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Last year marked the fourth year in a row that the Atlantic hurricane season saw above-average activity, and it doesn’t look like this year will provide any relief.
Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse, the EPA has issued what amounts to a license to pollute. Polluting industries claim that the disease has caused staff absences that make it difficult for them to comply with regulations, so the EPA has excused them from complying.
Under cover of the COVID-19 outbreak, President Trump is quietly promoting the use of crops genetically engineered for pesticide tolerance in wildlife refuges.
The new corona virus may have passed from animals to humans, but now there are concerns that it could pass from humans to endangered species of apes.
Chemist Cate Jenkins, who was a prominent whistleblower when on the staff of the EPA, has made public her criticism of how federal agencies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. She has written an email warning that the corona virus might be transmitted orally through food.
The Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety, or CARE Act, introduced into the U-S House of Representatives by Representative Elsa Royball-Allard, Democrat of California, would strengthen much-needed protections for children working in agriculture.
The novel corona virus that has caused a global pandemic is also having an enormous impact on the environment, according to new satellite data. As governments around the world have restricted people from moving, industry, air travel and vehicular traffic have ground to a halt, causing pollution levels to plummet, according to The New York Times.
Despite the growing public outcry about everything plastic, from its threats to marine life to its contamination of drinking water, plus the increasing calls for bans on single-use plastic, the fossil fuel industry is stepping up plastic production.
The growing demand for renewable energy led to record-setting growth in wind power capacity, as technology has made harnessing wind power increasingly efficient, and more wind farms have been completed and have joined the electrical grid.
Every year the Environmental Working Group ranks the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen produce in terms of toxic pesticide residues. The most pesticide-laden this year was a dried fruit, raisins, a popular children’s snack. In the U-S, children under age fifteen eat a total of some two hundred million pounds of raisins each year.
California’s utility Pacific Gas and Electric, or PG&E, has pleaded guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of accidentally starting the Camp Fire, which burned almost a 144,000 acres, killed eighty-five people, and incinerated the town of Paradise.
Robert Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corporation, the fifth-largest mining company in the U-S, once said that global warming was “hysterical global goofiness.” Recently Murray Energy, which was once the nation’s largest coal mining company, filed for bankruptcy.
