The Environmental Protection Agency, the agency charged with protecting our families from pollution, is currently at a funding level more than 50% lower in real dollars than it was in the late 1970s. A lot has changed since then, especially when it comes to environmental...

This was written by Sarah Finnie Robinson: Environmental activism can be draining. And no wonder! Around the world, the scientists who track global warming are sounding urgent alarms. The severe weather they’ve warned would happen is in fact now happening. Impacts are lethal, disruptive, massively...

Last week, in San Francisco, California, EPA held a listening session on its proposed withdrawal of America’s Clean Power Plan, EPA’s ambitious 2016 plan to slash carbon dioxide pollution from power plants. Fifteen moms and fifteen children from Nevada and California joined voices with hundreds...

This was written by Lorraine Chow. The post originally posted on EcoWatch:  Dicamba—a drift-prone herbicide linked to millions of acres of off-target crop damage across in 17 states—destroys mostly everything in its path except the crops that are genetically engineered to resist it. It’s so damaging that several states, including Arkansas, Tennessee and...

A new report, Saving Energy, Saving Lives: The Health Impacts of Avoiding Power Plant Pollution with Energy Efficiency, was recently released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The primary takeaway is that a “15 percent reduction in annual electric consumption,” across the...