IMF: Carbon Emissions Exceed Global Warming Goals

by Hannah Webster | Oct 24, 2024 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON – Only nine years after the signing of the Paris Agreement — a landmark treaty promoting international cooperation to combat climate change  — global carbon emissions are out of line with Paris’ global warming targets, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...

Experts debate solutions to the single-use plastics crisis from bioplastics to improved recycling

by Khadija Ahmed and Kunjal Bastola | Oct 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON – “I’ll show you what I dug out of one [camel] skeleton,” said marine scientist Marcus Eriksen as he unearthed a roughly 40-pound mass that he estimated held 2,000 plastic bags.  Eriksen’s display came as he and other experts testified on potential...

Offshore Drilling Harms Communities in Gulf of Mexico, Warn Climate Scientists

by Samantha Aguilar | Jan 20, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Climate experts urged skeptical lawmakers Thursday to consider the environmental impact of new oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. “I want you all to remember that economic gain does not outweigh the devastation we are feeling right now,”...

Equity, accessibility top infrastructure priorities, Transportation Department says

by Mary Yang | Nov 9, 2021 | Living

WASHINGTON — Making public transit more accessible, cleaning up pollution in low-income neighborhoods and reuniting communities split by highways built through them are among the first priorities of the Biden administration’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill,...

EPA timeline on “forever chemicals” clean-up is too slow, lawmakers say

by Delaney Nelson | Oct 20, 2021 | Environment

WASHINGTON — Two days after the Environmental Protection Agency released a plan to address PFAS chemicals, lawmakers expressed concern Wednesday that the agency’s plan will leave communities across the country waiting too long for regulations. Testifying before the...