These are things that get to our children -- no matter where they are, whom they are with, and what they are doing. So I started doing research. And I was dumbfounded to find out what is legal.
Lisa P. Jackson | Posted 02.20.2012
We recently finalized the nation's first-ever Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for power plant emissions. Once MATS is fully implemented, it will prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks, and 3,100 emergency room visits across the nation.
Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 02.08.2012
The analysis shows total state-by-state and plant-by-plant emission levels for arsenic, chromium, mercury, cobalt, hydrochloric acid, nickel, and selenium, all of which are toxic pollutants.
Carl Safina | Posted 08.20.2011
When you realize coal's effects on health and our environment, coal is exceptionally costly. If these costs were included in the price of coal, cleaner energy technologies would become very competitive.
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.21.2011
Mercury is poisoning both our air and our water -- big time. Even if you don't live right near a coal plant, the wind drifts. There's too much at stake.
Javier Sierra | Posted 06.08.2011
The bill, or rather this legislative outrage, would keep the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from adopting guidelines to keep pesticide discharges out of our waterways. And to make matters worse, they called it "The Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act."
AP | Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
HOUSTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a proposal to regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants, including rules limit...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Climate and energy legislation is dead, coal ash regulations are delayed indefinitely, mountaintop removal mining continues, and the myth of "clean coal" is alive and well thanks to continuing praise by Obama and Biden.
AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- New federal rules are in the works to limit the amount of mercury and other harmful pollutants released from boilers and solid waste inc...
McClatchy | Renee Schoof | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON -- Many of America's coal-fired power plants lack widely available pollution controls for the highly toxic metal mercury, and mercury emiss...
chicagotribune.com | Michael Hawthorne | Posted 05.25.2011
Mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants is increasing in Illinois even as it declines nationwide, a troubling trend for the state because emiss...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2011
In the wake of several scary mercury stories -- reminders that the toxic metal is all around us like the revelation that it's in high fructose corn sy...
Dominique Browning | Posted 04.18.2012