Scientists 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, […]
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Judge 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 […]
Read moreIsland Of Death
[FROM FORBES] The true scale of the devastating Wakashio oil spill is only just becoming apparent to the Indian Ocean island of […]
Read moreThe Supreme Court will hear a climate change case next year
[from WASHINGTON POST] The Supreme Court will review a key aspect of a big case in which Baltimore is suing Big Oil […]
Read moreExxon’s Plan for Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed in Leaked Documents
[from BLOOMBERG GREEN] Exxon Mobil Corp. has been planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions by as much as the output of the […]
Read more$215M in BP oil spill money to restore Louisiana marshes
“The Mississippi River created our parish and the many historic ridges of our landscape,” said Plaquemines Parish President Kirk Lepine. “These features […]
Read moreSCOTUS’ October term could be somewhat “mooted”
[STEVE VLADECK for SCOTUSBLOG] Recent discussions of the Supreme Court’s upcoming term have understandably focused on the implications of the death of […]
Read more5 of the 6 largest California wildfires in history started in the past 6 weeks
[SACRAMENTO BEE] The staggering statistics keep piling up for California’s wildfire season: August and September account for five of the six biggest […]
Read moreOil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills
[PRO PUBLICA] In May 2019, workers in California’s Central Valley struggled to seal a broken oil well. It was one of thousands […]
Read more‘Nurdle Patrol’ survey finds plastic pellets on almost every Louisiana and Texas beach
At Grand Isle State Park, on a sandy beach popular with sunbathers and anglers, Jace Tunnell pointed to the tide line and […]
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