Published by The New York Times Science & Environment As cruise companies head into their busiest season, they say they have ambitious plans to find cleaner sources of fuel. But critics say the progress is too slow. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/travel/cruise-sustainability-climate-change.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment New reservoirs designed to supply French farms with water in increasingly arid growing seasons have attracted opposition from environmentalists. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/world/europe/france-climate-change-water-wars.html
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment It’s Black Friday, the unofficial start of the year-end shopping season. We’ve got ideas for stuff that isn’t stuff. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/climate/climate-holiday-gift-guide.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael S. Regan announced that EPA’s Office of Environmental Education is now accepting applications for the 2023 President’s Environmental Youth Awards (PEYA) and Presidential Innovation Awards for Environmental Educators (PIAEE). “Students, educators, and young people have contributed so much […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment The return of smog season in India’s capital has again left residents asking why nothing has changed. The answer may be largely political. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/world/asia/india-china-air-pollution.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) BOSTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of six Healthy Communities Grants in Rhode Island out of 22 grants across New England. Today’s announcement represents a $191,000 investment for Rhode Island community projects that will help to make progress on crucial public health, […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and International Boundary and Water Commission, U.S. Section, (USIBWC) release the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final PEIS) for a set of proposed projects that comprise the Comprehensive Infrastructure Solution to mitigate transborder water pollution. The Final PEIS, prepared in […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Droughts, cyclones and floods have forced the people of Madagascar, a poor country in the southern Indian Ocean, to find new homes, new livelihoods and even new diets. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/world/africa/madagascar-climate-change-drought-cyclone.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has settled enforcement actions against two companies that violated state and federal clean air standards by allowing excessive idling of school buses at locations in four Massachusetts communities. The first settlement resolved EPA’s allegations that AA Transportation Co., Inc. […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) BOSTON (Nov. 16, 2022) – During the winter, many people seek to avoid high heating costs by turning to wood as a fuel. However, many wood heaters are inefficient and emit more pollutants into the air than heaters that burn oil or natural gas or those that […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) BOSTON (Nov. 10, 2022) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reached settlements with two New England companies engaged in the sales or installation of devices that tamper with emission controls on diesel vehicles. The first settlement, with Diesel Fuel Systems, Inc. of Bangor, Maine, resolved […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Part public housing for fish, part carbon-capture project, part art installation, Ximena Caminos’s project for Miami Beach, known as the ReefLine, aims to call attention to the challenges facing the city’s marine life. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/travel/reef-line-miami-beach.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (November 3, 2022) — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the National Coalition of 100 Black Women – Central Florida Chapter Inc., the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization, and the Miami -Dade County/Solid Waste Management to receive funding to conduct community air quality monitoring […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency selected three organizations to receive funding to conduct community air quality monitoring in Illinois. These grants are three of 132 air monitoring projects in 37 states that will receive $53.4 million from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act and American Rescue Plan […]
Published by The New York Times Science & Environment Plus the war in Ukraine may boost clean energy and investigations into Chinese outposts overseas. Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/briefing/us-economy-ukraine-asia.html
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) BOSTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) New England regional office today confirmed that New Englanders experienced a slight increase in the number of unhealthy air quality days this year, compared with 2021. Based on preliminary data collected between March and September 2022, there were 24 […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 10 has reached settlements with 22 residential home renovators in Idaho and Washington for violations of federal lead-based paint regulations. EPA’s compliance and enforcement program also conducted 137 inspections of home renovation contractors, the highest number of inspections the region has […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken an enforcement action to close two illegal large capacity cesspools (LCCs) at the Wailuku Professional Plaza in Hilo and one cesspool at the SKS Management LLC self-storage business in Kailua-Kona. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10, working with tribal air staff, has issued an air quality advisory and a ban on open burning on the Yakama Reservation due to the elevated pollution levels caused by regional fires. Weather forecasts indicate poor air quality will continue until […]
Publilshed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $1,000,000 in research grant funding to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to improve wastewater monitoring to rapidly detect the emergence and spread of infectious disease in the current COVID-19 pandemic, and to detect other pathogens that could cause […]