CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act)
CERCLA gives the EPA the authority to intervene in order to clean up sites that are or could be potentially hazardous to the environment or public.
CERCLA gives the EPA the authority to intervene in order to clean up sites that are or could be potentially hazardous to the environment or public.
The seamount Lōʻihi showed significant seismic activity in the form of an earthquake swarm; over 4,000 earthquakes occurred during less than a month, so far a singular activity.
“Frankenstorm” Hurricane Sandy falls over New York City, becoming the United States’ second costliest hurricane.
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Divergent values are often at the heart of natural resource conflict. Sarah Fleisher Trainor analyses those using the case study of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, USA.
This paper examines three forest value orientations—clusters of interrelated values and basic beliefs about forests—that emerged from an analysis of the public discourse about forest planning, management, and policy in the United States.
In his article, Alastair Iles analyzes how consumers, farmers, activists, industry, and policy-makers in the United States and Europe are building agency in making and using food miles.
Ecovillage at Ithaca could be thought of as an “alternative suburb,” or as a US middle class neighborhood with an ecological focus and a high awareness of community.
In The Next Industrial Revolution, architect Bill McDonough and chemist Michael Braungart bring together ecology and human design.
Celebrating the Hopi Tricentennial, Itam Hakim Hopiit is a poetic visualization of Hopi philosophy and prophesy.