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It Is Easy Being Green

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Cell Phones, Environmental Protection Agency, Earth Day, Mobile Phones, Wireless, Green, Green Business, Green Living, Mobile Future, Green News
Jonathan Spalter

According to the EPA, more than 100 million cell phones are discarded annually in the United States and only 10% of these phones get recycled.

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Extreme Infants! Rocket Fuel In Baby Formula! (VIDEO)

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 05.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa-and-Perchlorate, Humor, Baby Formula, Epa, Perchlorate, Environmentalism, Rocket Fuel Water, Environmental Protection Agency, Rocket Fuel, Baby Formula Standards, Epa Rocket Fuel Water, Satire, Political Humor, Environment, Geroge W. Bush, Humor Politics, Political Satire, Humor and Satire, Video, Green News
Matthew Filipowicz

If rocket fuel in baby food isn't enough to push through meaningful environmental legislation, what on earth is?

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No More Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Dirty Coal, Appalachia, Clean Water Protection Act, Mountaintop Mining, Mountaintop Removal, Mtr, Coal, Coal Mining, Mountains, Energy, Cleaner Coal, Environmental Protection, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Mining, Clean Water Act, Green News
Rob Perks

This week, more than 150 activists from around the country walked the halls of Congress, urging their elected leaders to end mountaintop removal coal mining.

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Use Your Cell Phone Cam to Tell EPA You Want Clean Cars

Josh Dorner | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: California Waiver, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Obama Administration, Lisa Jackson, Clean Cars, Sierra Club, Green News
Josh Dorner

This Thursday, we'll be delivering photos of folks from around the country, holding car keys (or bike lock keys or even just your house keys), and saying, "EPA is the key to cleaner cars."

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Bush Endangered Species Rule Put On Hold By Obama

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Environmental Regulations, Bush Administration, Epa, Obama Administration, George Bush, Epa Endangered Species, Endangered Species Regulation, Animals, Bush Endangered Species, Green News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama urged agency heads Tuesday to ignore a Bush administration regulation limiting scientific reviews of project...

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Neutrality Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 03.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Environment, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, New York Times, Lisa Jackson, Cable News, Cnn, Neutrality, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

The Times editorial leaves me with a good feeling about Ms. Jackson, and high hopes for the future effectiveness of the EPA.

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GM Closes High-Performance Division, and Some Muscle Car and Racing History

Steve Parker | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Ferrari, John Z DeLorean, Dodge Viper, Detroit Three, Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Cadillac, Plymouth Road Runner Superbird, Chrysler Cars, Rolls-Royce, General Motors, Pontiac GTO, Jim Wangers, Ford Shelby Mustang, Lamborghini, Jeep, Carroll Shelby, Chevrolet Corvette, Environmental Protection Agency, Saleen, Mopar, Ford Mustang, Bentley, Vw, Maserati, Bmw, George Pipas, Business News
Steve Parker

In yet another sign of these perilous automotive times, GM has closed its High Performance Vehicle Operations unit.

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EPA Expected To Act For First Time On Carbon Dioxide Regulation

New York Times | JOHN M. BRODER | Posted 03.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Carbon Dioxide, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Regulation, Carbon Dioxide Regulation, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame ...

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EPA Near Ruling On Greenhouse Gases

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 03.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Greenhouse Gases, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA Ruling, Global Warming, Green News

WASHINGTON — EPA administrator Lisa Jackson says the agency is moving toward regulating the gases blamed for global warming. In an interview Tu...

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Cleaner Cars -- The Race to the Top?

David Doniger | Posted 03.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Automakers, Gas Prices, Environmental Protection Agency, Gas, Bush Administration, California, Chrysler, General Motors, The New York Times, Epa, Environment, New York Times, Ford, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Auto Manufacturers, Cars, Green News
David Doniger

The new administration understands that higher pollution and mileage standards will help curb global warming, cut our dangerous dependence on oil, and save billions at the pump.

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The Future of Bush's Past

Stuart Blumin | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Herbert Hoover, Healthcare System, Karl Rove, Carbon Emissions, Harry Truman, George W. Bush, Environmentalism, Passing the Buck, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, History, Environmental Protection Agency, Environment and Government, Marshall Plan, Middle East, Nato, Environment, Department of Justice, Health Care System, Health Care, Politics News
Stuart Blumin

History will identify the Bush-Cheney administration as the last holdout of the Age of Carbon, using its crucial eight years to block every effort to end the reign of fossil fuels.

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Compost in the City

Bridget Moloney | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green, Eco, Soil, Compost, Los Angeles, Bon Appetit, Bridget Moloney, Environmental Protection Agency, Urban Living, Cooking, Environment, Environmentalism, Green Cities, Cities, Green News
Bridget Moloney

In L.A., it is illegal to compost things not generated on site. You would think it wouldn't matter, but people have been fined for it.

