by Marisa Endicott | May 13, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON — In California, six cities are ranked in the top 10 nationwide for the highest levels of “super pollutants,” even though the state has some of the nation’s strictest clean air regulations. How can this be? The perfect storm of...
by Marisa Endicott | May 2, 2016 | Environment
WASHINGTON — A West Texas toxic waste storage facility is seeking a license to accept and store spent nuclear reactor fuel, much of it highly radioactive. Waste Control Specialists, which operates a low-level nuclear waste dump in Andrews County, announced Thursday...
by Yimian Wu | Dec 15, 2015 | Environment
At the doorstep of the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a group of students was in the 44th day of sit-in protesting MIT’s October decision not to divest its interests in fossil fuel companies. The student activists are determined to keep the...
by Traci Badalucco | Nov 24, 2015 | Environment
WASHINGTON- In her disease ecology lab in College Station, Sarah Hamer, peering through a microscope, examines the newest addition to her expansive vector collection — an exotic tick the size of a poppy seed, typically only found in Central and South America. How it...
by Kira Boyd | Aug 25, 2015 | Environment
Washington—Dozens of young people from across the U.S. rallied in front of Secretary of State John Kerry’s Georgetown home Tuesday. They were protesting the Alberta Clipper pipeline expansion. Environmental activists believe the expansion is the result of...
by Ezra Kaplan | Aug 24, 2015 | Environment, National Security
WASHINGTON – Soldiers are being deployed to help fight wildfires in the West for the first time since 2006, the Pentagon announced Thursday. “The Army doesn’t have firefighters,” said spokesman Lt. Col. Joe Buccino. “But the Army has soldiers that can do things in...
