Tag: EPA

Remember the national debate over the expansion of the Keystone pipeline? Remember how Republicans promised it would bring jobs and present minimal environmental damage?...

Smack dab in the middle of the Caribbean, the U.S. Virgin Islands epitomizes the phrase "tropical paradise." Unfortunately, a family of four visiting from...

On March 15, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held the second of three hearings on the water crisis in Flint, Mich. During...

The other shoe may have dropped in the contamination of Flint, Michigan's drinking water. Late Tuesday afternoon, federal prosecutors in Detroit announced that they are...

The beautiful city of Dallas, TX recently got a big pat on the back from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). While that should be...

There have been multiple news stories and personal accounts of the harmful effects of fracking. In case this term is new to you, fracking (short for hydraulic fracturing) is a process...

God forbid we want our children to breathe clean air! I know a young woman whose mother worked at a plant that used mercury...

As much as he may try to say that he's his "own man," Jeb Bush is looking more and more like big brother George...

An oil spill into the Yellow Stone River has contaminated the tap water for thousands of Glendive Montana area residents. An estimated 50,000 gallons...

Last Friday, NASA and NOAA released a?report revealing that 2014 was the hottest year on record. Using tree rings and ice cores, University of...

// // Every now and again, I try to imagine a day in the life of a Republican lawmaker. ?Wake up, shower, get dressed,...

    Diesel truck traffic is responsible for emitting harmful, microscopic particles into the air, according to Dr. Michael McCawley's extensive research at West Virginia University's...

    Power plants are at present the single largest source of carbon pollution in the United States. Carbon pollution not only is a greenhouse gas...

The success of Netflix's 'House Of Cards' (HOC) is partly due, we are told, to cynicism. Just Google, or Bing, "house of cards cynical"...

After an abysmal track record of leaning toward the preferences of coal and power companies the EPA has finally agreed to regulate the disposal...

In the shadow of national outcry about West Virginia water poisoned with coal processing chemicals, a former West Virginia coal miner named Joe Stanley...

During this Breast Cancer Awareness Month scientists and advocates are focusing attention on Bisphenol A, an ingredient in the gooey film that lines food...

As the Koch brothers stand to profit $100 billion dollars from tar sands and the KXL pipeline, residents of a low-income neighborhood in Chicago...

In March the State Department issued a very controversial report stating that the environmental risks of the Keystone XL were minimal. This report was...