An Environmental and Public Health Disaster Awaits—If USDA Gives Organic Label to Hydroponics
A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.
Read more...A big cause for pause about a planned change in what the USDA considers “organic” to mean.
Read more...Some relatively low-cost measures can reduce the toll of hurricanes….but do they go far enough?
Read more...Efforts to repair the road system in Puerto Rico seem grossly incommensurate to the scope and degree of the damage.
Read more...Fossil fuel industry promotes the idea that elections are not a good use of public funds.
Read more...A study of DuPont’s failure to clean up emissions of a toxic chemical shows pollution is economical rational. Too bad the remedies are lame.
Read more...PG&E, tree-trimming, and profit.
Read more...Big ag is moving into cannabis farming, which means less sustainable practices. Can “little pot” find a way to survive?
Read more...A short overview of the importance of tax breaks to oil company profits.
Read more...Trump’s latest giveaway: a massive subsidy to coal and nuclear plant operators via unnecessary and costly electricity backup requirements.
Read more...Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
Read more...Puerto Rico’s austerity under PROMESA begets power failure begets water contamination and disease
Read more...Most of the world’s biggest cities are coastal cities. What happens when people start realizing they are threatened?
Read more...Forbes thinks that emerging markets consumers might save the planet from fast fashion folly. Ahem. I’m not so sure.
Read more...Some California Republican legislators are breaking ranks and beginning to embrace modest pro-regulatory positions on climate change.
Read more...Only someone profoundly pessimistic would bet against the ability of American ingenuity to repower our economy.
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