It’s going to get hazier before it gets better. The Big Apple is under an Air Quality Health Advisory as the Canadian and Great Lake wildfire smoke slowly takes over our skies. The air pollution reached “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” levels of air quality around 11 a.m., and is expected to remain so until around … Read more
A fast-moving wildfire in Los Angeles County has burned more than 2,600 acres as officials issued evacuation orders and smoke advisories for toxic air conditions. The Summit Fire continued to burn in the northern region of LA county near the San Bernardino County line in Antelope Valley on Saturday morning, officials said. The Summit Fire has … Read more
Los Angeles is gasping for air. People are inhaling smoke, soot and other airborne detritus following the Boyle Heights warehouse fire and new findings show the air quality has put the LA wildfires of January 2025 to shame. Just three days after the fire broke out last month, a monitoring station at Eastman Avenue Elementary … Read more
The demolition of an iconic Manhattan steam plant that served as the filming location for several Marvel streaming series has been halted because the city violated its own asbestos rules. Work on the 87-year-old, city-owned Roosevelt Island steam plant — set to be razed under a plan managed by the city Housing and Preservation Department … Read more
Sable Offshore scored a rare win over environmental activists in California after regulators ruled the technical “hiccups” behind excess air pollution at one of its offshore oil platforms should be resolved within months. The Air Pollution Control District’s quasi-judicial hearing examiner Terrence Dressler granted the oil company a five-day variance allowing Platform Heritage, located eight … Read more
California’s Napa Valley is fermenting into a full-blown revolt as furious vineyard owners warn a new fee could leave them paying tens of thousands of dollars a year — the latest financial punch threatening to crush the struggling wine industry. Farmers across the iconic Northern California enclave say they are staring down financial disaster as … Read more
Several major California metropolitan areas have found themselves at the bottom of a new study measuring the best and worst-run cities in America. WalletHub analyzed 148 of the biggest American metropolitan areas, trying to determine how efficiently the local governments run each city. They developed a “Quality of Services” score based on 36 different metrics … Read more
Here’s the dirt on America. A new survey has revealed the US cities with the worst pollution, including metrics for air quality and waste management, as well as how it affects both the physical and mental well-being of their residents. The study, conducted by landscape care company LawnStarter, assessed more than 300 of America’s biggest … Read more
A medical supplies warehouse burst into flames, going up in a matter of minutes, as a new video from inside the San Joaquin facility shows just how quickly the situation got out of hand. A video taken by an employee shows a small fire burning and quickly spreading on top of the Medline warehouse’s shelving. … Read more
They nuked New Yorkers’ energy bills. New York officials struggling to meet the state’s ambitious green energy mandates amid rising utility costs are haunted by a fateful decision to close a nuclear plant that supplied power to the Big Apple and the Hudson Valley, critics told The Post. Indian Point Energy Center supplied 25% of … Read more