Fewer than one in 10 Pennsylvania schools took action after finding out that their drinking water supply had unsafe levels of lead. The shocking statistic is part of a larger study by the Pittsburgh-based health advocacy nonprofit Women for a Healthy Environment. The study analyzed how schools addressed health concerns after...

Environmentalists have led massive protests in opposition to pipeline development throughout the country, including the Dakota Access pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline. These protests have led to many misconceptions about pipelines themselves.  Pipelines are one actually of the safest ways to transport liquid in the United States. Pipelines are significantly...

Cotton tote bags have long been considered the eco-friendly alternative to plastic shopping bags. But as with many so-called “eco-friendly alternatives,” cotton bags may be worse than the problem they claim to solve. According to a 2018 study from the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, an organic cotton bag...

The EPA requires that the public be notified when their water becomes unsafe, but there is no nationwide standard operating procedure for how those notifications are made. In fact, there is no standard operating procedure in most states. Some cities have less-than-formal methods, too.  When a water main breaks or E....

Hippie environmentalists recently made a sobering realization: Growing weed is not carbon neutral. Not at all.  Recreational marijuana is some version of legal in several states, which has resulted in the mass production of cannabis. Unlike corn or tobacco, weed is not grown with sunshine and rain from Mother Earth. Instead,...

Water boxed in cartons is the latest environmentalist fad, but it might not even help the planet.  Cartons are incredibly difficult to recycle. To make a carton hold liquids, the paper must be lined with glued layers of plastic and aluminum. These layers are expensive to separate and most recycled cartons...

Wind power, like solar, is often commended as a green alternative. While wind may be a carbon-neutral source of energy, that doesn’t mean it is harmless. The batteries needed to store the energy harvested by the turbines require rare earth minerals that are often harvested using toxic methods. Wind turbines...

The toxic water in Flint, Michigan, might be the most well-known water catastrophe in the United States, but it is not the only one.  Newark, New Jersey, has been struggling through a lead contamination issue very similar to the one that took place in Flint. Many families in both cities still...

The Philippines finally shut out anti-science critics and approved the planting of “golden rice,” a vitamin-enriched rice that could help save nutritionally deficient children. As many as one in five children in the Philippines suffer from vitamin A deficiency (VAD). VAD is a brutal deficiency that can leave children blind and...

Aluminum is quickly becoming a top trend in single-use packaging, but it isn’t any better for the environment than plastic. Aluminum can be recycled indefinitely, but the benefits stop there--assuming it is even recycled at all (cans are one of the most littered items in America, according to Keep America Beautiful)....