnosed with cancer
Startling statistics that our New York clients are sadly, all to familiar with. Buffalo Business First crunched the numbers from the New […]
Read morePurdue’s massive opioid settlement is tangled in a bankruptcy court fight
By: BLOOMBERG Purdue Pharma’s massive settlement over claims that it helped spark the opioid crisis is facing pushback in federal court, creating […]
Read moreProject Will Address Risk of Flood-Induced Chemical Spills at Gulf Coast Facilities
The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has awarded Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) with a […]
Read moreEPA Approves Use of Dicamba Weed Killer Linked to Cancer
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved for five years the use of two products with the weedkiller dicamba on cotton and soybeans […]
Read moreFracking Has a Radioactive Problem
Harvard scientists have found that fracking is associated with greatly increased radioactive particulate in the air, especially in West Virginia’s dependent petrochemical […]
Read moreSmell in the air being investigated by LDEQ
[FROM WBRZ] It’s one of the worst smells Carlas Williams says she’s ever smelled in her life. “We don’t know what it […]
Read moreOxyContin maker to plead to 3 criminal charges
Purdue Pharma, the company that makes OxyContin, the powerful prescription painkiller that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead […]
Read moreEnergy Dept confirms electric vehicles are better for the environment
[FROM CLEANTECHNICA] The US Department of Energy has put to rest the myth that EVs are worse for the environment than vehicles […]
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