The consequences of the Trump administration firing thousands of environmental employees from the federal government could ...

Staffers with the Office of Environmental Justice were informed their department is expecting a notice that the office is closing or they are being placed on leave as early as Thursday.

To avoid this confusion buyers are entitled to request copies of any environmental reports completed to determine if there is any asbestos or hazardous materials that require abatement. Asbestos is a ...

More information: Leslie Sanchez et al, Multi-hazard risk in socially vulnerable communities across the United States, Environmental Research Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad9ec7 Journal ...

In addition to the risks of exposure to infectious materials and hazardous chemicals, environmental hazards include noise, fire incidents, chemical spills, adverse events of equipment malfunction, and ...

Definition: Moral hazard is a situation in which one party gets involved in a risky event knowing that it is protected against the risk and the other party will incur the cost. It arises when both the ...

The oil spill response industry is adaptable, he said, meaning responders work in all kinds of weather and environmental conditions. Oil might not spread as far if it's trapped in ice, but ice ...

Clinton’s Executive Order 12898, signed in February 1994, required federal agencies to analyze environmental and public health hazards in minority or low-income communities and to avoid adding ...

Now, they are even in our blood. Hazard NJ returns for a second season to take a deep dive into the history of these toxic substances, the current pollution crisis and the ways it is being addressed.

Moreover, environmental stressors often co-occur, creating multi-hazard scenarios that can have synergistic or cumulative impacts on human health. For example, exposure to air and noise pollution can ...

The model architecture was designed to use near-real-time data, and it can be implemented in a cloud computing environment (i.e., Google Cloud Platform) for the routine assessment of landslide hazards ...