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2 stories tagged "environmental-health"

Investigations

A 16-Foot Fire Tornado Burned an Oil Slick With 40% Less Soot. Cleanup Crews Have Been Breathing the Same Old Smoke Since the Exxon Valdez.

A federally funded field trial used a controlled fire whirl to burn up to 95% of a crude oil pool while cutting soot by 40%, raising the question of why the standard in-situ burn, with its measured worker-lung cost, has gone unchallenged for thirty-five years.

Investigations

The Crunchy Mom and the MAHA Mom Were Fighting the Same War. The Pesticide Lobby Won Anyway.

For one strange year, the EWG hiking-boots crowd and the MAHA red-hat moms were fighting the same pesticide war. Then Trump invoked the Defense Production Act on behalf of Bayer, the final MAHA report quietly stopped mentioning glyphosate, and a coalition that was actually winning got stomped by a C