Ozone

Gas Industry Spin Can't Cover Up Air, Water Problems Caused by Fracking

Paul Gallay | Posted 04.02.2012

Paul Gallay

Fracking and its impact on public health, in particular our children's health, is a serious issue that calls for swift action -- action that the gas industry repeatedly tries to block.

Better Living Through Chemistry: A Reluctant Scientific and Environmental Hero Moves On

Steve Heilig | Posted 05.16.2012

Steve Heilig

Rowland was a scientific and environmental hero. But as the Times notes, he demurred from that label -- he just thought he was doing what he had to do, given what he'd learned. Everyone alive can thank him for that.

'Green News Report' - March 15, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.15.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: War with ...

Lynne Peeples

Fighting For Air: Childhood Asthma On The Rise As Political Battles Threaten Clean Air Rules

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.14.2012

Asthma was once just an academic concern for Sylvia Brandt, who has spent years studying the chronic lung condition and calculating its tragic toll. N...

'Green News Report' - March 13, 2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.13.2012

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Sen. Inho...

Paying More Attention to Global Weather

Diane Tuft | Posted 05.05.2012

Diane Tuft

As a photographer that specializes in capturing the effects of ultraviolet light on the landscape, I seek locations in the world that have an abundance of ultraviolet light and as a result, I am extremely aware of the occurrence, prevalence, and abundance of ozone depletion.

Wall Street Journal's Portrait of the Young Climate Scientist

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.01.2012

Bill Chameides

I guarantee that most scientists, myself included, would love to make their reputation by refuting the whole notion of global warming. We have tried and have concluded that we can't.

Dan Froomkin

Auction 2012: Energy Lobby Finds Power In Money And Fear

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 01.31.2012

Auction 2012 is a weeklong series in collaboration with "The Dylan Ratigan Show" and United Republic. When George W. Bush overruled scientists at t...

Mercury Ruling: Waiting For the EPA

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.19.2012

Marcia G. Yerman

As a writer for Moms Clean Air Force, I was eagerly waiting to hear the December 16 announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency on their new...

Ordinary Citizens Fight Big Coal in The Last Mountain

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 02.11.2012

Marcia G. Yerman

Featuring citizen activists fighting for clean air and water against entrenched interests and corporate dollars, the documentary combines backstory, statistics, and human interest to explain more fully the narrative of where our electricity comes from.

Senate GOP Offers a Program for More Pollution, Not a Jobs Plan

Frances Beinecke | Posted 12.21.2011

Frances Beinecke

Protecting families from the pollutants that cause asthma, neurological disorders, cardiac disease, and premature death has put millions of Americans to work. We can create even more jobs by making our air and water even safer.

The Ungreening of Obama

John Feffer | Posted 12.21.2011

John Feffer

Running for president, Obama promised to paint the town green. But he is now making a devil's bargain over jobs. And his latest decisions put him at greater risk of losing both an activist base and the ever mercurial swing voters.

Before Obama Retreat on Ozone, EPA Chief Warned of Illnesses and Deaths

Corbin Hiar | Posted 12.12.2011

Corbin Hiar

When President Obama retreated from a tougher stance on smog last month, his Environmental Protection Agency chief had formally concluded that the existing standard endangered thousands of Americans, including children and people with respiratory ailments.

Lynne Peeples

TRAIN Wreck: Greens Urge Senate To Derail House Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.23.2011

The U.S. House of Representatives forwarded a bill on Friday that environmental leaders warn would undermine the Environmental Protection Agency's abi...

Happy Ozone Day: Looking to the Past for a Stable Climate Future

Dan Worth | Posted 11.16.2011

Dan Worth

As we stand a little over three months away from the end of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period, the world finds itself with no internationally binding agreement.

Obama: Did I Say I'd Restore Science to Its 'Rightful Place?'

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 11.15.2011

Shawn Lawrence Otto

President Obama pledged to restore science to its rightful place -- but he didn't say just what he thought that rightful place to be.

Jennifer Bendery

Longing For Rahm: Democrats Still Adjusting To Life With Bill Daley

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 11.15.2011

WASHINGTON -- Ask a congressional Democrat about the job Bill Daley is doing as President Barack Obama's chief of staff, and chances are you'll be met...

President Obama's Decision on Ozone: Bad Policy and Bad Politics

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 11.08.2011

Heather Taylor-Miesle

Where is the hope and change that we were promised in 2008? I suspect that a lot of people who stood in long lines to cast a vote for the President Obama are asking themselves the same question.

Smog Alert: Polluters Breathing Easier, People Not

Wendy Gordon | Posted 11.08.2011

Wendy Gordon

The Obama administration has been on the right side of the law and the science on strong clean air protections which are now under attack in Congress. So why is it yielding to industry pressure on this important standard?

Obama's Ozone Capitulation: Celebrated by Conservatives and Denounced by Liberals

Josh Nelson | Posted 11.07.2011

Josh Nelson

President Obama's decision to undercut EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson by cancelling a long-overdue update to smog standards was a mistake on both the ...

Lynne Peeples

Retreat On Ozone Legislation Leaves Standard Based on 14-Year-Old Science

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 11.02.2011

"Ridiculous." "Illegal." "Dangerous." President Barack Obama's decision to shelve a proposed tightening of ozone standards has prompted a deluge of an...

Will Stricter EPA Standards Really Kill Jobs?

The Huffington Post | James Gerken | Posted 10.10.2011

How important is clean air, really? There is a polarizing debate taking place between environmentalists and industry lobbyists over the Environment...

Lynne Peeples

EPA Postpones Public Health Protections, Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.25.2011

On July 11, just days before a record heat wave steamrolled through Washington, D.C., triggering "Code Orange" and "Code Red" smog alerts, the White H...

Lynne Peeples

Heat Wave And Air Pollution Create A Double-Whammy Of Health Risks

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.21.2011

New Hampshire and Maine are probably not the first places that come to mind when you think of air pollution. In fact, cities from both states were rec...

The Toxic Substances Control Act's Toxic Baddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.14.2011

Bill Chameides

Of the some 80,000 chemicals manufactured and used in the United States, the EPA has issued regulations to control just five "existing" and four "new" chemicals. Today, we'll learn a little about each of them.