Critics are responding to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who has attributed recent major weather events and transportation crises to climate change, at least in part. On Sunday, Buttigieg appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” where he claimed the effects of climate change are to blame for recent incidents of severe airplane turbulence and extreme weather….
Rebecca Eldemire was killed nine years ago at the age of 21 in her apartment at the University of Miami, but family and friends are continuing her legacy with sustainability projects. Eldemire was killed in a murder-suicide by her ex-boyfriend, Larry E. Tipton, with whom she broke up the night before. She would have turned…
BALTIMORE. A NEW COMPLAINT TO THE EPA ALPHOTOS THAT POLLUTION FROM THE BRISCOE PLANT CONTRIBUTES TO UNEQUAL HEALTH RISKS TO PEOPLE LIVING IN NEARBY NEIGHBORHOODS. WOOD. WHEN YOU KNOW GOOD, YOU SHOULD DO BETTER. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF SPENDING ALL THIS MONEY TO BEAUTIFUL BALTIMORE? HAVE IT, YOU KNOW, ALLOWED IT TO AFFECT ALL…
ORINDA, Calif. — An effort to ban the use of all plastic bags in California grocery stores is moving forward. AB 2236 and SB 1053, an identical set of bills, passed each House on May 21 with bipartisan support. Legislators now have until the end of August to approve one of the draft laws. Only…
Two men have been convicted of using banned pesticides to kill migratory birds, according to court documents. Robert Yost, 52, of New Galilee and 27-year-old Jacob Reese were both sentenced to one year of probation and community service, and will have to pay a fine. According to the documents, Yost, of Yost Farms in Beaver…
The reduction in transport pollution in 2020 led to a “big bottom hit” that is estimated to have pushed the rate of global warming to double the long-term average, according to the research. Until 2020, global transportation used dirty, high-sulfur fuels that produced air pollution. The pollution particles blocked the sun’s rays and helped form…
Fossil fuel companies are forcing governments to compensate them for lost revenue in the transition to a low-carbon global economy and destroying the world’s ability to counter their harmful activities, former senior officials have warned. of the UN. Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, who was a two-time UN climate envoy, said she was…