Tag: Environmental concerns
UK court blocks Heathrow expansion over climate concerns
LONDON (AP) - Heathrow Airport's plans to increase capacity of Europe's biggest travel hub by over 50% were stalled Thursday when a British court...
Campaigners win court challenge to block Heathrow expansion
LONDON (AP) - Campaigners won a court ruling Thursday to block the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on environmental grounds, setting...
Campaigners win court challenge to block Heathrow expansion
LONDON (AP) - Campaigners won a court ruling Thursday to block the plan for a third runway at Heathrow Airport on environmental grounds, setting...
UK ruling due on Heathrow expansion amid climate concern
LONDON (AP) - Britain's Court of Appeal is preparing to publish its decision in a case that could stall the 14 billion-pound ($18 billion)...
Scientists gather to study risk from microplastic pollution
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Tiny bits of broken-down plastic smaller than a fraction of a grain of riceare turning up everywhere in oceans, from...
Groups want cows corralled to protect jumping mouse habitat
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Environmentalists have accused U.S. land managers of failing to keep livestock and wild horses out of streams and other wetlands...
The Latest: Biden would nix subsidies for oil, gas companies
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The latest on the 2020 presidential campaign and Democratic debat e (all times local):7:25 p.m.Joe Biden says that he would...
Toxic Superfund cleanups decline to more than 30-year low
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites last year than any administration since the program’s first years...
Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to fight climate change
NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said Monday that he plans to spend $10 billion of his own fortune to help fight...
UK grapples with severe floods, storm death toll rises to 3
LONDON (AP) - Britain issued severe flood warnings Monday, advising of life-threatening danger after Storm Dennis dumped weeks' worth of rain in some places....
