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he Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, one of Washington’s top 10 sources of greenhouse gases. Credit: Flickr Photo/Scott Butner (CC BY NC ND 2.0) These Are Washington’s Top 10 Climate Polluters By John Ryan Jan 29, 2016 at 9:30 am The biggest climate polluters in Washington have been identified, according to numbers out this week: the

Elizabeth Kolbert Some international disputes are significant for symbolic reasons, others for substantive ones. The current conflict between the United States and the European Union over airline-emissions limits is both. Unfortunately this means that the U.S. is doubly on the wrong side. The Obama Administration ought to be applauding the Europeans. Instead it’s threatening a

Toxic pollutants kill at least ten thousand annually, study says. By Mason Inmanfor National Geographic News Published October 10, 2010   There’s a new fear of flying: You’re more likely to die from exposure to toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in a plane crash, a new study suggests. In recent years, airplane crashes have

Long-Form: Chronically catastrophic chemist Thomas Midgley accidentally poisons the world with a neurotoxin, and Clair Patterson tries to stop him. Written by Alan Bellows • Non-Fiction • December 2007 Thomas Midgley At the turn of the twentieth century, as the age of automobiles was afoot, the newfangled gasoline-powered internal combustion engine began to reach the limitations of the fuel that fed it. As