Category: Environmental

Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power

Our Score Focus on climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as reliable, carbon-free source of energy Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in…

We Should be Very, Very Scared

Our Score Monday, 23 May 2016 00:00 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | Report Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return (Photo: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center; Edited: LW / TO) A recent trip up Washington State’s…

Mold In Prisons

Our Score Mold-Infested Prisons Sicken Guards and Prisoners Spencer Woodman May 28 2016, 5:46 a.m. During much of her three years awaiting trial in New York’s Rikers Island jail, Candie Hailey was locked in a solitary confinement cell ventilated by a…

Whales can’t eat plastic

Our Score A necropsy on dead sperm whales that washed up on the shore of Germany earlier this year revealed the ill-fated Giants had an array of plastics in their stomachs, according to researchers. Four of the 13 whales that washed…