Bad Chemistry
European Countries Announce Plan to Phase Out Toxic PFAS Chemicals by 2030
A strategy report submitted to the European Commission maps out a comprehensive attack on PFAS chemicals, which have contaminated water around the world.
Environment
Climate Crimes
Rich Nations, After Driving Climate Disaster, Block All Progress at U.N. Talks
“They've effectively been lighting the house on fire as they plan to walk out the door,” said an advocate about Trump’s pledge to leave the Paris Agreement.
New Chemical Complex Would Displace Suspected Slave Burial Ground in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”
The planned Formosa chemical complex, which is one mile from a school, would release more than 800 tons of hazardous air pollutants per year.
How the Fossil Fuel Industry Is Attempting to Buy the Global Youth Climate Movement
Corporations and politicians are increasingly using young people to portray themselves as serious about climate action.
Environmental Activists Target Exxon’s Lead Attorney in Climate Liability Case, a Prominent Democratic Donor
Ted Wells Jr., who defended Exxon against a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general, has given half a million dollars to Democrats in recent decades.
Pipeline Giant Energy Transfer and Its Private Security Contractors Face Bribery Charges in Pennsylvania
In a “buy-a-badge scheme,” Energy Transfer and the security firm TigerSwan allegedly paid elected constables to guard the Mariner East 2 pipeline.
Climate Crimes
Under Left- and Right-Wing Leaders, the Amazon Has Burned. Can Latin America Reject Oil, Ranching, and Mining?
The social gains of the pink tide were real, and striking. But they were ephemeral, and the cost to the environment was high.
Did an American Billionaire Philanthropist Play a Role in the Imprisonment of Iranian Environmentalists?
Thomas Kaplan funds both a big-cat charity and an anti-Iran advocacy group. These worlds collided when eight Iranian environmentalists were arrested.
Iraqi Children Born Near U.S. Military Base Show Elevated Rates of “Serious Congenital Deformities,” Study Finds
“The war has spread so much radiation here that, unless it is cleaned up, generations of Iraqis will continue to be affected.”
Climate Crimes
Emboldened by Bolsonaro, Land-Hungry Ranchers Are Destroying a Pioneering Project to Help the Poor and Save the Amazon
American Catholic nun Dorothy Stang died defending a sustainable development model for the Amazon. Can her legacy survive in Bolsonaro’s Brazil?