Environmental, Health and Safety News

Yale Environment 360 [feedly]  The current drought afflicting California is indeed historic, but not because of the low precipitation totals...

More than 48 percent of U.S. cancer deaths in 2011 among adults 35 and older can be linked to smoking, says a  study  by the  American Cance...

The Rural Blog Laws to legalize marijuana in the U.S. are inadvertently increasing production in Mexico of opium—which can be processed chem...

The Washington Post [feedly] No one was more pleased by the Food and Drug Administration's decision Tuesday to eliminate artificial tran...

​Last week, the French government announced plans to inject cash into Areva, the firm that constructs nuclear plants in the country. It is a...

Leaders from Michigan, Ohio and Ontario agreed this weekend to work "to reduce phosphorus in the western Lake Erie basin by 40 percent ...

"The  American Medical Association , citing growing concerns about monitoring and tracking long-term human health impacts caused by sha...

New statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that the average American has  packed on the pounds in the past 50 y...

Terrence N. Ingram for  SaukValley.com :  The world is learning how important honeybees are to our environment, and that our honeybees and o...

VAN HORN – For those Far West Texas residents concerned about the Trans Pecos Pipeline, here's something to make your hair stand on end:...

  CTV News [feedly]  According to recent research, scientists have found artificial sweeteners in bodies of water around the world, includin...

A new investigation has found that the world's largest private-sector coal company does not have adequate funds or insurance to clean up...

IFLScience:  This is known as the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO), and the transition between its positive and negative phases can b...

Nautilus:  ... Some experts, including the  eminently respectable IAEA , have suggested that TEPCO may have to simply dump the tritium-conta...

A 119-year-old Wisconsin company has introduced a water purification device that's roughly the size of a cellphone and can disinfect up ...

​LEED v4: Safer Chemistry for Building Construction Materials The U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC's) LEED rating systems for gr...

The House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a toxic chemical safety bill on a nearly unanimous vote on Wednesday, clearing the bill to ...

It's not a fantastic time to be a job hunter in America. The US economic "recovery" officially stalled in Q1 no matter what St...

Elon Musk says his companies don't need the estimated $4.9 billion they enjoy in government support, but the money will help them move f...

About 76 percent of electronic-waste workers in India suffer from respiratory ailments like breathing difficulties, irritation, coughing and...

Most areas of the U.S. could feed between 80 to 100 percent of the local population with food grown or raised within 50 miles, says a study ...

The incidence of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, has doubled in the U.S. in the last 30 years, the Centers for Disease Control ...

An 8-year-old boy falls into one of Mexico's most contaminated rivers. Eighteen days later, he's dead. Fusion investigates how facto...

As these NASA satellite  maps show , carbon monoxide levels have decreased appreciably in much of the world since 2000, thanks to Global car...

Alt Healthworks -  Costco is now projected to sell over $4 billion in organic products this year according to this article by takepart.com ,...

The Rural Blog :  More than 150 food companies, retailers and human and animal health stakeholders are joining the White House in an effort ...

Bloomberg Business [feedly] Scientists and economists including BP Plc's former chief executive officer, John Browne, are inviting gover...

In an international trial of 945 patients, treatment with the drugs ipilimumab and nivolumab stopped the cancer advancing for nearly a year ...

Fusion -  The City of Detroit began shutting off water access to residents behind on payments, with thousands at risk of losing access. Acco...

By the Los Angeles Times' reckoning,  Elon Musk's Tesla Motors, SolarCity, and SpaceX together have benefited from an estimated $4.9...

Cost of government: Federal regulation and intervention cost American consumers and businesses an estimated $1.88 trillion in 2014 in lost e...

Ironically, people think "politics" will clean up " fossil fuel industry"... brilliant deduction.  This would be like ha...

EchoWater project aims to improve water quality in the San Francisco Bay Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta EstuarySAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S....

JSOnline.com NewsWatch :  Wisconsin was the leading producer of frac sand in 2014, accounting for nearly half of the nation's production...

SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that the City and County of San Francisco will receive $400,000 in ...