The Environmental Protection Agency has rescinded the 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten human health and welfare. President Donald Trump called the move "the single largest deregulatory action in American history" and said the repealed finding had "no basis in fact" Environmental scientists say the rescission is concerning and could have major implications for health.
Jay and Kristen Ruskey died suddenly at their Cambria home on Sunday. They were owners of Good Land Organics and co-founders of Frinj Coffee. The Ruskeys helped develop more than 65 coffee farms from Santa Barbara to north of San Diego that grow 14 varieties of coffee. Jay Ruskey was lauded as the first farmer to sell locally grown coffee …
Initiative Foods is recalling one lot of the "Tippy Toes" brand Apple Pear Banana Fruit puree due to high levels of patulin in the product. Patulin is a naturally occurring substance called a mycotoxin. The product was distributed to grocery stores in every state except Alaska and potentially to Puerto Rico and Guam. There have been no reported illnesses or …
AllenCo, the site’s since 2009, repeatedly flouted the environmental regulations, and eventually the company had to plug the company and unplug the unvigorously. The archdiocese of Los Angeles is located across the street from several buildings and less than 1,000 feet from St. Vincent School.
The Trump administration has revoked the basis for all US climate regulations. The 2009 endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare and should be controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency. The move prompted widespread condemnation from climate experts and advocates for environmental, public health, and economic justice.
The Potomac River sewage incident is shaping up to be one of the biggest in U.S. history. D.C. Water estimated that 243 million gallons of wastewater had overflowed from the collapse site, with 194 million gallons overflowing within the first five days. Environmentalists claim the sewage spill topped 300 million gallons.
More than three dozen Democratic senators have begun an independent inquiry into the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following a change in how the agency measures the health benefits of reducing air pollution. The effort is being led by the ranking member of the Senate committee on the environment and public works, Sheldon Whitehouse. The lawmakers want the EPA to …
This week's science news was filled with stories about ecological transformations. China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it has turned it into a carbon sink. A mass grave in Cambridge, England, contains the dismembered remains of 10 people, including a giant who'd had brain surgery. Scientists performed dream inception to solve a mystery.
Alexei Navalny died two years ago in a Russian penitentiary center. He was poisoned with a deadly toxin, epibatidine, extracted from the Ecuadorian poison dart frog. UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and the UK have launched a joint statement at the Munich Security Conference.