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Pennsylvania's 37-fold surge in natural gas production creates dangerous oversight gaps for toxic drilling waste, while Michigan's ambitious 2040 carbon-free electricity mandate faces threats from new data center tax breaks that could undermine clean energy progress.
Pennsylvania’s waterways are confronting an escalating environmental crisis as the state grapples with a “toxic cocktail” of pollution from two major industrial legacies. While communities are still working to remediate decades of contamination from coal mining operations, they now face…
The Northeast Supply Enhancement (NESE) pipeline is making another bid for approval in New Jersey, despite being rejected by both New Jersey and New York regulators in 2019 and 2020. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has already approved…
California reaches unprecedented renewable energy usage as federal climate leadership retreats, while Texas winter storm analysis reveals deadly power grid vulnerabilities for disabled residents dependent on medical equipment. Plus: 77-year-old activist sues Dow Chemical over plastic pollution.
Twenty years after Pennsylvania’s fracking boom transformed the state into a major natural gas producer, officials and experts warn that the commonwealth still lacks adequate oversight of the industry’s radioactive waste problem. This waste management crisis has grown more urgent…
Toyota launches video game platform to mobilize US employees for anti-environmental advocacy as Trump's EPA proposes rolling back cancer-causing formaldehyde protections. Meanwhile, Britain approaches its greenest Christmas ever with record renewable energy, while climate change accelerates global crop pest damage.
More than ten years after Pennsylvania regulators pledged to improve oversight of oil and gas waste tracking, the state still has no reliable way to monitor how much toxic waste the fracking industry produces or where it ultimately ends up.…
Colorado's prestigious NCAR faces potential shutdown amid political pressure, while Trump's energy price promises meet reality as LNG exports push utility costs higher. Meanwhile, Spain launches nationwide climate shelter network and Chicago flood victims still await relief two years later.
Over 80 disaster survivors from 10 states oppose leaked plans to slash FEMA workforce in half, while Trump administration launches new US Wildland Fire Service consolidating federal firefighting operations. Meanwhile, Michigan lawmakers target data center tax breaks amid environmental concerns.
More than 80 disaster survivors from 10 states and Puerto Rico converged on Washington, D.C., Monday to voice strong opposition to a controversial leaked report that could dramatically reshape America’s disaster response system. The survivors, carrying photographs documenting devastation from…
