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Washington, D.C. — Today, the Obama administration officially proposed strengthening fuel efficiency and pollution standards for passenger cars and trucks to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The measure builds on a historic step taken last year to raise vehicle efficiency to 35.5 mpg in 2016 and begin reducing tailpipe carbon pollution levels. The newly [...]

LAKE MICHIGAN – A partial retaining bluff collapse Monday at the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin sent toxic coal ash spewing into Lake Michigan. This collapse comes just weeks after the U.S. House voted to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from protecting Americans from coal ash. In response, Mary Anne Hitt, [...]

For most, that is nothing but a memorable song lyric.  As delightful a song as it may be, that phrase can and should mean much more than an antiquated love chain.  For us, humans, earth-dwellers and omnivores, it should mean something more along the lines of a food chain.  We all learned about these in [...]