US ranks 24th in the world on environmental performance


Plastic pollution, California. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care

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The United States is far behind other industrialized nations on environmental performance, according to researchers at Yale and Columbia universities. The U.S. ranks 24th in the 2020 Environmental Performance Index, released Thursday.

The poor ranking, putting the United States behind most of Europe, reflects the nation’s growing environmental and sustainability problems — including the rolling back of EPA rules and relaxed enforcement for air and water protections by the Trump administration…

Read Full Article, Guardian UK (06-04-2020)

U.S. ranks 24th in newly released 2020 Environmental Performance Index, UPI (06-04-2020)

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