Water Pollution

“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…

On April 22, 1970, the United States celebrated its first Earth Day. It was created by Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson to force the government and populace to pay attention to the impact humans have on the natural environment. Earth Day number one saw 20 million people, a full 10 percent…

Bruno Basso, professor of earth and environmental sciences in the College of Natural Science. Credit: Michigan State University In a study published in Nature Sustainability, an ecosystem scientist and an agricultural economist outline how to develop a more sustainable land management system through data collection and stakeholder buy-in. Bruno Basso,…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Two months after President Donald Trump took office, U.S. Steel dumped a plume of cancer-causing metal into a Lake Michigan tributary 20 miles away from a Chicago drinking water intake. The company reported another spill of hexavalent chromium six months later, around the same time public…

Here are 10 environmental hotspots around the globe — and ways that you can help. AMAZON Oil drilling, logging and mining threaten the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, namely those in Brazil. But since 1996, Amazon Watch, with offices in Oakland and Washington, D.C., has worked to protect the…

This article is published in partnership with: I don’t recall where I was on April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day. I was only 12 years old, and demonstrations and teach-ins apparently weren’t on my parents’ list of activities for me. Three years later, however, I was a card-carrying environmentalist…