Water Pollution

Credit: CC0 Public Domain On March 1, New York State instituted its plastic bag ban, joining seven other states in an attempt to lessen litter, garbage in landfills, ocean pollution, and harm to marine life. March 1 was also the day that New York acknowledged its first coronavirus case. And…

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has ruled that a lawsuit can proceed challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to update national standards to control water pollution from slaughterhouses. Wednesday’s decision, in a lawsuit filed by community and conservation groups late last year, deferred for later consideration…

Thomas Jefferson was an amateur paleontologist and published a scholarly paper on the prehistoric Megalonyx—a giant sloth. John Quincy Adams had a passion for astronomy. Abraham Lincoln applied for and received a patent for a device to lift boats off of sandbars. James Garfield developed a mathematical proof of the…

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This story was originally published by Grist and is posted here as part of an ongoing collaboration. Pedestrians have taken over city streets, people have almost entirely stopped flying, skies are blue (even in Los Angeles!) for the first time in decades, and global CO2 emissions are on-track to drop…

“Supreme Court: Dimming the Light of Sinai.” The New York Sun has published this editorial. “Why a case about jury verdicts could spell trouble for Roe v. Wade”: Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. “Originalism and ‘Dual-Track Incorporation'”: William Baude has this post at the…

Source: 'Amirali Mirhashemian on Unsplash' When the history of COVID-19 is written, will we list our obsession with eating animals as a major cause that led to a catastrophe of such profound consequence? Will we have learned from the lesson of the Wuhan “wet market”—where COVID-19 is theorized to have…

Today the Supreme Court gave environmental groups a surprise victory in Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.  Writing for a six-justice majority, Justice Breyer explained that the Clean Water Act requirement of a permit for discharging pollutants into waters of the United States applies not only to direct discharges from point sources,…

Dissolved oxygen and pH criteria leave fisheries at risk By Stephen J. Tomasetti, Christopher J. Gobler Science24 Apr 2020 : 372-373 Regulations have not kept pace with scientific understanding of coastal hypoxia and acidification Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected arguments by President Donald Trump’s administration seeking to limit the reach of a landmark water pollution law in a Hawaii dispute over wastewater indirectly discharged into the Pacific Ocean - a ruling hailed by environmentalists. FILE PHOTO: The Supreme Court…