Officials praised the expansion as a step toward energy reliability and a stronger economy, but advocates worry air pollution could increase in Atlanta.
Southeastern Ohio has a serious problem underground with fracking waste injection. That problem is now reaching the surface and threatening our drinking water, writes Marietta College petroleum geologist David L. Jeffery, Ph.D.
Some 98 percent of active climate scientists say climate change is happening, and is human-caused. Nonetheless, a new study shows the number of climate-change skeptics in Germany has increased. Why is that?
Prolonged droughts have exposed the vulnerability of Zambia and Zimbabwe’s hydropower-dependent electricity systems, triggering severe power shortages and renewing interest in coal.
“What seems to be important,” wrote the British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of fuel is responsible.”
The project is under investigation for allegedly beginning construction before obtaining required air permits as regulators consider whether privately operated power plants can legally serve data centers.
Synthetic pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers are contributing not only to human health risks but also to climate change, according to pediatrician Lee Evslin.
The Trump administration is propping up the aging coal fleet despite the financial and environmental costs — and also making far-fetched plans to build new coal plants.
A proposed expansion of an Elk Valley Resources’ coal mine in southeast British Columbia is moving through the environmental assessment process despite concerns over pollution.
