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Superfund Me
Silicon Valley has a secret. Beneath its comically unaffordable real estate lie 23 federally designated sites of toxic waste, 8 more than...
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May 29, 20205 min read


Saving Soil with Subsidies
Modern environmental regulation and debate tends to focus on electric and industrial production—how it pollutes and how it can be...
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Dec 5, 20186 min read


Cacophonous Politics of Noise
In 1913, the Futurist painter Luigi Russolo wrote a manifesto encouraging readers to “walk across a great modern metropolis with ears...
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Nov 5, 20186 min read


Make Lake Champlain Great Again
On March 6, 1998 Bill Clinton signed the reauthorization of the National Sea Grant College Program, an act providing 33 colleges with...
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Feb 26, 20184 min read


Will Autonomous Vehicles Cause Our Transport System to Crash and Burn?
Already one of the leading causes of death in the United States, traffic accidents are alarmingly on the rise. From 2015 to 2016, the...
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Nov 3, 20174 min read


Urban Pollution in India: Short-Term Fixes for a Long-Term Problem
In January 2015, the government of New Delhi decided to run a unique 15-day experiment. Under Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam...
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Mar 16, 20176 min read


The Polluter (Never) Pays: Southeast Asia’s Recurring Haze Crisis
Singapore’s Central Business District is known for its world-famous skyline. It boasts towering skyscrapers, a giant Ferris wheel, and...
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Oct 12, 20155 min read


The Atmospheric Wasteland
Since Sputnik kicked off the space race, humans have steadily littered Earth’s orbit with derelict satellites, spent rocket stages and...
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Oct 22, 20143 min read


Why Breweries, Big Coal and Putin May Keep Fracking Out of Germany
Following the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Germany ambitiously vowed to shut down all its nuclear capacity in favor of renewable energy...
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Aug 4, 20144 min read


Clean Coal: China’s Path Towards Blue Skies?
Global environmental policy is rife with unfulfilled promises, as evidenced by the notorious Kyoto Protocols. China, to much surprise,...
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Mar 4, 20144 min read
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