To live in rental housing is to live in a residential limbo in which people are prevented both legally and economically from making their homes energy efficient.
New evidence obtained from federal documents reveals that a serious nuclear weapons accident occurred at a US Air Force base in North Africa, triggered a large-scale evacuation and resulted in US military personnel tracking plutonium across parts of Morocco.
When the EPA found traces of PCB in the milk of 1/3 of all nursing mothers surveyed in a 1975 US study, Congress moved quickly to ban the highly toxic substance. Now, the agency is quietly moving to deregulate PCB and some of its own scientists are deeply worried about the consequences.
Western land battles have a way of bringing out emotion in people. And the fight to stop seismic testing in Montana's Bob Marshall, Great Bear and Scapegoat wilderness areas has proven no different.
Next month, the US Navy is expected to release a fat pile of documents that will make the case for dumping more than 100 worn-out, radioactive submarines off the U.S. coasts.
Commentary: Next month, the US Navy is expected to release a fat pile of documents that will make the case for dumping more than 100 worn-out, radioactive submarines off the U.S. coasts.
Commentary: The Stamford-based Oceanic Society has sharply challenged a plan the Navy is considering to dispose of its obsolete nuclear-powered submarines by dumping them in the ocean.
U.S. scientists have started to replace explosive triggers in hundreds of nuclear warheads because they fear the mechanism may detonate prematurely, spewing radioactivity over wide areas.
