A federal judge in Florida, in a stinging rebuke to both the state and to the EPA, ruled that the agency had turned a "blind eye" as Florida broke its own rules committing it to restore the ecosystem.
AP | SAMANTHA YOUNG | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Five states intend to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it does not act soon to reduce pollution from ships, aircr...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 08.02.2008 | Green
Ashcroft claims waterboarding isn't torture, Green energy sector jobs surge, Ford offers more fuel efficient vehicles in the U.S., and the White House tries to define contraception as abortion.
New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
Jason K. Burnett, Washington's environmental whistle-blower du jour, is an example of a once rare, now almost common, phenomenon: a political appointe...
Carl Pope | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
The EPA announced that an average American's life is worth $6.9 million today, vs. $8.5 million five years ago. The less a life is worth, the weaker the safety standards warranted to protect it.
Steve Parker | Posted 07.19.2008 | Green
Many news reports the past two days have been about Toyota's intention to build the next-generation gas/electric hybrid Prius at a factory now under c...
Graham Hill | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
Who was the guy that said living eco means sacrifice? It's not about living in a cave and shaking your head at the 'modern day luxuries,' folks. Getti...
Olivia Zaleski | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green
Don't we all deserve clean air? The answer seems obvious, but in the predominantly Latino, Black and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of Southern Los An...
New York Times | Henry Fountain | Posted 07.16.2008 | Home
Clean Up Mercury Spill With Cloth With "Nanoselenium" Cloth Incandescent light bulbs are on the way out by 2012, thanks to Congress, meaning for now ...
Carl Pope | Posted 07.15.2008 | Green
A California judge has ordered the state to explain why PFOAs should not be added to a list of regulated chemicals -- it's in popular consumer and industrial products like Teflon.
Washington Post | Juliet Eilperin | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green
White House officials last December sought to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from submitting a proposed rule that would limit greenhouse-gas...
Washington Post | Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson | Posted 06.29.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration yesterday invoked executive privilege and refused to turn over key documents sought by a House investigative committee, escala...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency initially supported giving California and other states full or partial permission t...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is undermining the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to determine health dangers of toxic chemicals...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson decided to modestly tighten smog standards, a decision directly "overru...
AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The air in hundreds of U.S. counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the government said Wednesday, ordering a multibillion-dollar ...
AP | Samantha Young | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
California sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for denying its first-in-the-nation greenhouse gas limits on cars, trucks and SU...
CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to sue the federal government over its decision not to allow a California plan to reduce greenhouse gas em...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Bush administration's rejection of state efforts to tighten rules on greenhouse gas emissions touched off a flurry of counterattacks Thursday. Dem...
AP | Erica Werner | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Congressional Democrats on Thursday announced an investigation of the Environmental Protection Agency's refusal to let California implement its tailpi...
LA Times | Richard Simon and Janet Wilson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration Wednesday denied California's bid to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, dealing a blow to the state's attempt...
Wall Street Journal | MIKE SPECTOR and CHRISTOPHER CONKEY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The Bush administration blocked California's plan to put tighter limits on automobile tailpipe emissions, handing a victory to the auto industry on th...
AP | Samantha Young | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
California sued the federal government on Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation's first greenhouse gas emission s...
Carl Pope | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green