Environment

After Maui Fires, Health Risks in the Air, Water and Buildings

Andrew J. Whelton / The Conversation Aug 14, 2023 An environmental engineer writes about the health hazard fallout of the Maui fires in the air, water, and infrastructure. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Dear Gov. Snyder: You Have to Go to Jail

By Michael Moore / Common Dreams Jan 8, 2016 Progressive activist, Oscar-winning filmmaker and Flint, Mich., native Michael Moore is calling for the arrest of Gov. Rick Snyder for his role in creating a situation in which the water supply for an entire community has been "effectively poisoned." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Canada Clears Way for Ecuadorean Case Against Chevron Over ‘Amazon Chernobyl’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 6, 2015 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that Ecuadorean villagers can go after Canadian assets of the U.S.-based oil company Chevron in one of the most bitterly contested environmental cases in history. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Arsenic in California Wine

Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant, Cagle Cartoons Mar 23, 2015 Dig deeper

400,000 Residents Affected in Toledo Water Emergency

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 3, 2014 Distribution centers and store shelves were emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply, citing contamination by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Freedom Water

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune Jan 21, 2014 Dig deeper

Lovely as a Tree

Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons Jun 2, 2013 Dig deeper

The Trillion-Gallon Loophole: Lax Rules for Drillers That Inject Pollutants Into the Earth

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica Sep 24, 2012 Injection wells have proliferated over the past 60 years, in large part because they are the cheapest, most expedient way to manage hundreds of billions of gallons of industrial waste generated in the U.S. each year. Yet the dangers of injection are well known: In accidents dating to the 1960s, toxic materials have bubbled up to the surface or escaped, contaminating aquifers that store supplies of drinking water. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

TVA Plans Six Nuclear Reactors in Eastern Tennessee

Staff / Truthdig Jun 19, 2011 Forget the international panic caused by Japan's damaged and still-dangerous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Officials of the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned electric utility corporation, have signaled their intent to build six "mini" nuclear reactors on a vacant riverside lot in eastern Tennessee. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Food Safety Bill Stalls

Staff / Truthdig Sep 18, 2010 If you need yet another example of how Washington just doesn't quite work, a bill that aims to curb food contamination has stalled despite having broad bipartisan support, plus backing from President Obama and industry and consumer groups, and the fact that the House passed its version of the legislation more than a year ago. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Peanut Corp. in Hot Water With Texas Health Officials

Staff / Truthdig Feb 13, 2009 Woe to Peanut Corporation of America: After running into trouble in Georgia in the recent salmonella outbreak, the peanut product manufacturer has now run afoul of Texas health authorities, who have ordered the company to recall all the products made in its Plainview plant. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )