Water Pollution

Eco darling natural gas gives way to wind, solar and battery electricity – and slave labor Duggan Flanakin When Berkeley, California last year became the first U.S. city to ban the installation of natural gas lines to new homes, Mayor Jesse Arreguín proudly stated, “We are committed to the Paris…

850-foot-tall turbines, 3.5 times DC covered with solar panels, mining, child labor, pricey power Paul Driessen Largely with party-line, urban-vs-rural votes, Virginia’s legislature is poised to enact a Clean Economy Act that would eliminate coal-based electricity generation, prevent construction of new gas-fired power plants – and replace reliable, affordable fossil…

Unlike Han Solo, the Star Wars character played by Harrison Ford, federal Judge Gregory K. Frizzell was not frozen in carbonite as a wall ornament for Jabba the Hutt. Nor has his honor been in a coma. He just has not ruled in the State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods…

New mandate letters from the province of Manitoba for cabinet ministers include gaming revenue for legions, a smoking ban at First Nation gaming facilities and perhaps the privatization of some provincial parks.Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister suggested changes to Employment and Income Assistance and prescription dispensing in new instructions to government…

Jason South/The Age/Getty Images How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades March 3, 2020 Every human on Earth is ingesting nearly 2,000 particles of plastic a week. These tiny pieces enter our unwitting bodies from tap water, food, and even the air,…

WASHINGTON – About a third of the delegates needed to secure the Democratic presidential nomination are up for grabs in the voting bonanza known as Super Tuesday. To put it in perspective, there were 155 pledged delegates available in the race's first four contests, which were the obsession of the candidates, voters, pundits…

©Linda Alterwitz, from the series Lost Ground This week, our Art + Science Editor, Linda Alterwitz, shares the work of photographers making work about the phenomenon of Nature and Nurture, where nature is a force for healing and renewal, but also a force that needs care and consideration. Linda states:…

In addition to longstanding objectives like the reduction of chemical fertilisers and pesticides, the European Commission envisages setting three more targets in its new flagship food policy, EURACTIV can reveal. The three new objectives relate to decreasing the use of antimicrobials for farmed animals, increasing the EU’s land area dedicated…

Despite its claims of being a ‘Smart City’, there seems to be no solution to Pune’s garbage disposal problems with residents of Uruli Devachi and Phursungi villages stopping the civic body’s garbage trucks from dumping waste in the landfill near their villages for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday. The…

Renewable energy is clean, does not deplete and competitive alternative source of energy. This implies that renewable sources are replacing fossil fuels in power generation because of its abundance, diversity, and most of all it does not give off greenhouse gases to the environment. However, not all renewable sources are…