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Water Contamination In Wyoming Could Be From Natural Gas Drilling

ProPublica | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Contamination, Water, Epa, Natural Gas Contamination, Natural Gas Drilling, Contaminated Drinking Water, Drinking Water, Natural Gas, Green News

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination [1] near the ranching town of Pavillion, Wyo., have found that at least three...

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Canadian Tar Sands or US Biofuel -- Guess Which One the US Government Prefers

Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Epa, Oil, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ethanol, Petroleum, Tar Sands Oil, Canada Pipeline, Renewable Energy, Canada Tar Sands Oil, Green News
Bob Dinneen

Just when we thought policymakers were serious about climate change, the State Department approves construction of a new petroleum pipeline with the sole purpose of importing tar sands oil to the U.S.

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Fearless Tree-Sit in Coal Blasting Area Calls Out Failed Regulations

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Tree, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Blasting, Nancy Sutley, Mountaintop Removal, Lisa Jackson, Ken Salazar, Ceq, Forests, Coal, Osmre, Green News
Jeff Biggers

In a stunning blow to mountaintop removal blasting operations in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia this morning, two fearless protesters scaled massive trees and unfurled banners.

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Danielle Ivory Discusses The EPA's Failure To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water On "Democracy Now" (VIDEO)

Huffingtion Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Video, Atrazine, Green News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund recently published an article revealing that the EPA had failed to inform customers about the presence of a wid...

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EPA Fails To Inform Public About Weed-Killer In Drinking Water (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Atrazine, Weed-Killer in Drinking Water, Weed-Killer, Epa, EPA Atrazine, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

One of the nation's most widely-used herbicides has been found to exceed federal safety limits in drinking water in four states, but water customers h...

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Actualities: Weed Killers in Your Water

Dan Agin | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Epa, Atrazine, Weed Killers, Fetal Development, Environmental Pollution, Green News
Dan Agin

The basic question for toxicologists and pediatricians (and for the EPA) is whether there is indeed such a thing as a "safe" concentration of a toxic substance for an embryo or fetus. My own view is no.

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The Clock has Started Ticking on Mountaintop Removal Mining Permits

Bruce Nilles | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Mountain-Top-Removal-Obama-Epa-Coal-Mining-Environment, Mountain-Top-Removal, Mining Appalachia, Epa, Green News
Bruce Nilles

We've just learned that the clock has started ticking on more than 80 new mountaintop removal coal mining permits in Appalachia. The EPA may start approving these permits within the next month.

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If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: White House, Norml, Marijuana, Obama, Pot, California, Epa, Cannabis, Lung Cancer, Ucla, Alcohol, Brown University, Thc, Cancer, Legalization, Tashkin, Armentano, Living News
Paul Armentano

Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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When It Comes to Land Use Change -- Look at Oil

Bob Dinneen | Posted 09.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Tar Sands, Oil, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Epa, Environmentla Protection Agency, Green News
Bob Dinneen

While the indirect, ripple impacts of our dependence on petroleum fuels are often well hidden, to ignore them altogether is irresponsible policy and questionable science.

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Could Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in Vaccines Cause Autism?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology, Environmental Health, Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, Toxics, Pediatrics, Chemicals, Detox, Vaccines, Toxins, Epa, Mercury, Environment, Bpa, Autism, Fire Retardants, Children's Health, Environmental Chemicals, Phthalates, Edcs, Living News
Deirdre Imus

Like it or not, vaccines are likely the largest source of one-time exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in early infant development.

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Green News Report - August 11, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevy Volt, Glaciers, Biofuels, Epa, Arctic Ice Melt, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Green News Report, Arizona, Toxic Waste Dumping, Arctic, Drought, National Security, Hybrid Cars, Water, Dry Cleaners, Sarah Palin, Green News, Gas Mileage, Climate Change, Alaska, Solar Power, Global Warming, Solar Thermal Power, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

Is climate change a threat to national security?

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VIDEO UPDATE: Coalfield Uprising Grows: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Premoval, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, West Virginia, Renewable Energy, Department of Interior, Coal, Osm, Wvdep, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare.

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GM: New Chevy Volt To Get 230 Miles Per Gallon

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Epa, General Motors, Chevy Volt, Electric Cars, New Volt, Gm, Chevrolet Volt, New Chevy Volt, Rechargeable Electric Cars, 230 Mpg, Gm 230 Mpg, Environmental Protection Agency, Volt 230 Mpg, Electric Car, Sustainability, Green Technology, Business News

WARREN, Mich. — General Motors said Tuesday its Chevrolet Volt electric car could get 230 mpg in city driving, making it the first American vehi...

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Environmental Groups and Chemical Industry Agree on Regulating Toxics?

