Environment

New York City’s lawsuit for climate damages raises the prospect that oil companies may have to pay for rising sea levels and extreme weather.

The Bakken system pipelines racked up at least eight leaks in 2017. Mariner East 2 and Rover saw drilling fluid spills before fuel even entered the lines.

Science is a battle zone because it is revealing again and again that pro-corporate business as usual leads to a species-threatening catastrophe.

Danielle Oxendine Molliver, who the state brought on to consult with tribes about Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 pipeline, resigned citing lack of transparency.

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt also named an unqualified banker who contributed to his campaigns to lead the Superfund Task Force.

First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.

Although PFOA was originally developed and manufactured in the United States, it’s not just an American problem.

Chemical companies are using a trade secrets loophole to withhold the health effects of new products, preventing scientists from identifying emerging environmental threats.

While touting GenX as being a safe replacement for PFOA, DuPont filed 16 reports of “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment” about its new chemical.

The EPA has yet to regulate the toxic PFCs found in fire-suppressing foam, Teflon, and other products that have contaminated our drinking water.