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  • Scotus - Environmental Rights
    Jody Becker of Chicago Public Radio reports on a thorny environmental case being heard next month by the U.S. Supreme Court. It involves the right of some Chicago suburbs to build a landfill on land that's being used by migratory birds. Some environmental activists warn that the court could use the case to gut the landmark Clean Water Act.
  • Sifting Through the WTC Rubble
    The recovery effort at the site of the former World Trade Center officially ends Thursday, but the search continues at Fresh Kills landfill, just across the harbor on Staten Island. Officials there are still poring over millions of tons of "Ground Zero" rubble, looking for remains, personal effects and evidence. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.
  • EPA creates new office to advance environmental justice initiatives
    Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating an office for advancing environmental justice. (Aired on ATC on Oct. 3, 2022.)
  • EPA creates new office to advance environmental justice initiatives
    Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating a new office charged with advancing environmental justice.
  • The "Atari Dump" of New Mexico, where the game company rid itself of unsold game cartridges, will be excavated this summer. Here, a file photo shows a woman demonstrating Atari's unreleased 1984 Mindlink device, using a headband that picks up impulses from movement of the player's forehead.
    'Atari Dump' Will Be Excavated, After Nearly 30 Years
    After nearly 30 years, the New Mexico landfill that famously was used to bury the game console maker's mistakes — the biggest being the game E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial — will be dug up by game developer Fuel Industries, which hopes to make a documentary about the project.
  • The U.S. produces a lot of food waste. This place wants to address it
    Even amid rising grocery prices and increased sensitivity to environmental issues, Americans still trash once-edible food at alarming rates.
  • Rob Van Vleet secures a wind turbine blade onto an oversize truck at the Kimball Wind Farm in southwest Nebraska.
    Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
    While wind energy is marketed as the future's green energy solution, turbines last only about 20 years, and disposing of their behemoth fiberglass blades is both complicated and costly.
  • Desmond D'Sa stands by the landfill he helped shut down in Durban.
    Facing A Toxic Dump In South Africa, He Cleaned Up
    Desmond D'Sa fought a landfill that took over a beautiful valley and sickened residents with its awful smell. He lost his job but won the battle — and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
  • Give A Goat Your Old Christmas Tree
    Vince Thomas is launching a program for his goats to help recycle holiday trees. Thomas says he got tired of people discarding trees in landfills or in the desert, where they become fire hazards.
  • Legislators Meet Recycling Advocates
    A state tax credit for purchasing equipment to process recyclable materials is set to expire at the end of this year. But since recycling produces many…
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