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Potomac River is clean enough to swim in but DC isn’t rushing to make it legal

Washington, D.C., is in no hurry to make swimming in the Potomac River legal despite significant improvements made in the river’s water quality and bacterial levels.  Under Washington law, swimming in the Potomac River has been illegal since 1971. At the time, Washington enacted a swimming ban to prevent illness due to concerns about high […]

California clean energy project threatens thousands of Joshua trees: reports

A California-based renewable energy company is reportedly planning to cut down thousands of protected Joshua trees in the Mojave Desert to make way for a solar project that will power about 180,000 homes in coastal areas instead of the affected areas. The Los Angeles Times reported that Avantas plans to build the Alatina solar project […]

CHRIS FARRELL: Clean Voter Rolls Matter

Dirty voter rolls make for dirty elections. Sloppy registration and accountability procedures and/or willful blindness to loaded-up voter rolls are key ingredients for mischief, manipulation and other voting “irregularities.” Bloated, inaccurate voter registrations can create the conditions that undermine public confidence in the already badly damaged reputations of officials and agencies administering our elections. The […]

Offshore Wind Is Neither Clean, Nor Green And Doesn’t Cut CO2 Emissions

America is preparing to spend trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars to install thousands of offshore wind turbines – for illusory benefits. Advocates claim offshore wind energy is clean and sustainable. Wind itself certainly is, but that doesn’t mean getting energy from wind is. Relying on the wind just to provide electricity to power New […]

How Biden is outflanking Trump on China trade, clean energy and climate change 

When it comes to China, President Biden has taken a series of actions in his tough 2024 campaign that sharply contrast his trade and climate change policies with those of his predecessor, Donald Trump. If Mr. Biden’s actions are successful, they could effectively neutralize Mr. Trump’s claims on trade with China and key industrial battleground […]

Company fined $650K for employing children to clean meat processing plants

A Tennessee-based sanitation company will be fined more than $500,000 after a federal investigation found it illegally employed at least 20 children to clean hazardous meat processing facilities in Iowa and Virginia. agreed to pay. The U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday that Fayette Janitorial Services LLC entered into a consent decree agreeing to a […]