Tag: Featured Living

  • FDA Bungles BPA Study Triggering Uproar Within Scientific Community

    Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists published a study in February finding that low-level exposure to the controversial plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) is virtually harmless—a conclusion that stirred an uproar within academic circles. [caption id="attachment_327827" align="alignnone" width="500"] Standing in contrast to the FDA findings are countless studies that found BPA—an estrogenic chemical—was linked to serious health…

  • France Stands Up to Monsanto, Bans Seed Giant’s GMO Corn

    On Saturday, France’s agriculture ministry temporarily banned the sale, use and cultivation of Monsanto’s MON 810 genetically engineered (GE) corn—the only variety that had been authorized in the European Union (EU). [caption id="attachment_326569" align="alignnone" width="500"] Genetically engineered corn is facing fierce resistant from both French environmentalists and country officials. Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] The French…

  • National Geographic Photojournalist Captures Images of Critical Pollution Problems Worldwide

    When U.S. photojournalist Peter Essick visited India and China for the first time, he was struck by how different life there was compared with American cities. But when he returned almost two decades later, he found the changes “staggering.” Bangalore now reminds him of the Silicon Valley, and Beijing and New Delhi are smoggier than…

  • Duke Energy Announces Coal Ash Spill Cleanup Will Take 2+ Years; Emails Show Collusion Between Regulators and NC Utility

    Duke Energy, North Carolina’s largest electric and gas supplier, announced Friday it would take the company more than two years to clean up February’s massive coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River with 60,000 tons of toxic sludge. [caption id="attachment_326282" align="alignnone" width="500"] Environmental regulators in North Carolina consulted Duke Energy last year…

  • Waterkeeper Alliance: Factory Farm Swine Operation Violates Clean Water Act

    The Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation and Waterkeeper Alliance issued a notice of intent on Friday to sue an industrial swine feeding operation in order to stop illegal discharges of swine waste into groundwater, wetlands and streams that flow to North Carolina’s Contentnea Creek and Neuse River watersheds. [caption id="attachment_326182" align="alignnone" width="500"] People living near the Stantonsburg Facility…