Tag: pollution
This year’s ozone hole is the smallest it’s been since 1988
The ozone shield in Earth’s stratosphere helps absorb the sun’s dangerous ultraviolet radiation, which causes problems such as skin cancer.
Tell Tyson Foods to clean up its pollution
Sign the petition to tell Tyson Foods to clean up their pollution and stop polluting our waterways.
Judges block Trump administration from rescinding Obama-era environmental regulations
“No man, no woman is above the law. You have to follow the rule of law. It makes no difference if you are in the White House or not.”
US Secretary of Energy announces support for cost-shared research and development...
Unfortunately, the DOE hopes that the solutions will enable competitive operation of fossil-based power generation infrastructure in a low-carbon future, rather than focusing on clean energy.
DOE proposes outrageous, massive coal and nuclear bailout
If adopted, the proposal would essentially ensure that coal and nuclear plants in regions encompassing most of the country continue to run even where they are too expensive to compete in the energy market.
2.9 million children are threatened by toxic air pollution from oil...
Living within a 1/2 mile of these production facilities is clearly correlated with negative health impacts.
UN environment chief: Make polluters, not taxpayers, pay for destroying nature
A "pollution-free planet" is achievable but the world must take immediate action to meet that goal.
From carpet to clean air: It’s time for California to stand...
Our representatives should uplift our health and quality of life not in words, but with action.
China invests $100B in water clean-up projects
For the people's sake, let’s hope China is able to meet their 2017 goals, and perhaps inspire other countries to follow suit.
New tobacco filters sprout seeds when littered
“After all, any business that makes only money, we believe, is a bad business.”
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Trump defies court order, deports hundreds under 1798 wartime law in unprecedented legal overreach
Despite a federal judge’s order to halt deportations, the Trump administration expelled over 200 Venezuelans and a Brown University doctor, sparking outrage over its use of an 18th-century law and open defiance of the judiciary.
You’re wrong Elon. Social Security’s not the ‘Ponzi Scheme’–The ‘unrealized gains’– taxloophole is…
“At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains.”
ProPublica’s embrace of large language models echoes what I’ve been saying all along
This distinction between “AI” as a vague, catch-all term and the specific type of advanced pattern-finding model actually at play here matters immensely.
The Trump Inversion Scam makes the world great again – except for America and abused...
Trumpism in a nutshell: batter average citizens to buttress concentrated crony capitalist power. DOGE will end up not as positive, creative destruction, simply self-destructive destruction.
UK carbon emissions reach lowest level since 1872
Coal use plummets to levels not seen since the 1600s.