Dan Ross is a journalist whose work has appeared in Truthout, the Guardian, FairWarning, Newsweek, YES! Magazine, Salon, AlterNet, Vice, and a number of other publications.
Dan Ross is a journalist whose work has appeared in Truthout, the Guardian, FairWarning, Newsweek, YES! Magazine, Salon, AlterNet, Vice, and a number of other publications. He is based in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter: @1danross.
Poor countries face some of the greatest challenges from climate change—and apathy from their richest global cousins.
The federal agency providing oversight of the commercial nuclear sector is attempting to push through a rule change critics say could allow dangerous amounts of radioactive material to be disposed of in places like municipal landfills, with potentially serious consequences to human health and the environment.
Environmentalists say incinerating a vast stockpile of firefighting foam containing harmful PFAS is putting communities at risk.
Rainwater in some parts of the U.S. contains high enough levels of potentially toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to possibly affect human health and may, if found in drinking water, in some cases be high enough to trigger regulatory action.
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Critics of flashy ocean-cleaning technology say the use of such nets to sweep plastics from the seas can disrupt and damage sensitive aquatic ecosystems. Others characterize the project as, at best, an inefficient waste of tremendous resources, and at worst, a deliberate obfuscation of the ultimate fix to ocean plastic waste — cutting the problem off at the source.