On a stormy Friday morning, the head of the Federal Highway Administration stood near a conference room window at the Georgia Port Authority’s headquarters in Garden City. As Shailen Bhatt described how more than $15 million in newly announced grants from his agency are aimed at improving air quality at and around the Port of […]
The “world’s largest” plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on Wednesday. “Mammoth” is the second commercial direct air capture plant opened by Swiss company Climeworks in the country, and is 10 times bigger than its predecessor, Orca, which started running in 2021. Direct […]
It’s a typical weekday, so waves of tractor-trailers serving the Port of Savannah stream along Bourne Avenue as incessantly as an army of ants. Only the traffic signals at Georgia Highway 21 succeed in interrupting the otherwise unceasing ebb and flow of big rigs carrying cargo containers. In some cases, the receptacles have just been […]
Andrea Vidaurre, a 29-year-old Peruvian American organizer from Southern California, has won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work protecting her predominantly Latino community from rampant air pollution. Vidaurre is one of six grassroots activists being awarded the $200,000 prize, which recognizes people from all six inhabited continents who are taking extraordinary actions to […]
Apr. 29—A Texas oil company has agreed to pay $24.5 million in a settlement with state regulators for excessive flaring that emitted massive pollutants posing threats to the environment and public health. The state Environment Department reached the agreement with Ameredev, based in Austin, Texas, after initially citing the company for $40.3 million in penalties […]
New Mexico’s biggest urban center and an oilfield county ranked among the top air-polluted areas in the U.S., according to a national study. The American Lung Association on April 24 released its annual “State of the Air” report identifying communities throughout the U.S. suffering from air pollution via ozone, or smog, and particulate matter pollution. […]
Nearly four in 10 people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution, a new report has found. Four of the five most polluted cities are in California, where wildfires, drought and extreme heat are driving the rise in hazardous air quality. More than 131 million people are exposed to harmful ozone […]
Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify, according to a new report from the American Lung Association. The organization’s report — its 25th annual analysis of the “State of […]
A fourth and penultimate round of talks on a United Nations treaty to combat plastic pollution will begin in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Tuesday. Representatives from more than 170 countries are expected to attend the negotiations, which are scheduled to run until next Monday. “This negotiation is pivotal,” said UN Environment Programme official Jyoti […]
German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke plans to travel to Ottawa on Saturday for UN talks on a global plastic pollution treaty, her ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday. On Sunday, Lemke is to hold talks with her Canadian counterpart Steven Guilbeault ahead of the fourth session of the UN’s intergovernmental negotiating committee on the issue. […]
Apr. 12—State officials asked a court in Santa Fe Friday to dismiss a lawsuit that contends they have violated a 1971 provision in the state constitution calling for the Legislature to control pollution and protect New Mexico’s “beautiful and healthful environment.” Attorneys for the Legislature and Governor’s Office contend if the court intervenes, as the […]
Last summer, many of us in New Jersey found ourselves retreating indoors as the skies filled with smoke from the Canadian wildfires. This smoke carried particulate matter (PM 2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and a whole host of other pollutants that are harmful to our health. Even though the smoke dissipated, millions of New Jersey residents […]