Tag: pollution

“When I moved to Billtown, I worried most about whether fracking tainted groundwater. By the time I left the area, my biggest concern was whether the liberty granted to citizens to lease their land, or to otherwise act in ways that limits others’ access to environmental goods, taints democracy.”

Upon discovering that her mother had been a member of the group Women Strike For Peace (WSP), Heidi Hutner becomes obsessed with feminist nuclear history.

Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.

How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?

A reporter’s North Carolina hometown water supply contaminated millions of people, including her mother and two of her now-deceased brothers.

How lead contaminated the soil under East Chicago’s black and Latino communities.

A booming injection well industry is pumping toxic waste deep into the earth in Ohio’s rural towns.

A fish biologist makes a strong case against eating fish.

Millions of pounds of toxic chemicals are poisoning people and the environment today in practice called “open burning” which was banned over 30 years ago.

Louisiana serves as a terrifying example of what can become of a state that shortchanges science and environmental regulations to boost industry and infrastructure.

The 1969 oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara galvanized environmental activism, and Pacific Standard’s oral history is a great read.

A writer discusses the awful living conditions of China’s booming cities after seven years of living in the country for seven years, and visiting 21 of China’s 22 provinces: “A Beijing-based blogger who lived in Harbin in 2003 told me about leaving Blues after several drinks and flagging a taxi driver, whom he recognized. ‘The […]