Coal was on its way out. But surging US electricity demand is keeping it alive.
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Wildfire smoke is always toxic. LA's is even worse. Experts expect long term health impacts.
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Oslo leads in quiet, low-emission electric construction – drop in decibels is welcome side-effect of goal to keep city-managed construction projects free from toxic emissions
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These nearly silent wind turbines have owl-inspired ‘feathers’
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Growing pollution in Pakistan’s Punjab province has sickened 1.8M people in a month, officials say
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Finland first in world to ban cargo ships from dumping untreated sewage
14 votes -
Recordings by biologist Heike Vester reveal how oil and gas exploration as well as cruises, fishing boats and even whale-watchers are creating noise pollution that threatens return of Norway's whales
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Delhi shuts schools, bans construction as pollution levels hit new high
15 votes -
US Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration announces $3 billion of investments in clean ports
24 votes -
Sweden abolishes tax on plastic bags despite warnings usage could rise – centre-right coalition government says consumption already below EU target
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More US states ban PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals,’ in more products
38 votes -
Victims of toxic waste dump in Ivory Coast still seeking justice
7 votes -
‘Paper or plastic?’ will no longer be a choice at California grocery stores
32 votes -
Cement is a big polluter. Heidelberg Materials in Norway is betting it can profit from carbon capture that will reduce the carbon dioxide.
10 votes -
Comprehensive bipartisan plastics recycling bill tackles plastics pollution in US
27 votes -
Large wildfires choke 60% of Brazil and large chunks of neighboring countries in smoke
17 votes -
New filtration material could remove long-lasting chemicals from water
6 votes -
US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to invest $76 million closing legacy oil & gas wells in Pennsylvania
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Ocean plastics: How much do rich countries contribute by shipping their waste overseas?
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Eleven on trial in Sweden's largest environmental crime case – Bella Nilsson's company Think Pink accused of dumping at least 200,000 tonnes of waste
23 votes -
Heidelberg Materials' cement plant in Norway will be the first of a handful around the world to capture carbon in the production of cement
16 votes -
Industrial emissions poised to become largest US carbon source
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US EPA awards $4.3 billion to fund projects in thirty states to reduce climate pollution
28 votes -
Ecuador river is granted the right to not be polluted in historic court case
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Turning brownfields to blooming meadows, with the help of fungi
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Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital
24 votes -
Trees blamed for air pollution
10 votes -
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution.
21 votes -
Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a troubling trend
13 votes -
‘Termination shock’: cut in ship pollution sparked global heating spurt
13 votes -
How 3M covered up "forever chemicals"
66 votes -
Canada’s fire season erupts, sending harmful smoke into United States
20 votes -
Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
43 votes -
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
33 votes -
Dozens of Texas water systems exceed new federal PFAS limits
12 votes -
California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water
17 votes -
Joe Biden administration sets first-ever limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water
26 votes -
UK law firm files letter of claim on behalf of Madagascar villagers over contamination allegedly from Rio Tinto mine
7 votes -
California is preparing to defend itself — and the nation — against Donald Trump 2.0
31 votes -
Iowa fertilizer spill kills nearly all fish across sixty mile stretch of rivers
47 votes -
Joe Biden administration commits $6B to cut US emissions from high-carbon industries
19 votes -
Green corridors - How a Colombian city cooled dramatically in just three years
17 votes -
Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India
31 votes -
How bad is Tesla’s hazardous waste problem in California?
15 votes -
The $2.6 billion experiment to cover up Europe's dirty habit – Norwegian project to bury carbon waste under the sea is getting backing from Germany
8 votes -
'Smoking gun proof': fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
28 votes -
A landslide of contaminated soil threatens environmental disaster in Denmark. Who pays to stop it?
19 votes -
Lessons from Finland's attempt to transition to a circular economy
15 votes -
Oil companies will soon pay fees for emitting a climate ‘super-pollutant’
11 votes -
Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan
29 votes