Environment

Federal Court Prohibits Use Of BP Oil Spill Restoration Funds To Build Beach Hotel

Tuesday, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama prohibited Alabama and federal officials from allocating $58.5 million dollars of BP drilling disaster “natural resource restoration” funds to construct a hotel along an...

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EPA’s Latest Sampling Results Confirm Lead-Removal Filters are Working in Flint

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday released additional sampling results showing that lead-removal filters are working as expected in Flint homes with high lead levels, confirming results released earlier. The agency continues to...

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Activists set up basecamp at Mammut HQ to demand end of toxic chemical use

More than 15 Greenpeace activists from six countries have Wednesday installed a conference table on the facade of Mammut’s headquarters in Seon, Switzerland to invite CEO, Rolf Schmid, to negotiate a commitment to eliminate all hazardous chemicals...

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UNICEF: Malnutrition mounts as El Niño takes hold

Almost one million children are in need of treatment for severe acute malnutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa, UNICEF said on February 16. Two years of erratic rain and drought have combined with one of the most powerful El Niño events in 50 years...

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