Enlarge / Traffic jam forms on Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles. (credit: Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News) The Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge associated with restoring California’s ability to set strict tailpipe emissions limits, according to news reports, while at the same time looking in adopting a version of the state’s […]
Enlarge / Exhaust from fossil fuel vehicles is a significant contributor to PM2. 5 pollution in the US. (credit: Ina Fassbender/picture alliance) At the outset of the pandemic, when lockdowns were widespread, the remarkable phenomenon occurred. Places that had been saturated with pollution suddenly cleared. The sky over Los Angeles turned blue. Snow-capped mountain ranges […]
Enlarge / Coal smoke and steam vapor pour out of the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant across from a largely abandoned children’s park on September 11, 2008, in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. After two enormous toxic coal soot discharges in 2006 and 2007, the children’s park was rarely used. The 2,460 MW coal-fired plant wasn’t fully decommissioned until […]
Expand / A considerate soul decides to poison the atmosphere as he pushes through the infield at Daytona International Raceway throughout the 2016 Rolex 24 race. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) I recall the first-time someone wrapped lava on me. It had been 2006, and that I had been driving to work in the University of Kentucky. […]
Expand /“Remember, remember the fifth of November”: some 1997 Bonfire Night at Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, England, commemorating Guy Fawkes and The Conspiracy of this Powders plot to blow up the English Parliament and King James I. (charge: Teesside Archive/Mirrorpix/Getty Pictures ) Tonight, individuals in Great Britain will celebrate Guy Fawkes Day with bonfires and complex […]