industry
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‘Climate Neutral’ products are now a thing. What’s behind the label?
The latest eco-label on the market, Climate Neutral Certified gets companies to offset 100 percent of their carbon.
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This company wants to make steel and cement with solar power. Here’s how.
Solar thermal technology might help mop up the billions of tons of carbon emissions associated with industrial heat production each year.
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Trump administration rolls back protections for migratory birds, drawing bipartisan condemnation
Under the new interpretation, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act forbids only intentional killing -- such as hunting or killing birds to get their feathers -- without a permit.
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Trump halted a study of coal’s health effects in Appalachia
This is bad news for people living near mountaintop coal removal sites.
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The 4 most scandalous charges against Volkswagen
New York's lawsuit paints the car company as one big pajama party of deception.
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The best comic about industry and ecosystems you’ll ever read
Stuart McMillen, who wrote and drew that cool comic about reindeer on St. Matthew Island, has a new comic comparing human industry to ecological development after the Mt. St. Helens eruption. I know, it’s no gay X-Men wedding, but it’s really interesting! I promise!
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Low doses of BPA are worse for you than high doses
The pesticide and plastics industry have a lot invested in the safety of chemicals like bisphenol A and atrazine. Such “endocrine-disrupting” chemicals mimic human hormones, and research has tied them to health problems like cancer and infertility. But these industries have always held up studies that look at exposure to huge doses of endocrine disruptors. […]
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Where do greenhouse gases come from?
This chart from the United Nations Environment Programme (click to embiggen) looks complicated, sort of like a traffic sign cross-bred with a banyan tree. But it basically just traces the path of greenhouse gases from polluting industries, through uses, out into the atmosphere. So you can tell at a glance, for instance, that energy industries […]
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A body of evidence for bodily harm from air pollution
An op-ed writer for the Washington Times demands the EPA "show him the bodies" of victims of power plant emissions. Sadly, that is all too easy to do.