The Many Implications of Your Wasted Food
America's finally set to tackle its food-waste problem. That's a good thing, because the issue runs very, very deep.
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A Fracking Effective Film
A study finds the documentary Gasland has played a big role in the debate over hydraulic fracturing.
Turning Garbage Into Profit
Last year, Simi Valley Landfill entered what is becoming a fast-growing business of transforming fetid odors from decaying trash into fuel, a feat made possible by the miracles of modern chemistry and government subsidies.
Congress Is as Much to Blame for the Gold King Mine Spill as the EPA
This was a systemic failure, not an individual failure.
PCBs Were Banned Three Decades Ago, but They’re Still Hurting Marine Mammals
Don't drink the porpoise milk—it's contaminated.
Environmental Justice for Prisoners
Why doesn’t the Environmental Protection Agency count incarcerated populations in its impact statements?
Five Years on, We’ve Learned Nothing From the Largest Onshore Oil Spill in U.S. History
Five years ago, a pipeline spilled a million gallons of tar sands crude into a Michigan river—and we’re still cleaning it up.
Californians Are Coping With Water Shortages in Some Wacky and Smart (and Desperate) Ways
As summer heat compounds four years of drought, innovation has not yet run dry.
Economy, Not Natural Gas, Cut U.S. Emissions
A study finds that economic recession led to an 11-percent decline in carbon emissions, which could spell trouble for the future.
Waste Cooking Oil From Mexico City’s Restaurants Could Power the City’s Buses
Biodiesel from the waste cooking oil produced by the capital city's restaurants could help to power the cities public transit system, and reduce emissions in the process.