Sierra Club Missouri River Network

03/28/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/epa-offers-industrial-polluters-a-way-to-avoid-rules-on-mercury-arsenic-and-other-toxic-chemicals/ar-AA1BNwHH?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ASTS&cvid=a0f247ed341a4abb86322cde2f2e208c&ei=19

WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of a push to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, the Trump administration is offering coal-fired power plants and other industrial polluters a chance for exemptions from requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene. T...

10/06/2024

Thanks to James Traeger for this food for thought.
https://therevelator.org/botanists-endangered?fbclid=IwY2xjawFvgAhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHf2eBxsUN4ZroZuaLleRcbHjucc7of1ZTGEwXWkVVjJrAO9ALoGzj7eaxg_aem_uF4Q24LGe54BudQN3uoM8g

As funding drops and institutions change, the study of plants appears to be withering on the vine. That's letting critical skills go extinct.

10/06/2024

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1045373574039863&set=a.125648826012347

Andrea Kowch (born 1986)
In The Distance, 2022

06/27/2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/inside-the-right-wing-campaign-to-end-protections-for-endangered-species/ar-BB1oZV6s?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=120c41b6ded642d8c3bcf6222978f82f&ei=11

Leonard Leo's dark money hubs have funneled over $2 million to climate denial groups working to gut the Endangered Species Act

05/21/2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/controversial-oil-and-gas-company-files-for-chapter-11-bankruptcy/ar-BB1mK5aH?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=ASTS&cvid=765f76d86385412e9498901690d31270&ei=5

Consolidation in the oil and natural gas sector has led to financial distress in the oil and gas services industry.

04/23/2024

YES, this...
article has a link to Nature chem page with free pdf download of article.

Scientists from NUS and the Singapore Center for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have uncovered one of nature's most potent tools in an arsenal to combat today's agricultural challenges: agro-microbials—or agro-chemicals of natural origin—that can enhance the synergy between cro...

02/07/2024

https://phys.org/news/2023-12-cancer-causing-metals-chesapeake-bay-tributary.html

A recent study in Environmental Pollution unveils alarming discoveries: Researchers have identified cancer-causing contaminants in sediments and fish in a Chesapeake Bay tributary near a coal ash landfill.

01/10/2024

The number of U.S. properties that have flooded numerous times continues to rise, according to federal data, in the latest sign of the nation’s mounting flood risk.

01/10/2024

With thanks to Carolyn Pufalt.

The number of U.S. properties that have flooded numerous times continues to rise, according to federal data, in the latest sign of the nation’s mounting flood risk.

12/29/2023

Sooo, 2024 is almost here. Grow Native! Be Wild.

Donnie Bryan gives a presentation at a Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter meeting on using native plants to attract pollinators and wildlife.