Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, PNC Bank announced yesterday that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia. The shift outlined in its 2015 Corporate Responsibility Report means PNC Bank will effectively cease its investment in this… Read More ›
Water quality
Worst Drought in 1,000 Years Predicted for American West
Global warming to cause historic “megadrought” by century’s end. By Brian Clark Howard Large parts of the U.S. are in for a drought of epic proportions in the second half of this century, scientists warn in a new study that… Read More ›
Second crude pipeline spill in Montana wreaks havoc on Yellowstone River
By Nate Schweber Environmental damage from recent oil leak ranges from contaminated water supply to polluted farmland GLENDIVE, Montana — When an oil pipeline burst in July 2011 and poured 63,000 gallons of crude into the Yellowstone River 200 miles… Read More ›
Water Pipelines
By Zoltan Grossman via The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington With diminishing water supplies and rapid human population growth, communities and countries are being prompted to investigate alternative water resources. Water pipelines have been a proposed, but controversial option. These… Read More ›