Environmental, Health and Safety News

Jetson Green :  A new Kickstarter campaign is aiming to raise funds to build a device, which will be capable of harvesting safe drinking wat...

Mark Halper reports at Fortune that DOE (US Dept of Energy) plans to sign a 10-year collaboration agreement with China to help that country ...

On Jan. 21, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s legislation on chemicals management — SB 5406 , An Act Relating to Using Chemical Action Plans to...

The U.S. health-care system was among the least efficient in the developed world two years before major changes from Obamacare  began to go ...

Roughly 90 percent of China's large cities did not meet national air quality standards last year, according to the country's  enviro...

Project Chrome, a massive layoff that IBM is pretending is not a massive layoff, is underway. At more than 100,000 people, it is projected t...

Mother Jones :  As the snow began to fall earlier this week in the lead up to the season's first major blizzard, New York Governor Andre...

Korean researchers have successfully developed sponge-like graphene aerogel electrode material using graphene and a polymer.  This is a grap...

Oil is the cheapest it has been relative to gold since 1988...   "cheap" is relative Charts: Bloomberg   Please continue reading f...

Gizmag  Last year, scientists from the University of Chicago found that a  probiotic therapy  using a common gut bacteria prevented sensitiz...

Huffington Post -  One in 5 American kids got food stamps in 2014, up from 1 in 8 before the recession. About 16 million kids relied on the ...

Yesterday, Apple  reported its financial results  for the quarter ending December 27, 2014. The company posted $18 billion in profit (on $74...

China's biggest reactor operator, China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN), will put another  five reactor units into operation this year...

Now a new report called Going Solar in America, prepared by the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center with the support of the U.S. D...

The Guardian:  BP  will face a maximum fine of $13.7bn under the Clean Water Act for its Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010, several billion l...

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysi...

Offshore wind would produce twice the number of jobs and twice the amount of energy as offshore drilling Offshore wind turbines in the Irish...

Greencarcongress reports researchers added a polysulfide to the polymer membranes  during their synthesis with the aim to reduce the cathode...

For much of the last decade, a team of researchers in Boston has eagerly exhumed and reburied dirt. It's part of a strategy to access an...

ACA submitted comments to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration responding to the agency’s call for input on its proposed J...

ACA , President Barack Obama signed into law H.R. 4007, the Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 20...

On Dec. 10, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final revisions to the Definition of Solid Waste (DSW) Rul...

(Reuters) - U.S. researchers have identified a new strain of a hog disease that has wiped out millions of baby pigs, a sign the virus will ...

Responsible for 400,000 deaths each year globally, air pollution has yet to be sufficiently addressed by the world's governments, rese...

Business Insider -  The newest version of the National Defense Authorization Act includes an amendment that would legalize the use of propag...

Center on Budget & Poicy Priorities -  Roughly 1 million of the nation's poorest people will be cut off SNAP (formerly known as the ...

Gizmag :  When we eat a meal, our body detects that we've consumed calories and responds by burning fat in order to make room for them. ...

GeekWire reports that Bill gates is certainly leading by example, appearing in a video  in which he  sips "a glass of delicious drinkin...

Starting Jan. 1, it will be illegal to throw food and food waste in the trash in Seattle, when a  new ban takes effect to increase rec...

A MIT researcher has made the bold claim that half of all children will be autistic by 2025 due to the toxicity from the glyphosate herb...

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) - US Senator Charles Schumer (D-New York) is trying to get the US Army Corps of Engineers to move a little quicker...

The state of New Mexico has fined federal energy regulators and private contractors for actions that led to a serious radiation leak in...

ThinkProgress -  A cooling system attached to a nuclear power plant in southwest Michigan was steadily spilling oil into Lake Michigan...

Proposed federal regulations could classify Omaha's air as smoggy enough on hot summer days to require action to better protect children...

Because of poor and unscientific way of maintenance, waste yards in Delhi have become massive, polluting and stinking mountains of garbage. ...