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Obama: The Environmental President?

Bill Chameides | Posted 02.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Yosemite, Clean Air Act (1990), Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Cap and Trade, Ronald Reagan, Fish & Wildlife Service, George W. Bush, Air Quality, Woodrow Wilson, Endangered Species Act, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, National Park Service, Clean Water Act, Legislation, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Diane Feinstein, Theodore Roosevelt, Water Pollution, Richard Nixon, Montreal Protocol, Kyoto Protocol, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Oceans, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Will Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from Democratic administrations that promised a lot but delivered little on the environment.

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8 Dumb Things George W. Bush Said About The Environment

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Fossil Fuels, Fish, George W. Bush, Environment, Oil, Nuclear, President Bush, Pollution, Natural Gas, Green News

Well, it's just about time to say goodbye to George W. Bush, but before we do, we just have to look back at some of his more memorable quotes about th...

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Lisa Jackson: Music to My Ears

Josh Dorner | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Barbara Boxer, California Waiver, Jeff Merkley, Clean Energy, Lisa Jackson, Sierra Club, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Air Act, Confirmation Hearings, Stephen Johnson, Oregon, Green News
Josh Dorner

EPA Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson was in the dock before the Senate today and I agree with Barbara Boxer that Jackson's answers to many questions were "music to my ears."

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Farewell to An Environmental Tyrant

Steve Fleischli | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Law Enforcement, Zimbabwe, Water, World Summit, United Nations, George W. Bush, Clean Water Act, Environment, Green, Drinking Water, President Bush, Coal, Bush Legacy, Green News
Steve Fleischli

If you're worried about your legacy, don't be. You've left an environmental burden that will persist in our rivers, lakes and oceans for decades to come.

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Who Got Coal in Their Stockings?

Carl Pope | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, TVA Spill, TVA Disaster, Dynegy, Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Clean Coal, Ls Power, Green News
Carl Pope

The massive... spill of coal ash at the Kingston Power plant in Tennessee devastated homes, covered hundreds of acres, and threatens rivers, wildlife, and drinking-water sources.

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Emission Accomplished?

Randall Amster | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, George Bush, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Environment, Bush Legacy, Bush EPA, Climate Change, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Green News
Randall Amster

The third piece of the Bush train-wreck triumvirate in these waning days: increasing pollution... by rolling back Environmental Protection Agency regulations on emissions.

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Unintended Consequences

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 01.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, Bush Endangered Species, Endangered Species and Environment, Coal, Endangered Species Act, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

When the Bush administration decided that it was not going to use the Endangered Species Act to address global warming someone in the bowels of the administration came up with a clever idea.

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Obama Climate Czar Intentionally Erased Digital Trail

Washington Times | Posted 01.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Carol Browner Records, Environmental Protection Agency, Carol Browner, Carol Browner EPA, Browner Trail, Carol Browner Environmental Protection Agency, Browner Epa, Politics News

Don't bother looking for any electronic records of Carol Browner's first stint as a federal government executive. The soon-to-be Obama administration ...

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Salvaging the EPA: Can Jackson Do It?

Jeremy Jacquot | Posted 01.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Climate Change, Bush Administration, Stephen Johnson, Green News
Jeremy Jacquot

It is a testament to the Bush administration's incompetence that, over the span of just eight years, it has transformed the EPA, once the gatekeeper of the nation's environmental policies, into a shadow of its former self.

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Browner's Second Chance: Obama's Green Team Traces Its Roots Back to Gore

David Roberts | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson, Carol Browner Energy Czar, Council on Environmental Quality, Lisa Jackson EPA, Carol Browner, Kathleen Mcginty, Epa, Environment, Nancy Sutley, Obama Administration, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Obama Cabinet, Barack Obama Cabinet, Politics News
David Roberts

When Obama promised change, he wasn't talking about plucking amateurs from outside government. He was talking about a change from incompetence and stagnation to competence and progress.

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Flaccid Apparatchik: The Stephen Johnson Story

David Roberts | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Religion, Environmental Protection Agency, George W. Bush, Epa, Environment, Religion and Politics, Stephen Johnson, Politics News
David Roberts

grist.orgAnyone interested in understanding not only Bush's environmental legacy but the Bush Era simply must carve out the time to read "Smoke ...

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Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator?

Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson Obama Cabinet, Lisa Jackson EPA, Obama Administration, Lisa Jackson, Politics News

The AP reports that Obama intends to name Lisa Jackson, the former Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, as his Envir...

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Carol Browner, Energy Czar?

Huffington Post | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Cabinet, Carol Browner EPA, Environmental Protection Agency, Carol Browner, Carol Browner Energy Czar, Obama Energy Czar, Politics News

AP is reporting that Carol Browner is likely to be named as Obama's energy "czar": President-elect Barack Obama intends to round out his environmenta...

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