Baton Rouge's Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: Exxon Mobil
If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray's house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you see more than a dozen plumes of exhaust...
View ArticleEPA Building Named For Bill Clinton; He Says That's Fitting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwb-81C4I1A The environment may not come to mind when most people think about former President Bill Clinton, but on Wednesday he defended his legacy as the Environmental...
View ArticleNevada Wildfire Could Snuff Out A Rare Butterfly
A big wildfire in a mountain range just west of Las Vegas has put at risk the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, a rare species found in the U.S. The fire is dying down, but it may be weeks before...
View ArticleLa. Flood Board Sues Oil Industry Over Wetlands
Since the 1930s, Louisiana has lost roughly as much land as makes up the state of Delaware. "If you put the state of Delaware between New Orleans and the ocean, we wouldn't need any levees at all,"...
View ArticleSold! First Parcels Auctioned For Future Offshore Wind Farms
A Rhode Island company was the highest bidder in the federal government's first-ever auction for the right to build an offshore wind farm. After 11 rounds, Deepwater Wind outbid two other companies for...
View ArticleEPA Wants To Allow Continued Wastewater Dumping In Wyoming
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to let oil companies continue to dump polluted wastewater on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. This includes chemicals that companies add to the...
View ArticleN. America's Oldest Known Petroglyphs Discovered In Nevada
Ancient North Americans gouged elaborate rock art into a heap of big boulders northeast of Reno, Nev., more than 10,000 years ago and perhaps 15,000 years ago. That makes the carvings the oldest known...
View ArticleEPA Wants To Limit Greenhouse Gases From New Coal Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency's second stab at a proposal to set the first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants would make it impossible for companies to build the kind...
View ArticleSupreme Court To Weigh EPA Permits For Power Plant Emissions
The Supreme Court has agreed to review an Obama administration policy that requires new power plants and other big polluting facilities to apply for permits to emit greenhouse gases. To get these...
View ArticleWidespread Plague In Wildlife Threatens Western Ecosystems
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish. Most Americans' experience with plague is limited to history...
View ArticleIs Running Your Car On Rubbish The Future Of Fuels?
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed to scale back the amount of renewable fuels in our nation's gasoline supply,...
View ArticleSaving The Native Prairie — One Black-Footed Ferret At A Time
American pioneers saw the endless stretches of grassland of the Great Plains as a place to produce grain and beef for a growing country. But one casualty was the native prairie ecosystem and animals...
View ArticleA Scientist's New Job: Keeping The Polar Bears' Plight Public
The Endangered Species Act, which turns 40 on Saturday, helped bring back iconic species such as the wolf, grizzly bear and bald eagle, after hunting, trapping and pesticides almost wiped those animals...
View ArticleThe Big Impact Of A Little-Known Chemical In W.Va. Spill
The chemical that was found last week to be contaminating the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of West Virginians is used to clean coal. But very little is known about how toxic it is to people...
View ArticleDrinking Water Not Tested For Tens Of Thousands Of Chemicals
The fact that a second contaminant in West Virginia's drinking water eluded detection for nearly two weeks — despite intense testing of the water — reveals an important truth about how companies test...
View ArticleIndustry Challenges EPA's Greenhouse Gas Rules In High Court
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday about the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever greenhouse gas regulations for the biggest polluting facilities. The case focuses on a 3-year-old...
View ArticleColorado Becomes First State To Restrict Methane Emissions
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas from oil and gas production. The rules require companies to find and repair equipment leaks. The rules also will reduce air pollution that contributes to smog.
View ArticleInternational Ruling Puts Stop To Japan's 'Scientific' Whaling
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Whale lovers scored a major victory today. For almost two decades, Japanese whalers have been killing whales in the Antarctic Ocean. The Japanese government claimed it...
View ArticleHigh Court Ruling Revives Law Against Out-Of-State Pollution
Copyright 2017 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. Some communities are unlucky recipients of air pollution that blows in from...
View ArticleWhite House Report Says Climate Change Is Here And Now
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Climate change is not a future problem for faraway places; it's affecting Americans...
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