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Tsca, Frank Lautenberg, Kids-Safe-Chemical-Act, The American Chemistry Council, Epa, Toxins, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

Have the historical competing interests finally converged? Can the economy and the environment be BFF?

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Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Senate Hearing, Mountaintop Removal, President Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Osm, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Obama's administration's OSM nomination of Pizarchik, the seemingly good-natured and well-meaning Pennsylvania Director of the Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, is a colossal error.

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Clunker Law: What You Need to Know

Steve Parker | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Congress, Toyota, Cash for Clunkers Website, Chrysler, Epa, Cash for Clunkers 2009, Washington DC, Cars, Ford, Mpg, Honda Civic, Clunkers, Clunker Bill, Cash for Clunkers, Cadillac Escalade, Nhtsa, Business News
Steve Parker

Check the (current) status of your car, and if you're interested in the program and your vehicle is now eligible, get down to a new car dealer fast, before DC steps in again to "help" or "clarify."

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Federal Reserve Has Lowest Job Approval Rating; CDC, NASA Top List: Poll

Gallup | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gallup Poll, Nasa, Cia, Internal Revenue Service, Epa, Fbi, Fda, Gallup, Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, Central Intelligence Association, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Federal Agencies, Irs, Federal Reserve, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Dcd, Politics News

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...

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Abetting Historicide: Does Nancy Sutley's Regulatory Banter Cover Up Crimes Against Coalfield Residents?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Department of Homeland Security, Dirty Coal, Council on Environmental Quality, Mountaintop Removal, Edward Abbey, President Barack Obama, Nancy Sutley, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Are Obama's well-meaning but irresolute environmental administrators abetting the crimes of human rights violations and historicide?

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Summer Reading: Manmade Disaster II

Seth Bauer | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, James Inhofe, Dust Bowl, Climate Change, James Hansen, Fox News, Climate Change Skeptics, John S. Theon, Global Warming, Timothy Egan, Alan Carlin, Green News
Seth Bauer

Climate change skeptics were on my mind this week as I read, The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan's book on the Dust Bowl. Now Sen. James Inhofe is helping to write the sequel.

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Grading a Climate Bill, Part 2

William S. Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Energy, Waxman-Markey, Barbara Boxer, Clean Coal, Climate Change, Copenhagen, Renewable Energy, Greenhouse Gases, Congress, Obama, Green Energy, Energy Policy, Clean Air Act, Nuclear Power, Green News
William S. Becker

It is perverse public policy to tell the nation's principal environmental watchdog it can't do anything about pollutants that have been officially declared a threat to public health and welfare.

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Conyers Ethics Probe Sought By Conservative Group

The Detroit News | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Conyers, Conyers Ethics, Representative Conyers, Monica Conyers, Monica-Conyers-Bribery, Epa, Detroit, Conyers Ethics Probe, The Landmark Legal Foundation, Michigan, John Conyers, Politics News

A conservative group asked the House ethics committee today to investigate whether U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Detroit, possibly violated ethics rules a...

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The Failure of Democracy in West Virginia: Redefining "Alternative" Energy

Jerry Cope | Posted 08.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Coal-to-Liquids, Carbon Emissions, Alternative Energy, Greenhouse Gases, West Virginia, Carbon Credits, Political Corruption, Climate Change, Democracy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Joe Manchin, Coal, Renewable Energy, Clean Energy, SB 297, Energy Portfolio Standard Bill, Epa, Obama Administration, Appalachia, Green News
Jerry Cope

Alternative energy is a standard reference to energy sources that are not carbon based. But in West Virginia, many of the designated "alternative" energy sources contribute not only significantly more GHG emissions than the dirtiest conventional coal fired plants, they emit toxic pollutants as well.

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Obama Officials Urge Senate To Act On Climate Bill

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pollution, Climate Change, Steven Chu, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Enivorment, Senate, Agriculture Department, Interior Department, Carbon Emissions, Environment and Public Works Committee, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Saying global warming poses unprecedented threats to Americans' way of life, four of President Barack Obama's top environmental and...

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Use the Precautionary Principle

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: White House Garden, White House, Obama White House, Lead, Michelle Obama, Eddie Gehman Kohan, The Obama Girls, Gardening, Epa, Green News, Lead Poising, Sewage Sludge, Obama Administration, Organic Gardening, Organic Food, National Park Service, Toxic Chemicals, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

At the White House, the precautionary principle should be used: lead contaminated soil should be removed and replaced with organic compost. That would be the safe and truly organic way.

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The Revolution Will Not Be (Petrochemically) Fertilized

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Endocrine Disruptors, Slow Food, Woodbridge Winery, Nicholas Kristof, Will Allen, Stephen Colbert, Roger Doiron, Josh Viertel, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Growing tomatoes has replaced throwing tomatoes as a form of protest; millions of Americans are looking to opt out of our toxic food chain by trying to grow some of their own food this year.

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