When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… to move it 350 miles south to the Arrowhead landfill in Uniontown, Alabama - where 88.2% … of the population is African American. The landfill was originally approved as a small local landfill for domestic and construction waste. …
It’s the greener way to go, but it seems bicycling can tackle everything from health issues to homelessness. Claire Baylis learns the meaning of true pedal power.
… yet numerous unwanted cycles wind up in landfill, wasting precious resources. … it’s about stopping bikes going into landfill. ‘A lot of abandoned bikes do; when …
The UK will soon complete a record year for solar installations, almost doubling the nation's solar capacity. But drastic and overtly discriminatory changes to support for renewables may see solar installations collapse to 1% of current levels.
… - a category that includes onshore wind, landfill gas, hydro and solar - to compete …
Perplexed by today's sharp cuts in solar power and other attacks on renewable energy in the UK? Don't be, writes Oliver Tickell. Really, it all makes perfect sense. You just have to understand their real purpose: to keep your energy bills high, along with power company profits. And never mind the 'green crap'!
… includes solar and other technologies such as landfill gas, not just wind. "The subsidy cost …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
… 'circular economy' package to reduce waste to landfill and increase recycling would get …
Long after we go extinct the human presence on Earth will be marked by a geological stratum rich in plastic garbage, according to a new study. Long-lived plastics are already widespread over the ocean floor, and there's a lot more on its way. Forget the 'Anthropocene' - the human era should rightly be called the Plasticene.
… over coming millennia as temporary stores - landfill sites - are eroded. Plastics already …
Every summer a team of cyclists set off across Britain stopping along the way to perform an eco-themed play to schools, festivals and communities. Welcome to the Otesha Project...
… and the amount of clothing going to landfill, the 'food' theme issues include food …