A baby in the womb has few defenses against industrial petrochemicals designed to kill. Unborn babies’ nascent metabolic and detox systems lack the means to neutralize toxic exposures. And the placenta, which doctors once thought protected the fetus from most harmful substances, in fact admits hundreds of toxic chemicals. That leaves the fetal brain, which […]| Inside Climate News
CHICAGO—A Silicon Valley startup broke ground Tuesday afternoon at a former steelworks site on the Southeast Side for what is planned as the nation’s first large-scale quantum computing facility. The company—called PsiQuantum—will be the anchor tenant for the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a multi-million-dollar effort by lawmakers, universities and the private sector to make […]| Inside Climate News
In rural Western Pennsylvania, communities routinely spray briny fluids on unpaved backroads to control dust in the warmer months and ice in the winter. Often, those liquids are drilling byproducts from nearby conventional oil and gas wells. That mostly comes courtesy of a loophole in state law that opponents say poses a risk to human […]| Inside Climate News
New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has sued Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell and several real estate companies over a site in Morris Plains where toxic waste remained from a now-shuttered pharmaceutical plant. The new civil complaint could lead to another big payout for the state. The DEP did not specify how much it […]| Inside Climate News
The utility’s environmental justice analysis lacks community health data, according to attorneys representing affected residents.| Inside Climate News
Kayaking on the river reveals signs of life that earlier had been stamped out. The city’s first open-water swim in nearly a century is planned there this month.| Inside Climate News
Along the Delaware River, the communities of Chester and Eddystone are facing the possibility of a new $7 billion liquified gas facility that will export Pennsylvania’s plentiful fracked gas.| Inside Climate News
Republican attorneys general accuse three of the world’s biggest asset managers of conspiring to depress U.S. coal output. It’s a first-of-its-kind and closely watched test of whether corporate alliances on climate efforts violate antitrust laws.| Inside Climate News
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The president has pledged to combat transnational drug organizations. Yet these groups make vast sums from environmental crimes, and his administration has gutted personnel and programs that targeted them, a new report shows.| Inside Climate News
A coalition of environmental groups is embroiled in a year-long fight with an Alliant Energy subsidiary over its discharge of groundwater possibly contaminated with coal combustion residuals.| Inside Climate News
A new report from the American Lung Association notes a drastic decline in air quality and raises health alarms. Climate change and Trump administration actions, experts warn, will worsen the trend.| Inside Climate News
