"Florida Crisis Highlights a Nationwide Risk From Toxic Ponds"
"Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change."
"Thousands of open-air waste pools near power plants, mines and industrial farms can pose safety dangers from poor management and, increasingly, the effects of climate change."
"When parents first serve solid foods to their babies, they often turn to infant rice cereal. The iron-fortified mix is nutritious and relatively easy to feed babies unaccustomed to spoons or strong flavors. But the Food and Drug Administration allows 10 times as much arsenic in this favored first food as it does in other products, like bottled water and apple juice — despite the fact that, as a neurotoxin, arsenic can have an outsize impact on babies, whose brains are still developing."
"Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with Utah politicians, tribal leaders and other stakeholders Wednesday and Thursday as President Biden weighs whether to change the boundaries of two monuments that were shrunk by former President Trump."
"A new report from the U.S. intelligence community paints a bleak picture of what Americans can expect over the next 20 years, warning of a planet that will be ravaged by pandemics and climate change."
"President Biden has nominated Robert Anderson, the Interior Department’s principal deputy solicitor, to serve as the department’s solicitor, according to an announcement Wednesday."
"President Joe Biden’s plan to eliminate subsidies claimed by oil and gas companies and raise levies on corporate polluters would increase government receipts by $35 billion over the coming decade. "
"US banks are pledging to help fight the climate crisis alongside the Biden administration, but their boards are dominated by people with climate-related conflicts of interest, and they continue to invest deeply in fossil fuel projects."
"How a protest in a North Carolina farming town sparked a national movement".
"Gibson Dunn’s extreme tactics against environmental attorney Steven Donziger spark a backlash."
"Unrelenting drought and years of rising temperatures due to climate change are pushing the long-overallocated Colorado River into new territory, setting the stage for the largest mandatory water cutbacks to date."