Atrazine resembles the growth hormones of other organisms, including frogs and potentially humans.
Inasmuch as the runoff of nitrogen is an interstate transport problem, managing the application of fertilizer and loss of nitrogen to runoff should be a high priority for the Federal government.
The microparticles in soil and sediments may persist indefinitely, casting a sedimentary record of human activity on the planet.
Fracking promises that we will delay the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
Have the laws of physics been reversed?
It is a lot to ask the microbial population in a septic system to break down chemicals that they have never experienced in nature, let alone those designed to inhibit their activities.
Nearly all nitrogen pollution stems from agriculture, which strives to feed more than 7 billion of us with low-cost abundance.
we must depend on federal regulations that prevent the purposeful or inadvertent contaminations of the environment from affecting the health of all of us.
Future generations will have no escape from the pressure of their own numbers and the stresses of a full planet.
Hurricane Florence provides a stark demonstration of how runoff and overflows can contaminate waterways with hog waste and coal-ash leachates.