More than 90% of Texas' 13,000 gas drilling facilities are releasing toxic chemicals into the Big Sky, but Texas gas operators say it's all "routine and legal." Many of the wells are right next to homes, colleges and athletic fields. Read More...
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It Ain’t Your Grandma’s Aspirin: Bayer Is Top American Air Polluter
We all knew Bayer didn't just make aspirin, but not many of us knew that in making its many chemicals the company is also careless in what it releases into America's air. Read More...
People and Beluga Whales: We’re Both In Contaminated Waters
"Belugas living in the St. Lawrence Seaway developed the same cancers found among workers in the aluminum smelter that was contaminating the seaway." An interview with Sandra Steingraber, a biology professor and cancer survivor, talks about connecting our diseases and environmental chemicals. Read More...
Water: The Yemenis, Now; the American Southwest, Later?
Is the Yemeni unwillingness to give up their drug, qat, and our unwillingness to give up the American Way of Waste mean that we'll end up with waterless towns and cities? We will learn, soon enough. Read More...
Atrazine: DDT All Over Again
This detailed and thorough article on the widespread use of the weed-killer and hormone disrupting chemical, atrazine, reminds us that Rachel Carson's warnings against the poisoning of our landscape and ourselves should still be ringing in our ears. Read More...
Our Personal Environment II: What Gets Under Our Skin
We don’t only absorb what we eat. The skin that seems to shield us from the world is actually one big sponge, selectively absorbing almost everything with which it comes into contact. Most of us don’t take this into account. Maybe it’s just too much to think about, even though we put a lot... Read More...
Environmental April Foolers
This item in the Huffington Post looks at groups and corporations trying to co-opt political and environmental issues. We're just posting the environmental items, like Dow Chemical claiming it's for clean water and the American Chemical Council for chemical safety. Read More...
A Classic Water War Over Public & Industrial Rights
The way this classic legal battle turns out -- between seven hydroelectric plants and a regional water authority -- over who owns the water in North Carolina's Deep River, will affect the state's water laws for generations. Read More...
Supreme Court Ruling Encourages Toxic Dumping into America’s Water Supply
The Supreme Court's mischief ruling parses the 30-year-old Clean Water Act so that it no longer covers many smaller water bodies, even if they feed major water supplies. Polluters are having a toxic dumping party at American's expense. Read More...
Print vs Digital: Which is Greener?
This interview with Don Carli of the Institute of Sustainable Communication brings interesting considerations into the argument between the world of print and the digital universe. Read More...