For COP21, Plume Labs Unveils Live Air Pollution Map App
PARIS, FRANCE As the UN Summit on Climate Change ramps up in Paris, Plume Labs, a maker of environmental software for health and well being, announced today the launch of its World Air Map,...
Tagged: Pollution
Issues having to do with pollution, air pollution, water pollution, soil contamination, waste, acid rain, toxins, etc.
BP Could Face Largest Fine in History for Deepwater Horizon Spill
A U.S. judge ruled Thursday that BP PLC (BP) faces a maximum fine of $13.7 billon for causing the largest offshore oil spill in U. S. history in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. District...
Germany’s War On Plastic Bags (Video)
In an extraordinarily visual protest, thousands of Germans demonstrated in Berlin against using plastic bags. The demonstrators tied 30,000 plastic bags they collected to make a chain nearly five and ½ miles (9 kilometers)...
ExxonMobil to Pay $1.4 Million For Torbert, Louisiana Oil Spill
WASHINGTON, D.C. — ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (ExxonMobil) has agreed to pay a civil penalty for an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act stemming from a 2012 crude oil spill from ExxonMobil’s “North Line”...
Why Have N.C. Environmental Regulators Sided With Duke Energy In A Coal Ash Lawsuit?
Get this — according to Bloomberg, North Carolina’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) (which includes the Environmental Management Commission) just joined infamous Duke Energy’s April 3 appeal last Monday to avoid a...
European Seas Face Grave Danger
EU – A recent assessment by the European Environment Agency (EEA) showed that the continuous changes related to over-exploitation of natural resources, causing biodiversity loss, climate change and other human activities that continue to...
Paris Wilts Under a Cloud of Pollution
Paris, France – The City of Light’s shine has dimmed as an early spring has caused an unprecedented hazy cloud of pollution to descend on the hapless Parisians. On Friday, pollution levels hit 180...
International Dark Sky Week
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that...
World’s Top 10 Most Polluted Places
Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross Switzerland have released the 2013 report of the world’s polluted places: the result of 2,000 risk assessments at contaminated sites in 49 countries. The horrible top ten list covers a...
