Environmental Protection Agency

Pollution Ravages Low-Income Communities; Residents Speak Out

David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Power Plants, Reducing Carbon Emissions, Environmental Protection Agency, Carbon Emissions, Low-Income, Coal, Epa, Green News

With moments of compelling commentary, the EPA forum provided a pressing reminder that there are real victims of our choice to pollute or put up with pollution, and in many instances those victims are from low-income areas.

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Tell the EPA You Support Carbon Pollution Protections

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Epa, Environment, Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Health, Coal, Sierra Club, Green News

If anything, the EPA is arriving late in the game, following in the footsteps of community leaders, governors, state regulators, and financiers who all realized, in the past decade, that new power plants in this country must deal with their carbon pollution.

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Irresponsible Care: National Children's Study Faces changes That May Put Children's Health at Greater Risk

Nancy Chuda | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Public Health, Environmental Protection Agency, Flame Retardants, Pbde, Child Safety, Epa, Green News

Public health advocates have long pushed for stronger standards on flame retardants, and, in particular, those containing polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PDBEs), citing studies that suggest they cause harmful health effects -- especially in children.

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Is There a Clean Energy Standard in Our Future?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Jeff Bingaman, Economics, Massachusetts v. EPA, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Utilities, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Fuel Economy, Pollution, Power Plants, Clean Air Act, Transportation, Carbon Footprint, Clean Energy Standard, Energy Efficiency, Biomass, Electricity, U.S. Energy Information Administration, Copenhagen Accord, Renewables, Hydropower, Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Solar Power, Clean Energy Standard Act (S2146), Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Gas, Green News

Americans are behind Obama, in the sense that they support the president's concept of a national clean energy standard. But they're also behind, in the sense that the voting public is unwilling to go as far as the president wants to go because of costs.

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America's No. 1 Environmentalist Subversive

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Energy, China, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency, Satire, Comedy, Comedy News

Environmentalists took over Hollywood and the media ages ago. And now, with those crazies in the White House, they've taken over our government. Next, they'll take control of corporate America and then you can kiss your big old, made-in-the-USA carbon footprint goodbye.

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U.S. Acid Rain Regulations: Did They Work?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Cap and Trade, Acid Precipitation, Economics, Delaware, Economy, Acid Rain, Electricity, Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency, Energy, Acid Rain Program, Acidity, Acid Rain Regulations, Green News

U.S. acid rain regulations have worked. What's more, they didn't seem to get in the way of the country's longest economic expansion.

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Federal Fracking Regulations Cover Only A Sliver Of Land

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: EPA Hydraulic Fracturing, Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Fracking, Epa, Epa Fracking Regulations, Blm, Epa Fracking Rules, Natural Gas, EPA Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Epa Natural Gas, Epa Draft Fracking Rules, Green News

ProPublica's Lena Groeger Reports: Last week’s media coverage of the Obama administration’s newly-proposed fracking rules focused so heavily on...

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New York Times Calls on Lisa Jackson to Tackle "the Risk From Chemical Plants"

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Green News, Sustainability, Chemical Security, New York Times, Lisa Jackson, Chemicals, President Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson EPA, Epa, Clean Air Act, Green News

The New York Times today called on EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to use her authority under the Clean Air Act to require dangerous chemical facilities to use safer processes, instead of storing large quantities of poison gases.

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Wyoming Persuaded EPA To Delay Fracking Study Announcement

AP | MEAD GRUVER | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Wyoming Fracking, Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Wyoming Natural Gas, Wyoming Epa Study, Fracking, Wyoming Epa, Epa, Hydraulic Fracturing, Epa Fracking Study, Wyoming Epa Fracking, Ap, Green News

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming's governor persuaded the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to postpone an announcement linking hydrauli...

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Frogs Need More Than a Kiss

Noah Greenwald | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Endangered Species, Extinction, Amphibians, Environmental Protection Agency, Frogs, Endangered Species Act, Reptiles, Green News

Under a mounting barrage of environmental pressures, one in four amphibian species in the United States are now imperiled and worldwide, and 122 species have gone extinct since 1980.

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'Agent Orange Corn' Sparks Public Outcry

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Chemistry, Environmental Protection Agency, Enlist, Video, Dow AgroSciences, UK Viral Videos, Genetically Modified Food, Food, Agent Orange Corn, Genetically Modified Crops, Corn, Green News

WASHINGTON -- A new kind of genetically modified crop under the brand name of "Enlist" -- known by its critics as "Agent Orange corn" -- has opponents...

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Christie Administration Withdraws Charge Against Federal Agency

Star-Ledger | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Politics News, Environmental Protection Agency, Jon Corzine, Chris Christie, Carbon Emissions, Epa, Green News, Environment, New Jersey Politics, Politics News

New Jersey has backed out of a federal lawsuit calling for tougher ozone regulation than what was implemented by the Bush administration in 2008, acco...

