by Sean Kennedy | Apr 23, 2014 | Environment
Southwest of Chicago, 100 million gallons of sewage churn in the open air. Soupy and turbid, the brown muck comes through the Stickney filtration plant, the largest wastewater-treatment facility in the world, at a million gallons a minute. Few Chicagoans think about...
by Anna Bisaro | Apr 22, 2014 | Environment, Topics
WASHINGTON — The Cowboy and Indian Alliance kicked off a five-day protest Tuesday in front of the Capitol, demonstrating against the proposed expansion of the Keystone XL Pipeline. If President Barack Obama approves the plan, the pipeline will run through both...
by Anna Bisaro | Apr 17, 2014 | Environment, Topics
The National Mall is the most visited of all of the nation’s parks, but a lack of sufficient upkeep has left America’s front lawn looking like a dust bowl.The Trust for the National Mall is working in partnership with the National Park Service to put...
by Anna Bisaro | Apr 17, 2014 | Environment, Topics
The red areas of the map show where natural gas deposits are in the nation. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey) WASHINGTON – Lawmakers are pushing to give states more authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing, as debate continues over whether the natural gas...
by Mallory Black | Apr 15, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON — In an ongoing battle with the state of New York for tribal land rights, members of the Onondaga Nation Tuesday filed a petition with an international human rights commission against the federal government. Citing broken treaties with the United...
by Anna Bisaro | Apr 10, 2014 | Environment
WASHINGTON – With construction plans for a Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay not yet finalized, Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday urged the Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its opposition to the project. At a hearing on Wednesday about the proposed...
