Tag: News
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Obama’s Climate Change Agenda Faces Supreme Court Hearing
[caption id="attachment_322883" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] By Vickie Patton Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a case challenging EPA’s interpretation that the Clean Air Act permit program requiring new and rebuilt industrial sources to deploy leading pollution control technology for each pollutant subject to regulation under the Act applies to greenhouse…
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Long-Overdue EPA Pesticide Regulations Fail to Fully Protect Farmworkers
By Ronnie Greene Ushering in what it called “milestone” changes to better protect the nation’s farmworkers from pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lask week proposed a slate of updates to its agricultural Worker Protection Standard. The enhanced protections come 22 years after the EPA last revised the rules intended to safeguard the nation’s 2 million…
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Documentary Spotlight: Antarctica, A Year on Ice
One of my favorite events of the year is almost here—the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) from March 19 to March 30 at Tower City Cinemas. There are eight eco-films this year, in CIFF’s It’s Easy Being Green sidebar sponsored by Great Lakes Brewing Company, bringing awareness and support to the environmental movement working to save our planet. I’ll feature…
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Kasich Joins Troubled GOP Governor Group for Involvement in ‘FrackGate’
EcoWatch reported last weekend that a public documents request revealed a plan by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to work with “allied” groups to promote fracking in state parks. On Feb. 17, EcoWatch reported that new evidence was released showing Ohio Gov. Kasich’s involvement in the communications plan that detailed how the ODNR would “marginalize” opponents of…
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In Wake of Elk River Chemical Spill West Virginians Turn to Rainwater Harvesting
By Molly Rusk Some residents of the Kanawha Valley in West Virginia lost access to clean drinking water on Jan. 9, when a coal-processing facility spilled roughly 10,000 gallons of crude MCHM—a chemical used to treat coal—into the Elk River and surrounding land. The spill affected the water supply for more than 300,000 people. The…