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Entrepreneurs Find Cash In Trash

Reuters | Christina Hernandez Sherwood | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Recycling, Environmental Protection Agency, Recyclematch, Video, Small Business, Ecoscraps, Startup, Recycle, Epa, Environment, Small Business News and Trends, Startups, Trash, Small Business News

(Reuters) - Some entrepreneurs across the country are building businesses based on the belief that garbage -- once destined to rot in a landfill -- ca...

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Earth Day Call to Service: Vote Green and Clean in 2012

Christine Pelosi | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Al Gore, Karl Rove, President Obama, Koch Brothers, Earth Day, Climate Change, PG&E, Epa, Clean Money, Earth Day 2012, Department of Energy, Democratic Party, Citizens United, Democrats, Environmental Protection Agency, Republicans, Politics News

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy. What must we do? Vote green and clean in 2012.

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Obama's Secretive Keystone XL Decision

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Obama Administration, Obama Keystone Xl, Keystone, Keystone Pipeline, Keystone XL Pipeline, Keystone XL, Obama Keystone Pipeline, President Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Sackett v. Epa, Politics News

The oppressive monster known as the Environmental Protection Agency is not just killing jobs these days -- it is intentionally avoiding transparency that may shed light on the political motivations behind the agency's actions.

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Slow The Frack Down

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Seven and a Half Things You Need to Know, Fracking, Epa, Environment, Hydrofracking, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Fracking, Business News

Vikram Pandit's Connecticut house has six and one half bathrooms, which is one less than the number of things you need to know today. Here they are (t...

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We're Leading The 'Energy Star' Nation

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Star, Rentwood Medical Plaza, Caa, Energy Star Buildings, Los Angeles Firemen's Credit Union, City of LA Public Works Building, Los Angeles Energy Star, Epa, Directors Guild of America, Fox Plaza, Los Angeles News

Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual list of cities with the highest number of Energy Star buildings. Los Ang...

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A Fight for Our Future

Michael Brune | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Elections 2012, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Energy, Sierra Club, President Obama, Environmental Regulations, Emissions Standards, Epa, Green News

Because President Barack Obama has stood with us on the side of health, prosperity, and progress for all American families, I am proud to announce that the Sierra Club is endorsing him for reelection.

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"I Am a Dumpster Diver, and I Eat Trash"

The Daily Collegian | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Dumpster Diving, Penn State, Pennsylvania State University, Epa, Urban Foraging, Food Waste, Free Food, Green Food, College News

When you jump all the way into a dumpster, you start thinking about what other people would think if they saw you standing ankle-deep in garbage bags. But I'm already sure that I'm going to try my hand at dumpster diving again.

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Two for Tuesday: The Latest on Common Pesticide and Coal Ash

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).

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Is Mercury in Fish as Harmful as You Thought?

EatingWell | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Mercury, Healthy Eating, Eating Well, Mercury Poisoning, Seafood, Food and Drug Administration, Environmental Protection Agency, Epa, Fda, Food News

The fact that most ocean fish are so high in selenium explains why more and more research suggests the benefits of eating seafood outweigh any risks mercury exposure could pose. Do I (and you) really need to be avoiding those fish?

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Coast Guard Sinks Japanese Ghost Ship

AP | MARK THIESSEN and RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Kip Wadlow, Gulf of Alaska, Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Paul Webb, Japan Tsunami, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Japanese Ghost Ship, Japan, Coast Guard, Ryou-Un Maru, World News

OVER THE GULF OF ALASKA -- A U.S. Coast Guard cutter poured cannon fire into a Japanese ghost ship that had been drifting since last year's tsunami, s...

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Less than One Month to Comment on Corn Resistant to Agent Orange Herbicide 2,4-D

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Environmental Protection Agency, Gmos, Corn, GE Food, Environment, Usda, Center for Food Safety, Food News

The USDA is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn variety resistant to hazardous herbicides.

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How EPA Can Balance Economic Development and Environmental Justice for the World's Poor

Eva M. Clayton | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Economic Development, Palm Oil Africa, Sustainability Africa, Food Security Africa, Palm Oil Farmers, Africa Women Entrepreneurs, Sustainable Agriculture Africa, Sustainable Food Africa, Impact News

The hope for Africa is that it can leverage its considerable endowments -- its arable land and the hard working nature of its people -- to kick start sustainable economic growth and realize food and economic security.

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Buffett: Business Can't Take 'Shortcuts' On This

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Energy, Berkshire Hathaway, Environmental Regulations, Environmental Protection Agency, Energy Industry, Carbon Emissions, Fracking, Environmental Regulation, Epa, Energy Sector, Warren Buffett, Hydrofracking, Energy Companies, Video, Business News

What's bad for the environment is also bad for the bottom line. That's what Warren Buffett is arguing in the latest sustainability report from John...

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