The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence. What will really matter in the long run? That’s the question we tackle each year ...
The operator of a now-shuttered wood treatment facility in Eugene has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of breaking clean air and hazardous waste laws, and will pay $1.5 million in criminal penalties ...
They’re impossible to see, smell or taste in our water, but according to the EPA, manmade chemicals known as PFAs are dangerous to human health even at the smallest levels.
The penultimate edition in its long-running Park City location, the Sundance Film Festival began today, and, as I note every year, the event is bellwether when it comes to an assessment of the ...
Rebuilding homes destroyed by wildfires in the Los Angeles area could take more than a year to even begin — and that’s if everything goes smoothly, according to Rick Caruso, a billionaire developer ...
Senate Panel Approval: Former Georgia Rep. Doug Collins received an 18-1 vote from the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee to advance his nomination as VA secretary. Key Concerns Raised: Sen. Mazie ...
President Trump has revoked a 1994 directive that required agencies to protect minority or low-income areas from pollution and health hazards ...
In what's often called the world's worst industrial disaster, a 1984 chemical accident at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, unleashed a toxic gas that killed thousands of people over subsequent ...
Residents living in the vicinity of a Pembrokeshire landfill emitting odours previously described as a ‘stink bomb on steroids’ say that their lives are being made a misery, and are demanding a public ...
Plans to expand a lakefront dump for polluted sediment would amount to “open dumping," given a landfill ban in Cook County, state environmental officials told a judge as activists sue to stop the ...
The Madhya Pradesh government has temporarily halted waste incineration. Authorities have stated that the local protests, ...
A huge contingent of fire vehicles have been tasked with containing a major inferno that has engulfed the main building of ...