I once accompanied my husband to a Steely Dan concert for the same reason
I once accompanied my husband to a Steely Dan concert for the same reason
NCDEQ's Enviro Mgmt Commission is debating groundwater regs for 4 pesticides & one pro-pesticide member is unhappy. He threw up his hands and said, "If we're going to these 4, why not all 16K?"
Why yes, IMO we should regulate all 16k.
The EPA’s latest enforcement and compliance report touts its crackdown on environmental crimes under the current administration, despite 75% of criminal cases in the report closing last fiscal year, before Trump took office.
Granted, since the world's gone to shit I've lowered my expectations for contentment but drinking a glass of wine at a bar and watching the Bob Ross channel is somehow ... blissful?
The FBI visited a climate activist’s home. Is it part of a broader investigation to label environmental advocacy as domestic terrorism?
Realizing I had been confessing my sins to a pedophile
A chocolate-colored ridge ... rested in a field and close to the road. A cold downpour had turned the air clammy. It smelled like a rancid potpourri seeping through the truck windows, singeing the occupants’ sinuses and glomming onto their raincoats.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0903202...
My childhood fears of quicksand were not in vain
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...
New federal workforce figures show the radical change at EPA in the first year of the Trump administration Among the 4,000 employees who departed in 2025 were scientists responsible for breakthroughs in testing for health risks of biopersistent chemicals.
Durham city official says they told NCDEQ about odor complaints from Brenntag but have no idea what came of it.
Also the fecal bacteria in the stream is likely from McDougald Terrace, where “the entire infrastructure is crumbling” underground including old leaking sewer pipes
Former DJ here, can confirm this is annoying, as well as the 45rpm 12” that is not clearly labeled
And don't know that when they say "resistance is futile," honorable journalists will double down. BTW, similar tactics to spam emails, create fear and a sense of urgency. I call BS
If it's wrong, I don't wanna be right
More leaking barrels of chemicals, more toxics entering a stream behind Burton Elementary School. My latest on the Brenntag saga: insideclimatenews.org/news/0403202...
Chances are your electricity bills are way up. Here’s a look at how a typical bill has changed in each state during Trump’s first full year in office.
The IRS gave the largest U.S. LNG producer and exporter a $370 million refund for ‘alternative fuel’ tax credits that critics say it never should have received.
I know I shouldn’t engage w these texts but I always respond, “F**k off”
The panic attacks I’ve been intermittently experiencing over the past 24 hours? I’d say they are a normal response to the state of the world
My neighbor and friend died of cervical cancer. I was her main caregiver bc she didn’t have family around. It’s a horrible way to die.
When will Barron Trump enlist in the Marines and lay down his life for his country?
I'll wait.
“Their future is now in doubt.” Decades of commercial whaling once drove whales to the point of near-extinction in the 19th and 20th century—now, climate change is threatening the future of the population.
After 3.5 yrs of opposition, the plan to dredge the Lower Cape Fear is d-e-a-d, at least for quite a while. Tons of PFAS-contaminated sand would have been excavated, placed on public beaches & bird islands, plus wetlands loss, shoreline erosion, the list goes on insideclimatenews.org/news/2502202...
cosplaying as a homeless person, geez-us
I consider myself a pacifist, but some people need punched in the face
I spent the afternoon interviewing a woman who fostered 60 children over the years, is now an enviro advocate, names all her chickens and a snapping turtle who lives by the pond, has a chick cemetery w flowers and a small angel statuary.
There are still kind people in the world.
A Falcon rocket crashing through the atmosphere left a massive metal pollution plume detected from Earth. Researchers say such contamination is rising rapidly as launch activity surges, and they warn that the atmosphere and climate could be harmed.
15 years after a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse was first found in New Jersey, scientists are still unable to determine the cause of the ranavirus outbreaks and what the long-term consequences may be. But rising temperatures could be exacerbating the problem.
a satirical onion headline w a photo of rfk jr
The Kurse of Kudzu
To offset transportation emissions, California is paying hog farms in North Carolina to turn manure into renewable gas. Although six NC farms are selling carbon credits to the other side of the country, the operations’ permits already have civil rights complaints against them.