ImpactsMassachusetts Dept. of Env/Flickr I paddle Boston’s Mystic River as Sackett v. EPA threatens to roll back critical protections Fifty Years after the passage of the Clean Water Act, the future of America’s waterways hangs in the balance.
Causes Hog farm waste spill raises questions about NC regulations The farm turned dead pigs, rotten meat and hog manure into electricity. Its system oozed more than four Olympic-size swimming pools of foam while NC weakened regulations.
Impacts Alaska's Yukon Flats region is seeing major climate-driven changes — and new oil exploration Temperatures are rising, lakes are shrinking, large wildfires have become more frequent and some animals species are moving in from the south.
Impacts Photo by Christian Miranda on Unsplash In Chile, a prickly coalition tries to bring a salt flat back to life Communities say the extraction of groundwater by copper miner Minera Escondida has drained the salt lake and caused irreparable environmental harm.
A controversial facility that would process plastic waste to be burned in steel mills has been cancelled
