EPA cites 2 oil and gas firms over Permian Basin pollution
Two Texas companies have resolved Clean Air Act violations with the Environmental Protection Agency by agreeing to reduce emissions of planet-warming methane and other harmful pollutants wafting from the nation’s largest oil and gas producing region.
Black Americans, Low-Income Americans May Benefit Most from Stronger Air Pollution Policies
Stronger regulations lowering levels of fine particulate air pollutants (PM2.5) would benefit the health of all Americans, but Black Americans and low-income Americans would likely reap the most benefits, including a lower risk of premature death, according to a new study led by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and the University of Colorado.
U.S. renewable electricity surpassed coal in 2022
Electricity generated from renewables surpassed coal in the United States for the first time in 2022, the U.S. Energy Information Administration announced Monday.
Can overdose prevention centers help ease San Francisco’s fatal drug crisis?
In December 2021, San Francisco’s Mayor London Breed declared a 90-day state of emergency in the Tenderloin, the neighborhood most damaged by the city’s drug crisis. It was a fiery speech in which she vowed to be “less tolerant of all the bullshit that has destroyed our city.”
Twenty years on, reflection and regret on 2002 Iraq war vote
Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow was sitting in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s conference room at the Pentagon, listening to him make the case that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction.
