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The state’s largest ever settlement for “forever chemicals" holds DuPont and its spin-offs accountable for contamination at four sites and ensures taxpayers won't be left with the cleanup bill.
Efforts to pass laws and advance clean energy projects can significantly reduce emissions, and at a low cost.
The pilot will test parametric insurance, which pays out quickly after agreed-upon “triggers” – such as wind speeds or river heights – reach a certain level.
A new report from the EPA inspector general found the state’s health department saw evidence of elevated lead levels as early as 2015.
In Asheville, North Carolina, a housing crisis is colliding with a poorly understood health threat.
Exemption allows facilities using ethylene oxide, a gas linked to health problems in humans, two more years to meet federal standards.
New research indicates that the decline in smog particles from China’s air cleanups caused the recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific.
“No matter what happens we will stand, and we will fight, and we will keep pushing for solutions.”
The lawsuit says the companies knew the limitations of plastics recycling but promoted it anyway.
