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Jerry Cope | Posted 12.02.2009 | Green
I think that we have passed the level at which you're going to get effects that we do not want or that we want our children to have to bear.
Special To Huffington Post | Joseph Huff-Hannon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green
November 30, 2009 - A phalanx of NYPD officers on foot and aboard several police vans surrounded the marchers as they walked up Sixth Avenue in the co...
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago
The news was very bad on Friday when state and Federal agencies admitted that tests show invasive Asian carp have evaded an electrical barrier intende...
S. Jacob Scherr | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact
Last year, NRDC launched its Revive a Rainforest campaign to restore forests in Costa Rica. With the help and generosity of our many online supporters, the first stage of our Revive a Rainforest campaign was a true success.
Marta Hallowell | Posted 11.25.2009 | New York
The developer Extell is quietly pushing for big changes to its Riverside Center project, enclosed by 59th and 61st Streets, West End Avenue and Riverside Boulevard.
Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago
The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.
James Boyce | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
In a slow-moving industry, Clean Energy Common Sense is an anomaly. Frances Beinecke went from book contract to #4 on the Amazon Non-Fiction Bestsellers list in a little over 60 days.
Paul McRandle | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green
Food is the focus of this fourth day of the eight-day "week" and if you find shopping at the farmer's market no challenge, take on foraging for your meals instead.
Robert Redford | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
Two centuries ago, Thomas Paine wrote, "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense." That's precisely the approach Beinecke has taken in her stand against climate change.
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.
Molly Greenwood | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
Looking at the garbage and recycling bins under my own kitchen sink yesterday, it struck me that most of the stuff I end up throwing away consists of packaging.
Shravya Reddy | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
For an environmentalist in America wishing to minimize his or her footprint, New York City is one of the better choices -- less sprawl, more compact living, and a public transit system.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Obama, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar all deserve enormous credit for taking this step, which wasn't easy and is sure to irritate our friend to the north, Canada.
Gina Solomon | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green
Almost ten years after Julia Roberts played the title role in the movie, the saga about chromium contamination in drinking water continues.
New York Times | AD MOUAWAD and ANDREW C. REVKIN | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to com...
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.
Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Whitman says she would place a moratorium on AB-32 by executive order. It's hard to imagine a more effective way to choke off the burgeoning clean energy economy.
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
Yesterday, a judge gave the Obama Administration a chance to start over in protecting wolves. I hope the president seizes it.
Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
The Chesapeake Bay watershed spans portions of six states and more than 60,000 square miles. The only way to clean up the Bay is to get all of those states to work at home to clean up the streams.
Rob Perks | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green
No amount of spinning will help Verizon Wireless. But the company can dig itself out of this hole simply by admitting its mistake and immediately withdrawing its support for the rally.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green
Glenn Beck's controversial track record pales in comparison to Massey Energy's mining operations in Appalachia, which have literally displaced American citizens from their native homes.
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
A burst of developments Monday considerably raised the profile of the latest attempt by polluting industries to thwart environmental legislation through fraudulent mailings to Congress.
NY Daily News | By Irving Dejohn and Christina Boyle | Posted 08.30.2009 | New York
A new report card on New York's coastline says Orchard and Manhattan beaches are among the dirtiest in the city. South Beach on Staten Island and K...
Chicago Tribune | Kristen Schorsch | Posted 08.29.2009 | Chicago
A Winnetka beach topped the list of Cook County's most polluted beaches in 2008, according to a national water testing report issued today....
Laurie David | Posted 12.04.2009 | Green