A UK town less than 20 miles from London has had a steep increase in commercial emissions over the past two decades, prompting alarm from local politicians. Slough, in Berkshire, was found to have seen a whopping 52% rise since 2005, way above the figures seen for a number of traditional industrial areas, according to…
A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue operating the gas turbines that power the company’s Grok chatbot. The permit comes amid widespread community opposition and a looming lawsuit alleging the company violated the Clean Air Act. The Shelby County Health Department released its air…
State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in certain places, a new study published Thursday in the journal Science found. More than 600 bag policies, along with records from…