Safety
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace: ‘A Safety Issue’
Adrian Russell occasionally elicits surprised expressions from clients when arriving at a jobsite for the first time. The construction program manager...
New Study Shows a Vicious Circle of Climate Change Building on Thickening Layers of Warm Ocean Water
Global warming is deepening blankets of warmer water that alter ocean currents, hinder absorption of carbon, intensify storms and disrupt biological c...
Climate Crisis: 5,000-year-old Penguin Graveyard Revealed By Retreating Antarctic Ice
In January 2016, Professor Steven Emslie of the University of North Carolina Wilmington made an unexpected discovery in Antarctica. On a rocky outcr...
Tree Rings Show Scale of Arctic Pollution is Worse Than Previously Thought
The largest-ever study of tree rings from Norilsk in the Russian Arctic has shown that the direct and indirect effects of industrial pollution in the ...
Udall Introduces Legislation to Prevent Corporations from Dumping Plastic Pellets Into Oceans and Waterways
Today, Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) introduced the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act to prohibit the discharge and pollution of pre-pro...
SAB Flags Concerns with EPA’s Proposed Changes to Clean Air Act Cost-Benefit Analysis
The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of the EPA announced a draft report critical of some of the Agency’s proposed changes to its cost-benefit anal...
Amazon Swells Climate Pledge Ranks with Siemens, Best Buy, and Others
Retailer Best Buy, engineering company McKinstry, and technology giant Siemens are among the latest crop of organisations to join The Climate Pledge i...
Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change
Fred Barrett thought he’d wait out Hurricane Harvey at his home in this town outside Houston, founded by his great-grandfather in 1889. He prepa...
Half a Million Lives in California would be Saved if Government Tackles Climate Crisis, House Report Says
California would avoid more than half a million premature deaths over the next 50 years if the US commits to climate goals to keep global warming belo...
356 Elephants Dropped Dead. Did This Bacteria Poison Them?
In May and June, conservationists discovered the carcasses of 356 elephants in Botswana’s Okavango Panhandle. Some of the animals appeared to have...
Avoid Common (and Costly) Hazardous Waste Violations
The EPA has assessed approximately $84 million in hazardous waste material violations in the last 5 years, according to the Agency’s ECHO database....
Our Plastic Planet
It’s always a challenge to find good news on the climate and environment beat. And we all desperately need a little more of the upbeat stuff rig...