The US state of California will be adding the widely used herbicide glyphosate — the so-called “active ingredient” in Monsanto’s most popular weedkiller, Roundup — to its official list of chemicals that are known to cause cancer, according to recent reports.
For years, the conventional wisdom has been that pollution from diesel engines was far worse than from gasoline engines for two reasons: First, diesel exhaust fumes are known to contain nitrous oxide emissions. Second, they also contain particulates, small molecules that are too small to see. Both are believed to cause serious damage to human lungs.
Those who work with common chemical disinfectants, deodorizers, sanitizers, and sterilizers are roughly 65% more likely to develop thyroid cancer than people who don’t, according to new research from Yale University.
There’s a strong association between the diagnosis of acute lymphocytic leukemia amongst children and levels of nearby oil and natural gas development, new research from the Colorado School of Public Health at CU Anschutz has found.
Well, it’s a pretty philosophical topic when you get down to it — we’re all going to die, it’s up for debate whether we have any control over when or how we die, and it’s up for debate if dying prematurely is a negative thing or doesn’t matter at all. But, basically, I assume what most people assume — we should do what we can to avoid “premature” death and we should do what we can to not cause other people and animals premature death.
The cards are on the table. Based on Donald Trump’s flip-flopping over the years — er, over a matter of seconds even — it was not 100% clear what he’d be doing as president.
I’ll let you in on a little secret: we’re electric car fans here on CleanTechnica. I know, you’d never know it if I didn’t tell you. Somehow, though, we’ve never written an article on the many reasons your next car should be electric. So, here’s a piece on 30 reasons that come to my … [continued]
Central California, already painfully stressed by the worst drought in 50 years (which the US Drought Monitor designates as “extreme or exceptional drought,” the most serious category on the agency’s five-level scale), has another problem with its water supply. Aquifers that supply drinking and irrigation water have recently had to … [continued]
Originally published on Ecopreneurist. The dirty little tricks that big energy companies use to maintain their stranglehold over their customers, while continuing to pollute the very regions the serve, have now taken on a new twist. Duke Energy, whose operations were responsible for spilling 82,000 tons of coal ash into … [continued]
by Peter Lehner of the NRDC Today, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) confirmed what we’ve long suspected: the pollution from dirty diesel engines causes cancer. “The scientific evidence was compelling and the working group’s conclusion was unanimous: Diesel engine exhaust causes lung cancer in humans,” Christopher Portier, chairman … [continued]
