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In the Name of Rosa Parks: Arrest of 81-Year-Old on Fast, Mourning Mountaintop Removal

Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Dirty Coal, Human Rights, White House, Green Jobs, Civil Rights, President Obama, Mountaintop Removal, cop15, Rosa Park, Coal, Christmas Tree, Al Gore, Green News
Jeff Biggers

On the anniversary of Rosa Parks' historic act of civil disobedience, an 81-year-old veteran and anti-mountaintop removal activist was arrested by law enforcement authorities.

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Michael Bennet, Betsy Markey Claim Inadequate Public Engagement In Western Slope Uranium Permit

AP | By Judith Kohler | Posted 12.01.2009 | Denver

Read More: Powertech USA, Epa, Michael Bennet, Betsy Markey, Colorado Uranium Mine, Uranium Mine, Denver News

DENVER - Two members of the state's congressional delegation sent a letter Monday urging federal officials to involve the public as they consider any ...

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Verizon Wireless Violates Environmental Regulations In 655 Facilities, To Pay Nearly Half A Million In Fines

Posted 11.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Verizon Environmental Regulations, Verizon, Verizon Environmental Penalties, Epa, Green News

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 ...

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Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Superfund Polluter Pays Act, H.R. 832, Superfund Sites, Coal-Fired Power Plant, Environmental Health, Mercury, Coal Ash, Birth Defects, Love Canal, Pcbs, Pollution, Children's Health, Superfund, Heavy Metals, Cercla, Green News
Deirdre Imus

Corporations need to take economic and social responsibility for their business practices. Environmental pollution is a major health threat with enormous economic consequences.

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Interior Department Comes Out Strong (Rhetorically) on Mountaintop Removal

Rob Perks | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Coalmining, Interior, Appalachia, Fillrule, Salazar, Fill, Mountaintopremoval, Dirtycoal, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Climate Change, Green News
Rob Perks

Interior doing its job by pledging to crack down on mountaintop removal? That's certainly welcome news. Aye, but there's a rub.

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EPA: Uranium From Polluted British Petroleum Mine Found In Nevada Water Wells

AP | SCOTT SONNER | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Bp, Yerington, Us Bureau of Land Management, Mining, Epa, Atlantic Richfield, Uranium, British Petroleum, Nevada, Yerington Paiute Tribe, Nevada Department Of, Uranium Mine, Hydreology, Uranium Mines, New Mexico, Green News

YERINGTON, Nev. — Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air sm...

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First Do No Harm: Connecting The Dots Between Environmentalism And Health Care Reform

John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Water Pollution, Toxics, Water, Epa, Clean Water Act, Environment, Health Care Reform, Mercury, Hate Speech, Air Pollution, Pollution, Health Care, Green News
John DeCock

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?

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Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

Carl Pope | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Co2, Kerry-Boxer, Lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute, John Kerry, Api, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.

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Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Usda, Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, Humane Society, Tom Vilsack, Factory Farms, Obama, Pollution, Cafos, Eric Holder, Clean Water Act, Green News
David Kirby

Are animal factories here to stay? Whatever the Obama team decides to do -- or not do -- could have a huge impact on the way we raise food animals in America for decades to come.

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Half of All Fish In U.S. Lakes Are Toxic

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Pbts, Health, Fish, Epa, Mercury, Pregnancy, Coal-Fired-Power-Plants, Lakes, Pcbs, Wellness, Living News
Wendy Gordon

A new EPA study found 268 bio-accumulative and toxic chemicals--notably mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls and dioxins and furans--in fish from a national sampling of 500 lakes and reservoirs.

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The Future of Factory Farming: Barack Obama and the "Rural Agenda"

David Kirby | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Epa, Usda, Animal Welfare, Water Pollution, Cafo, Factory Farms, Obama, Air Pollution, Rural Development, Food, Living News
David Kirby

If elected, Obama promised, he would convene a major national summit on rural issues within 100 days of taking office. Across the country, rural activists held their breath.

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Clearcutting, Coal, Center for Public Integrity, West Virginia, Campaign, Coal Industry, Climate, Grassroots, Coal River Mountain, Climate Change, Virginia, Coal Lobby, Mountaintop Removal, Unions, Environmentalism, JP Morgan Chase, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, Wto, Mother Jones, Labor, Clean Energy, Congress, Green, Global Warming, Government, Mountains, Epa, Harlan County, Mines, Bush Administration, Blair Mountain, Tennessee, Climate Action Partnership, President Obama, Washington, Obama, Coal Czar, Bush, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Naacp, Appalachia, Workers, Climate Justice, Office of Surface Mining, Civil Disobedience, Kentucky, Henry Waxman, Forests, Department of the Interior, Dirty Coal, Green Jobs, Wall Street, Astroturfing, Coal Mining, Duke Energy, Green News, Mining, Water, Clean Coal, Osr, Appalachian Mountains, Activism, Protest, Massey Energy, Green News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

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.

