environmental

Article recounts that leaded gasoline was known to be toxic from its invention, highlighting the historical suppression of health risks.

Cheyenne suspended Meta's data center water discharges after a contractor's cooling system flush released metal-resistant bacteria into the city's reclaimed water supply, forcing months-long cleanup.

The Great Salt Lake Tracker is an interactive web tool that provides up-to-date data on lake water levels, salinity, and exposed lakebed to inform the public and policymakers about the health of the largest saline lake in North America.

This paper develops a Bayesian deep learning framework to estimate the causal effect of air pollution regulations on PM2.5 concentrations in London from 2010 to 2020, finding an average reduction of 1.88 μg/m³ (12.35%).

The DOJ intervened in a NAACP lawsuit against xAI, arguing that stopping the company's unpermitted gas turbines at its Colossus 2 data center threatens national security because xAI's Grok AI model supports military operations.

TerraBench is a new benchmark for evaluating AI agents' ability to reason over heterogeneous Earth-system data, including gridded data, satellite imagery, and simulator outputs. It reveals significant limitations in current frontier models, with top performers achieving only 59.2% tool-use score on average.

A Texas drainage district discovered Tesla's lithium refinery was discharging 231,000 gallons of treated wastewater daily into a ditch without the district's knowledge, prompting complaints and an investigation that found no permit violations but did not test for heavy metals or lithium.