climate change, warming, water, nature, fracking, pollution, bio-diversity
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer presented his budget to the State House Appropriations committee this past week, and was pointedly asked about the impact to the state from climate change. He couldn’t answer the question, and indeed was reluctant to state any opinion about climate change. According to StateImpactPA, when asked by…
More than 40,000 people braved thirty degree weather Sunday to urge President Obama to halt progress on the Keystone XL Pipeline progress, and to get serious about confronting climate change. The rally was organized by 350.org, the Sierra Club, and more than 150 other environmental and social justice groups, including the First Nations of Canada.…
Anti-Fracking activists gathered on Wednesday in Philadelphia’s Love Park to protest Act 13, signed by Pennsylvania Governor Corbett last February 14th and largely seen as a big valentine by the Republican controlled General Assembly to the natural gas industry in the state. The fractivists wanted to send their own valentine to Corbett this year. Act…
Senator Marco Rubio says that he believes that there is a credible argument to be made that climate change is not man-made, and more importantly, he said, there may be nothing government can or should do about it. He also said that the US shouldn’t pass any laws unless other big polluter countries, like China,…
Scientists at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have issued a report aimed at enhancing the protection of bees stating three commonly used pesticides in the neonicotinoid class of insecticides – clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam – pose an “acute risk” to bee populations and should not be used in crops attractive to bees. The EFSA…
Soot, the black carbon that results from burning fossil fuels and biomass, is now considered the world’s second most potent climate pollutant, after carbon dioxide. Black carbon is an emission from burned fuels, primarily diesel combustion, industry and residential coal and other solid fuels, and open burning of fields and forests. In an article, “Bounding…
Bill Davenhall got to thinking about the influence of all the places he’d lived and the air he’d breathed in various environments. And he wondered why all the carbon dioxide, particulate matter, benzene, ozone and other environmental hazards weren’t a part of his medical record. In fact, that information could have helped doctors predict his heart attack.
Mapping Toxic Release Inventory data tracked by the Environmental Protection Agency and merging it with a person’s “place history” – geo-medicine – gives people and their doctors crucial information concerning health risks.
The National Climate Assessment and Development Advisory Committee (NCADAC) released a draft report on the current state of climate change and its growing impacts on the United States. It’s not good news. In fact, perhaps it’s the worst news ever, even though it doesn’t basically say anything different than previous federal reports going back to…
