Environment

Denise Brinley is executive director at the Pennsylvania Governor's Office of Energy. The state produces "playbooks" to highlight ways old coal power plant sites could be redeveloped.

Finding New Opportunity For Old Coal-Fired Power Plant Sites

5:50pm May 23, 2019

by Jeff Brady

Coal-fired power plants keep closing, and communities around the country must decide what to do with those sites. Pennsylvania has a plan, aiming to create new jobs where old ones have been lost.

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Environment

Why Banning Plastic Grocery Bags Could Be A Bad Move

1:53pm May 23, 2019

Plastic bags are not biodegradable and can do great harms to wildlife. Cities and states across the country are banning plastic bags, but those bans may be having unintended consequences.

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Kenneth Feinberg has been appointed to oversee talks between Bayer's lawyers and plaintiffs' representatives for a court-mandated settlement over claims that the weedkiller Roundup caused cancer.

Lawyer Who Handled Sept. 11 Victims Fund To Mediate Talks Between Bayer, Plaintiffs

7:58pm May 22, 2019

by Vanessa Romo

Kenneth Feinberg has been tapped to facilitate talks between the company's lawyers and plaintiffs' representatives over the next two weeks.

Farmers have produced record or near-record soybean crops in recent years.

Collateral Damage Of The Trade War, Farmers Want Chinese Market Reopened

9:26am May 22, 2019

by Amy Mayer

American farmers rely heavily on selling their goods overseas. As the trade war heats up again, many Midwest soybean farmers have huge surpluses and are receiving government aid.

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City Of Greensboro Says Goodbye (For Now) To Glass Recycling

8:16am May 22, 2019

by David Ford

The city of Greensboro will no longer accept glass at its recycling facilities. The move comes as the demand for glass bottles has declined, and the cost to recycle them has skyrocketed.

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Floods That Hit The Midwest In March Continue To Affect The Farm Economy

5:48pm May 21, 2019

by Allison Mollenkamp

Midwest Farmers are still cleaning up from record floods in March. The work may delay or even prevent planting for some, which will have ripple effects throughout the U.S. agriculture sector.

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An analysis of air quality and childhood asthma in Los Angeles found that kids' health improved when smog declined.

When LA's Air Got Better, Kids' Asthma Cases Dropped

5:02pm May 21, 2019

by Richard Harris

New cases of asthma dropped dramatically in Los Angeles communities where air quality improved the most over 20 years. The results illustrate health benefits from pollution control.

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Environment

Environmental Mapping Tool Will 'Empower Communities' With More Data

1:37pm May 21, 2019

by Keri Brown

North Carolina environmental regulators are launching an online resource to give more information about pollution and health in the state.

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Wildlife Tourism And Other Dangers Facing Our Most Coveted Species

1:32pm May 21, 2019

What's behind those cute selfies with wild animals?

Studying active volcanoes can be dangerous. Which is why a group of 40 scientists and engineers from all over the world came together to simulate volcanic blasts. What they're learning will help them at a real eruption.

To Safely Study Volcanoes, Scientists Bring The Blast To Them

1:31pm May 21, 2019

Studying active volcanoes can be dangerous, which is why a group of scientists from around the world came together to simulate volcanic blasts. What they're learning will help them at a real eruption.