National Environmental Policy Act

The Fracking Plot Thickens: Are Gas Leases on Thin Ice?

Kyle Rabin | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Elisabeth Radow, Natural Gas, Hydraulic Fracturing, Secretary Tom Vilsack, National Environmental Policy Act, Fracking, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Gas Lease, Green News
Kyle Rabin

Most people would agree that fracking comes with an assortment of environmental risks given that it's a heavy industrial activity; in this case an activity that introduces hazardous substances into people's backyards. What's less clear is the regulatory and legal landscape.

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Lucia Graves

Fracking About-Face By USDA Sparks Filmmaker's Criticism

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Josh Fox, Oil and Gas Drilling, Fracking, Hydraulic Fracture, Drilling Leases, National Environmental Policy Act, Hydrofracking, Gaslands, Usda, Green News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture sparked the ire of hydrofracking opponents Tuesday, when it reversed its plans to require rural housi...

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The Conservation Disjunct: A Republican Heritage Any Good Democrat Would Love to Embrace

Steven Sanderson | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Republican Environmental, Clean Water Act, Republican Green Efforts, Gop Environment, Gop Environmental Efforts, Gop Conservation, Gop Conservation Legislation, Green News
Steven Sanderson

Government must act to protect public goods such as air and collective goods such as wildlife, because otherwise they will go unprotected.

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Los Alamos Lab Waste Transfer Challenged In Federal Court

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Los Alamos Lab, EnergySolutions, Energy Department, Conejos County Clean Water Inc., Nepa, New Mexico, National Environmental Policy Act, Radioactive Waste, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council, Colorado, Utah, Denver News

DENVER — Three groups are challenging the shipment of radioactive waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to Utah through Colora...

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Loopholes and Exemptions; How the Oil and Gas Industry Is Allowed to Police Itself

Andrew Romanoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Romanoff, National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Michael Bennet, Environmentalism, Safe Drinking Water, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Colorado Senate Race, Clean Air Act, Denver News
Andrew Romanoff

In a fundraising appeal he sent out last week, Senator Bennet criticized the "corporate loopholes" that lead to "catastrophic financial and environmental disasters." Mr. Bennet's stance, however, contained a loophole of its own.

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Supreme Court Case a Defeat for Monsanto's Ambitions

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roundup Ready Alfalfa, Supreme Court, Justice Samuel Alito, National Environmental Policy Act, Center for Food Safety, Monsanto, Food News
Andrew Kimbrell

It should be no surprise that Monsanto's PR machine is working hard to spin the truth in this morning's decision in the first-ever Supreme Court case on genetically engineered crops.

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In Wake of BP Spill, Will We Save Our Oceans?

Vikki N. Spruill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, Transocean, Clean Air Act, Exxon Valdez, National Environmental Policy Act, Halliburton, Jacques Cousteau, Clean Water Act, Oil, Environment, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Fisheries, Ocean, Green News
Vikki N. Spruill

As BP Deepwater Horizon shows, in images as grotesque as Cousteau's were gorgeous, we cannot let the ocean's mystery lull us into inaction.

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U.S.-Mexican Border Wall Destroying Habitats for Endangered Animals (SLIDESHOW)

Boonsri Dickinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Immigration, Slideshow, U.S.-Mexican Border, Department of Homeland Security, National Environmental Policy Act, Immigration Control, Illegal Immigrants, Krista Schyler, Habitat, Endangered Species, Border Patrol, Endangered Species Act, Wildlife, Green News
Boonsri Dickinson

The building of a border wall along the Rio Grande has an unlikely victim: local wildlife. Most of the wall, in fact, was built without any regard to environmental laws.

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