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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this past Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting air, water and land pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Environmental and clean energy groups celebrated the announcement as long overdue, particularly for coal-burning power plants, which have saddled hundreds of communities across the country with dirty air and hundreds […] The post New EPA rules will force fossil fuel power plants to cut pollution appeared first on O...

For many years, Rose Sims had no idea what was going on inside a nondescript brick building on Florida Street a couple of miles from her modest one-story home on the southwestern side of town.

A Tyson Foods plant in Lancaster County is one of several Tyson plants that researchers say discharged pollutants by piping wastewater into waterways.

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The wet and windy Friday afternoon in April wasn’t ideal for a groundbreaking ceremony. But Buckley Mayor Takis Pifer was all smiles. “How big of a deal is natural gas? It’s huge,” he said. DTE Energy is planning […] The post A new natural gas project comes to northern Michigan, amid climate concerns appeared first on Michigan Advance.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a sweeping set of rules aimed at cutting air, water and land pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. Environmental and clean energy groups celebrated the announcement as long overdue, particularly for coal-burning power plants, which have saddled hundreds of communities across the country with dirty air and […] The post New EPA rules will force fossil fuel power plants to cut pollution appeared first on Indiana Capital C...

Two bills being considered by the California legislature can help mitigate the public health impacts of wildfires.

Some scientists argue that it’s time to rethink the blanket policy of letting blazes burn themselves out in northern wildernesses. Some scientists argue that it’s time to rethink the blanket policy of letting blazes burn themselves out in northern wildernesses.

An important step, but more is needed.

Welcome to The Topline, a weekly roundup of the big numbers driving the Minnesota news cycle, as well as the smaller ones that you might have missed. This week: bird flu in milk; soil erosion; expensive cigarettes; longevity; and visits to Minneapolis. A veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University collected 150 milk products from store […] The post The Topline: Bird flu in Midwestern milk appeared first on Minnesota Reformer.

After a dozen years unmasking lies and five years before that overseeing UCS’s media relations operation, I am leaving the organization.