Northeast Ohio groups look to reverse trend of disappearing tree canopy ideastream.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ideastream.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A court hearing is scheduled this week in a lawsuit claiming New Mexico is violating residents rights to a clean and healthy environment by not holding its oil and gas industry accountable. Tim Davis, staff attorney for Wild Earth Guardians Climate and Energy Program, said the lawsuit was filed last May by a coalition that includes environmental groups, indigenous communities and frontline residents near extraction sites. Oil and gas production and their revenues have skyrocketed in New Mexico in the past decade. .
Cleveland kicks off CLEANinCLE community meetings on air quality ideastream.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ideastream.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The City of Cleveland wants new community air advisers to help expand air monitoring in historically redlined neighborhoods. Christina Yoka, chief of air pollution outreach for the Cleveland Department of Public Health, said children in the city s predominantly Black communities a "C"-shaped area known as the Cleveland Crescent have higher rates of asthma and other respiratory conditions. She emphasized the project s goal is to improve the accuracy of air pollution monitoring at the local level. .