The director of South Carolina’s new environmental department pledged Monday to focus on protecting the state’s water, air and landscape from pollution, while improving service, as the agency establishes itself as a replacement for the state’s often-criticized health and environmental department. At a news conference under a broiling July sun, Department of Environmental Services chief […]
Sculptures made from discarded flip-flops salvaged from beaches across Kenya are being featured at the Frenchgate shopping centre in Doncaster. Ocean Sole, a social enterprise, turns the flung-away footwear into artworks in the form of sea creatures. The Frenchgate Centre says displaying some of the art reminds people about the harm plastic pollution can cause. […]
We’ve reached a point when scientists can easily gauge levels of greenhouse gases or other air pollutants just by measuring their concentrations in the atmosphere. However, with these measurements alone, it is not necessarily obvious where the pollution actually comes from. How could we tell which specific neighborhoods in a city, for example, spawn the […]
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an interstate air quality rule issued last year by the Biden administration to limit ozone that comes from power plants and industrial sites in the Midwest and sends polluted air drifting toward the East Coast. The vote was 5-4, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the three liberals in […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a Biden administration environmental regulation aimed at curbing harmful air pollution that crosses from one state to another and contributes to the formation of smog. In doing so, the court on a 5-4 vote granted requests from three Republican-led states — Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia — […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is putting the Environmental Protection Agency’s air pollution-fighting “good neighbor” plan on hold while legal challenges continue, the conservative-led court’s latest blow to federal regulations. The justices in a 5-4 vote on Thursday rejected arguments by the Biden administration and Democratic-controlled states that the plan was cutting air pollution […]
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked an Environmental Protection Agency regulation aimed at reducing ozone emissions that may worsen air pollution in neighboring states, handing a victory to three Republican-led states and the steel and fossil-fuel industries that had challenged the rule. The 5-4 decision granted requests by Ohio, […]
BALTIMORE — Planes are circling over power plants, landfills and airports around Baltimore collecting data for NASA on air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Researchers and students will fly multiple times between Monday and next Wednesday, June 26, according to a news release from NASA. Instruments on the aircraft will be measuring carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen […]
SAMOENG, Thailand (AP) — When the haze season comes, village chief Nanthawat Tiengtrongsakun and his tribesmen start preparing the land for fire. They cut shrubs and trees on their small parcels of land, then set controlled burns that will clear their fields for planting — and send up plumes of smoke that add to some […]
An air quality alert was issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for Saturday. The alert is for Wise, Denton, Collin, Hunt, Parker, Tarrant, Dallas, Rockwall, Kaufman, Hood, Johnson, Ellis and Henderson counties. “The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Saturday, June […]
An air quality alert was issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for Tuesday. The alert is for Wise, Denton, Collin, Hunt, Parker, Tarrant, Dallas, Rockwall, Kaufman, Hood, Johnson, Ellis and Henderson counties. “The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has issued an Ozone Action Day for the Dallas-Fort Worth area for Tuesday, June […]
Scientists have found that an item widely used in kitchens can absorb planet-heating carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, in what they hope will become a low-cost and efficient tool to slow climate change. Scientists from the University of Cambridge in England used activated charcoal — a sponge-like substance used in household water filters — and […]