An environmentalist group announced Wednesday it will be filing a lawsuit against utility company FirstEnergy over alleged environmental violations at...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.18.2012
As the House of Representatives votes on an extension to its transportation bill Wednesday, environmental advocates are crying foul on an amendment th...
Bill Chameides | Posted 04.10.2012
A product used not just by farmers but also by lots of us common variety home gardeners and lawn groomers has been linked to a variety of unsavory health effects from cancer (in people) to hormonal disruptions (in animals).
Reuters | Posted 04.06.2012
April 5 (Reuters) - A coalition of environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday to force the Obama administration to finalize new rules regulati...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.14.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Arsenic a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.14.2011
Just days before the three-year anniversary of the devastating dike failure at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant, the Environment...
Reuters | Posted 02.13.2012
* Power plant waste product newly detected in 10 states * EPA, watchdog group see total 157 contaminated sites * Those w...
AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON — Conservative flashpoint issues from abortion and abstinence education to President Barack Obama's health care law are the biggest o...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 01.03.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The buck ...
Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 01.02.2012
Monday's Lake Michigan coal ash collapse shows that states are not protecting our health and our environment from cancer-causing coal ash, and as long as EPA fails to act, there will be more coal ash destruction.
Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 12.25.2011
New polling information that shows overwhelming majorities of Americans support stronger health and environmental standards, and they also think Congress should back off and let the EPA do its job.
Wendy Gordon | Posted 12.17.2011
We cannot wait until the next election. Attacks on our health and environmental safeguards are happening now.
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 12.14.2011
WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through legislation Friday that gives the states the power to regulate coal ash from power plants as if it...
Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 12.12.2011
Believe it or not, the banana peel you throw away has more robust protections on it than coal ash containing mercury, arsenic, hexavalent chromium and lead. If this bill passes, that horrible status quo would become the law.
HuffingtonPost.com | Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 08.16.2011
An industry-funded report released late Wednesday suggests that federal regulation of coal combustion residuals, or coal ash, currently being consider...
HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 08.13.2011
When President Barack Obama let it be known in January 2009 that he had selected Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to be his regulatory czar, it was...
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011
Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...
Michelle Chan | Posted 05.25.2011
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The Huffington Post | Joanna Zelman | Posted 05.25.2011
250 million years ago was not a fun time to live on earth. Studies now suggest that around this time, volcanic eruptions sparked coal fires that may h...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The new m...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Snow-mage...
The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011
Editor's Note: Due to the holidays, the Weekly Mulch will appear on Thursday afternoon both this week and next week. We'll resume regular Friday morni...
Michael Brune | Posted 05.25.2011
On a cold, rainy California morning -- the shortest, darkest day of the year -- a ray of summer sunshine showed up in my mailbox all the way from New ...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Climate and energy legislation is dead, coal ash regulations are delayed indefinitely, mountaintop removal mining continues, and the myth of "clean coal" is alive and well thanks to continuing praise by Obama and Biden.
Mindy S. Lubber | Posted 05.25.2011
'Tis the season for low expectations on climate change and other global sustainability challenges. Yet there's no reason to think our stockings will forever be stuffed with coal.
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.30.2012