Environment

EPA Takes Action to Protect Consumers from Harmful Chemicals that can Cause Reproductive and Developmental Harm

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to protect the public from seven ethylene glycol ethers or glymes chemicals that can cause health effects including birth defects and blood toxicity.

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550+ Citizens Join Conservation Groups In Call For TVA To Retire Shawnee Coal Units

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Would you rather have $250 million invested in this 60 year-old coal plant or new, clean...

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NSIDC science at AGU highlights sea ice, buried lakes in Greenland, and avalanche mapping

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A frozen meltwater lake is seen along the northeast Greenland coast from aboard the NASA P-3B...

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At Lima climate talks, UN launches new coalition to promote renewable energy

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A massive, over 7-metre-high balloon, representing one tonne of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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