The Environmental Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

This type of waste can be hazardous to human health and the environment if not managed properly. When this waste is not disposed of properly, it can cause pollution of soil, water, and air. Additionally, it can pose health risks to humans and animals.

Waste 221

Waste Waste Health Carbon-negative 221

GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

Integration of EJ as a major component of social justice that substantially reduces income inequality, health care, housing and other quality of life disparities. What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? What are the characteristics of systemic environmental racism?

Pollution 464

Pollution Health Politics Policy 464

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens.

Health 28

Health Politics Pollution Policy 28

AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

What are the facts that document a systemic environmental justice problem in the United States? EPA also should prepare an integrated health risk assessment to provide a scientific basis for agency decision making. Analyses of environmental racism document a continuing pattern of powerlessness among lower-income minority citizens.

Pollution 28

Pollution Health Politics Policy 28

Grist

JUNE 29, 2022

One of his projects in South Carolina has been the documentation of how logging of wetland forests has led to an increase in flooding. It’s well known among ecologists that intact forests, with their extensive root systems and firm soil, absorb more water during storm events than logged forests. Christopher Ketchum / Grist.

Logging 93

Logging Carbon-neutral Climate change Biodiversity 93

Grist

JANUARY 23, 2020

After Toledo’s water crisis, Ohio went further, passing a law that prohibits farms in the western Lake Erie region from applying fertilizer on frozen or rain-saturated soil. But here, too, most fertilizer runoff efforts are voluntary — and exceptions undercut the state’s 2015 ban. It hasn’t done that, either. It barely tracks the issue.

Agriculture 119

Agriculture Pollution Soil Health 119