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EU urged to broadly restrict 'forever chemicals'

EU urged to broadly restrict 'forever chemicals'

"Forever chemicals" pose a growing risk to health and the environment and should be broadly banned across the European Union, with some exceptions, EU experts said in findings published on Thursday. Officially called PFAS, the substances are a group of more than 10,000 chemicals used in things

Maryland climate ruling tees up U.S. Supreme Court case

(The Center Square) - The Maryland Supreme Court, in a 3-2 decision, rejected a lawsuit on Tuesday by climate activists seeking damages from energy companies over their perceived contributions to climate change. The judges specifically referenced an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case on a similar topic. The state’s

Study links major polluters to big climate damages bill

Study links major polluters to big climate damages bill

The economic cost of carbon emissions is far higher than previously estimated, said a new study Wednesday that links big polluters to tens of trillions of dollars in climate-related damages worldwide. The study in the journal Nature measures how human-caused warming affects economic growth and assigns a share

Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough

Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough

Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan -- more from seniors than babies -- but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease of life, one hot mess at a time. A pilot project, billed as a world first, reuses the main ingredient in nappies

Gas shortages push India's poor back to wood and coal

Gas shortages push India's poor back to wood and coal

Soaring black-market prices of cooking gas in India's capital are pushing poorer families back to wood and coal, raising health risks and worsening air quality in the highly polluted megacity. India is the world's second-largest buyer of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), which is used

Butte Mine Waste Repository gets formal nod from EPA, DEQ

The Berkeley Pit bit the dust, at least for the foreseeable future, as a place to dump contaminated soils from Superfund sites in the so-called Silver Bow Creek Conservation Area. The Butte Mine Wastes Repository, after being dismissed early on as being too small, ultimately got the nod after

Planet trapped record heat in 2025: UN

Planet trapped record heat in 2025: UN

The amount of heat trapped by the Earth reached record levels in 2025, with the consequences of such warming feared to last for thousands of years, the UN warned Monday. The 11 hottest years ever recorded were all between 2015 and 2025, the United Nations' WMO weather and climate