Environment

Earth Week 2018: Environmental losses and solutions

April 26, 2018 By Blake Skylar

“We must focus more on making the environment a political issue so that people will vote for candidates who will protect it and fight climate change."

Charges dropped against railroad for Lac-Mégantic catastrophe

April 16, 2018 By Jordan Barab

This was the story not of careless, lazy workers but of a railroad carrying hazardous cargo that cut corners on safety and maintenance wherever it could.

California offshore oil firms rack up nearly 400 violations

April 11, 2018 By Associated Press

Critics have long said state regulators were too cozy with oil interests and had gone easy on enforcement.

Oil keeps flowing as Corps misses deadline for DAPL environmental study

April 4, 2018 By Albert Bender

Foot-dragging Judge Boasberg lets the oil keep flowing through DAPL, even as the Army Corps of Engineers fails to submit an ordered environmental assessment.

This week in history: Saugus Iron Works, 50 years a National Historic Site

April 3, 2018 By Special to People’s World

On April 5, 1968, the Saugus Iron Works was added to the National Park Service system and renamed the Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site.