by EarthDesk | Jul 30, 2013 | Animal Welfare, General, Health, Law & Policy, Pollution
By Wendee Nicole Editor’s Note: In this post, Wendee Nicole takes us to the families that suffer in the shadows of North Carolina CAFOs. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations have had devastating consequences for the environment and for animals (see EarthDesk...
by EarthDesk | Jul 28, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
EarthDesk regularly follows xkcd.com, the webcomic offspring of the fertile mind of Randall Munroe Here is more about the illusive Randall in The New York Times.
by EarthDesk | Jul 26, 2013 | Health, International, Law & Policy, Pollution, Sustainability, Water
By John Oldfield Editor’s Note: John Oldfield, CEO of WASH Advocates, reminds us universal safe drinking water requires the political will of leaders globally, and political will is a function of an expectant and educated citizenry. That is not as obvious as it...
by John Cronin | Jul 25, 2013 | Corporate Responsibility, Energy, Pollution, Water
A blowout and fire that began Tuesday at 8:45 AM at a gas well in the Gulf of Mexico, 55 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 154 feet of water, has been contained, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), an arm of the US Department of...
by John Cronin | Jul 24, 2013 | Climate Change, Energy, Pollution, Sustainability, Technology
Over at Dot Earth, my colleague Andrew Revkin has been carefully walking his readers through the nuclear power briar patch ever growing inside the American environmental movement. Looming large is Dr. James Hansen, former NASA climate scientist who used his...
by EarthDesk | Jul 22, 2013 | Animal Welfare, Corporate Responsibility
By Stephen Wells Editor’s Note: Today the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) filed suit to overturn Utah’s Ag Gag law. In his April 27 EarthDesk post, contributor David Cassuto wrote about the Draconian...
by EarthDesk | Jul 21, 2013 | EarthDesk Sunday
Joel Pett has been a cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader since 1984 and USA Today since 2002. Among his many awards are the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning and the 1999 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. But one of his favorite honors is the...
by John Cronin | Jul 20, 2013 | Climate Change, Law & Policy
On July 18, Gina McCarthy was confirmed as EPA Administrator by the United States Senate, 4 1/2 months after she was nominated by President Barak Obama. The Hill described the vote: The Senate voted 59-40 on Thursday to confirm the controversial nomination of Gina...
by John Cronin | Jul 19, 2013 | Climate Change, Health, Pollution
As heat and humidity soar, and air quality declines, our friends at National Geographic suggest we get in our cars and Drive! From the Pacific Coast Highway to the shores of Lake Michigan to the Cherohala Skyway of Tennessee, Nat Geo’s Ultimate Road Trips page...