RE: Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2018-014 Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler: The EPA’s proposal to drastically weaken Clean Water Act protections is unacceptable. The proposed rule would wipe out federal protection for streams that provide drinking water to tens of millions of people, and for wetlands that filter pollution and protect our communities from flooding. Please abandon…
Continue reading →Private jets like this one may carry only a handful of passengers—but their environmental footprint is massive. A single private jet can emit as much carbon dioxide in a year as 177 cars. When we think about pollution from flying, most of us picture big commercial planes taking off from crowded airports. But there’s a…
Continue reading →Evapotranspiration rises off the forest in the mountains of Ren’ai Township, Taiwan. Credit: Erica Gies And What Nature Is Trying to Tell Us Not long ago, wildfires tore through Los Angeles in the middle of winter. That caught a lot of people off guard. Winter fires used to be rare. But meteorologists weren’t surprised. They…
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