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Facing Coal Hard Facts at Interior Department

Rob Perks | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Coalmining, Interior, Appalachia, Dirtyenergy, Lisajackson, Salazar, Mountaintopremoval, Obama, Doi, Osm, Mtr, Mountaintopmining, Pizarchik, Green News
Rob Perks

The Interior Department could -- and should -- have published proposed changes right away and proceeded straight to public input.

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One Year Later: Obama's Most Defining Environmental Moments (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein/Eve Solomon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Drilling in Alaska, Obama Environment, Lisa Jackson, Copenhagen 2009, Steven Chu, Slidepoll, One Year Later, Epa, Climate Change, Barack Obama, Green News

As part of HuffPost's One Year Later series, we're looking back at many of the significant moments since Obama was elected. After 8 years of an admini...

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Heads Up! Massey Energy Now Blasting Coal River Mountain

Jerry Cope | Posted 10.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Appalachia, Ceq, Epa, President Obama, Daryl Hannah, James Hansen, Coal River Mountain, Mountain Top Removal, Obama Administration, Bo-Webb, Wvdep, Coal-Country, Coal-River, Michael-Shnayerson, Green News
Jerry Cope

The forecast in Coal River, W.V. now calls for heavy boulders and flying debris. Climate scientist James Hansen has declared it "ground zero in the fight against climate change".

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Gas Drilling in New York Comes to a Head

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 10.26.2009 | New York

Read More: Energy, Epa, Fracking, Environmentalism, Green Living, Energy Policy, Fracking Fluid, Natural Gas, New York News
Andrew Reinbach

Cooperstown, NY: Gas drilling and the forces behind it are massed to exploit the rich deposits of upstate New York, in the process trampling on the basic idea of government.

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Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!

John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Packaging, Waste, Trash, Climate Change, No Impact Week, Oceans, Water, Epa, Green News
John DeCock

The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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What's Cleaner: Used Toilet Water or the Chesapeake Bay?

Judd Legum | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Elijah Cummings, Cardin, Epa, Howard Ernst, Water Quality, Chesapeake Bay, Green News
Judd Legum

Below is a brief excerpt from a conversation with Prof. Howard Ernst I recorded. He reveals how he answered a question you wish didn't need asking -- What's cleaner: used toilet water or the Chesapeake Bay?

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Walking Down the Avenue

Carl Pope | Posted 10.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Bill, Kerry-Boxer, James Inhofe, Climate Change, John Kerry, Epa, Waxman-Markey, Polar Bears, Green News
Carl Pope

While we should applaud the Administration for doing what the law and common sense require to protect the polar bear, we mustn't lose sight of the larger remaining challenges.

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Great Lakes Shipping Lobby To Spar With EPA

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, Clean Air, Lobbyblog, Epa, Business News

Shipping companies operating from the Great Lakes region are launching a lobbying effort to block the Environmental Protection Agency from imposing ne...

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In An Important Step, U.S. Designates Polar Bear Critical Habitat

Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil, Drilling, Polarbear, Polarbears, Biogems, Arctic, Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Epa, Environmentalism, Endangered Species Act, Critical Habitat, Green News
Andrew Wetzler

If approved, the proposal would be the largest designation of critical habitat in the history of the Endangered Species Act.

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BP Slapdown: EPA Really is Back on the Job!

Henry Henderson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Lisa Jackson, Bp, Nrdc, Northwest Indiana, Epa, British Petroleum, Bp Whiting Refinery, Indiana, Coal Industry, Lake Michigan, Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection Agency, Atrazine, Water Pollution, Asthma, Air Pollution, Chicago News
Henry Henderson

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.

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Congress Gets in the Act on Coal Ash

Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Kingston, Epa, Congress, Tennessee, Coalspill, Coalash, Tennesseevalleyauthority, Dirty Coal, TVA Coal Ash Pond Disaster, Green News
Rob Perks

Kudos to Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) for bird-dogging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the need to regulate pollution from coal-fired power plants.

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EPA to Revoke Permit for Infamous WV Mountaintop Removal Mine

Rob Perks | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Appalachia, Obama, Mtr, West Virginia, Mountain Top Mining, Spruce Mine, Mountain Top Removal, Dirty Coal, EPA Veto, Coal Mining, Green News
Rob Perks

The EPA is taking unprecedented action to bring to an end the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history of West Virginia.

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How To Choose Healthy Fish

cnn.com | Denise Mann | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmon, Omega-3-Fatty-Acids, Health, Epa, Fish, Mercury, Heart Health, Fda, Tuna, Overfishing, Living News

Salmon, tuna, and other fish are loaded with heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, so they must be good for you, right? Not so fast--some types of fish h...

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