WASHINGTON — Officials tell The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people'...
Posted 11.25.2009 | Green
The EPA has just announced that Verizon Wireless has agreed to pay a penalty of $468,000 for violating environmental regulations at 655 facilities in ...
John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green
If we live in poverty and industry uses our neighborhoods to site their most toxic operations, how do we pay for the illness those operations cause?
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Gillian Caldwell | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green
In the past week, a drama unfolded around the Senate EPW Committee hearings for the new Senate bill on climate and clean energy jobs. Declarations! Boycott threats! Power plays!
A. Siegel | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
Republicans are absolutely right and absolutely wrong when it comes to EPA analysis of climate legislation. They are right that the analysis has flaws, but they are wrong about what should be done about it.
John Petro | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn: both a site for a future Whole Foods and a potential federal Superfund site. Only in New York.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green
If approved, the proposal would be the largest designation of critical habitat in the history of the Endangered Species Act.
Henry Henderson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago
The EPA is back: it just weighed in on the controversial BP refinery expansion on Lake Michigan and issued an objection to the lax pollution permit that Indiana had lavished on the project.
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
The holding company owned by multi-billionaire Ronald Perelman is debating whether to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Huffington Post has lear...
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 10.17.2009 | Impact
It's special when an advocate bears witness to a tidal shift in attitude and action around a cause. I experienced just that when EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced recently that her agency, with the White House, is ready to get tough on toxic chemicals.
Kevin George | Posted 10.10.2009 | Green
These are just of few of the characters on the global stage whom I met - and who shared their stories of their paths on the road to Copenhagen.
The Colorado Independent | David O. Williams | Posted 11.28.2009 | Denver
Opponents of coal-fired power plants around the country were buoyed by a decision Friday to send the proposed 1,500-megawatt Desert Rock facility near...
Bruce Nilles | Posted 11.25.2009 | Green
Nearly a hundred million tons of toxic coal ash and related coal combustion wastes pile up in unlined ponds and pits across the U.S. every year, the second largest solid waste stream in the nation.
Kelly Caldwell | Posted 11.12.2009 | New York
Everyone remembers the huge dust clouds. Almost immediately, people began streaming into the Disaster Assistance Center where I worked, asking for help with toxic-air related problems.
Jerry Cope | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Laura Steepleton and Nick Stocks spent the past week tree-sitting 80 feet above the ground in an act of civil disobedience protesting Massey Energy's mountaintop removal site there.
Chris Brassington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business
I did a little research to find out the effects of direct mail on the environment. The stats astounded me.
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Even some of the Chamber of Commerce's own corporate members are fed up with their attempts to derail climate legislation.
nytimes.com | SHAILA DEWAN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Green
Almost every day, a train pulls into a rail yard in rural Alabama, hauling 8,500 tons of a disaster that occurred 350 miles away to a final resting pl...
Lisa P. Jackson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Green
To confront the urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century, we need to make sure that every community sees their stake in this movement.
Harry Moroz | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Obama and Biden promise they will not spend our money badly. Government stimulus spending is presented by the administration as a necessary evil.
Huffingtion Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund recently published an article revealing that the EPA had failed to inform customers about the presence of a wid...
AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business
WARREN, Mich. — General Motors said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt electric car could get 230 mpg in city driving, making it the first American vehi...
Gallup | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
At a time when Americans are discouraged about the direction of the country and hesitant about the scope of President Barack Obama's federal budget pl...
Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.22.2009 | Green
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged the need to clean up the island of Vieques last week at the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
AP | DINA CAPPIELLO and H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 12.07.2009 | Green