Water skiing on the Mississippi River
It takes more than 200 pages of dense, legalistic language to detail the intricacies of the federal Clean Water Act. But the bottom line is simple: Federal and state governments must protect lakes, streams and…
U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer
Last year’s global average temperature was the 10th warmest since 1850. In fact, eight of the past 10 years, and 13 of the last 14, are among the warmest on record.
So naturally, Blaine Luetkemeyer, a Republican…
A Tennessee valley flooded by toxic coal ash.
More than 1.3 million tons of toxic coal ash sludge are stored in ponds and landfills at Missouri and Illinois power plants. About 300 similar sites are located across the country. Federal environmental…
The scenic brown waters of the River Des Peres in 2003. Raw sewage flows into it in dozens of places. (Post-Dispatch file photo)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reckons that clean water is affordable if it costs 2 percent or less…
Each year, U.S. power plants generate enough coal ash to fill 1 million railroad cars. It contains toxic metals — including arsenic, lead, selenium and mercury — that can cause cancer and other serious health problems.
Individually, each of those toxins…
Somewhere in this great land of ours, we suppose, are men and women who stare at the gray-tinged photographs of the Beijing Olympics and think of what have might been.
What if that inversion layer hadn’t settled over Donora, Pa., that day in…
About 1,800 U.S. military veterans die each day, 686,000 in 2007 alone. Most served during World War II. Others saw action at Cold War hot spots like Korea and Vietnam.
Long after the last of them has died — indeed, after…
Caught between a federal judge’s order and a mountain of accumulating scientific evidence, the Bush administration reluctantly listed polar bears as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act. But the administration pointedly refuses to address the threat that imperils the bears and…
