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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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Biofuels from Microalgae (Part 1)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: UN Biofuels Assessment Report, Microbial Biofuels, Gasoline, Biofuels, Algae, Pollution, Crude Oil, Global Warming, Department of Energy, Biofuels Assessment Report, United Nations Environment Program, Biojet Fuel, Green News
Patrick Takahashi

I begun to be involved with growing algae in raceways a third of a century ago, and from then until now, have observed that federal funding was spotty and mostly non-existent.

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Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Environment, Plastic, Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Pollution, Ocean, Green News
Wallace J Nichols

Due to our inability and slowness to adequately describe and respond to the threat, certain areas of our coasts and oceans have become overwhelmed by plastic.

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Cap And Trade: Get The Lowdown

Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Co2 Emissions, Co2, Cap and Trade, Climate Change, Carbon Emissions, Pollution, Transparency, Green News

Recent surveys about public perceptions of climate change and knowledge of cap-and-trade in the United States show that a lot of people out there have...

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Dominican Republic Town's Birth Defects Caused By US Coal Company

miamiherald.com | By FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Dominican Republic, Dirty Coal, Birth Defects, Coal, Toxic Waste Dumping, Pollution, Green News

A civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware charges that toxic levels of waste dumped at the Arroyo Barril port has made people nearby sick. After yea...

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Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: Progressive Book Club, Al Gore, Book Reviews, An Inconvenient Truth, Green, Global Warming, Gore Solutions Summit, Pollution, Al Gore an Inconvenient Truth, Environment, Our Choice, Al Gore Book Review, Environmental, Environmental Problems, Fossil Fuels, Al Gore Book, Going Green, Books, Al Gore Our Choice, One Year Later, Books News

Bill McKibben Progressive Book Club Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis By Al Gore Rodale, 2009 There's been a certain amount of debate ...

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Chamber of Commerce M.I.A.! Chevron Takes the Heat!

The Yes Men | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Chamber of Commerce, Pollution, Activism, Lobbying, Oil Companies, The Yes Men Fix the World, The Yes Men, Green News
The Yes Men

Chevron is a target of citizen protests in California, across the United States and around the world because of Chevron's role in climate destruction, public health abuse, and wars for oil.

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Chevron Corporate Espionage Campaign Backfires; Makes The Insider Look Like Peter Pan (UPDATED)

Howard Glaser | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Chevron, Charles James, Big Oil, Chevron Ecuador, Amazon Rainforest, Pollution, Chevron Human Rights, Green News
Howard Glaser

When it comes to corporate conspiracy tales, The Insider's recounting of Big Tobacco's skullduggery in covering up the addictive qualities of nicotine set a high bar.

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Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Carbon Emissions, Biofuels, Biofuel, Fossil Fuels, Green Technology, Airplanes, Airports, Iata, Pollution, Airlines, International Air Transport Association, Global Warming, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Friday it would approve biofuels for commercial flights by 2010 in a bid to drastically reduce...

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Vanishing Coral Reefs (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Nature, Biodiversity, Runoff, Coral Bleaching, Pollution, Coral Reefs, Ecotourism, Climate Change, Green News

In honor of the underwater meeting that the Maldives' Cabinet held on Saturday to raise awareness about the threat of climate change, HuffPost Green t...

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Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Freegan, Recycling, Energy, Dumpster Diving, Landfills, Waste, Composting, Trash, Do It Yourself, Pollution, Lower Your Impact, Garbage, Recycled Paper, Green News
Bill Chameides

Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. We Americans produce a lot of trash -- by some estimates about 250 million tons of the stuff per year.

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Bloomberg and Booker Agree: We Need Cleaner Trucks at Our Ports

Rich Kassel | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Sustainability, Newark, Diesel, Pollution, Trucks, Change to Win, Ironbound, Port Pollution, Cory Booker, Red Hook, New York City, James Hoffa, Michael Bloomberg, Los Angeles, New York News
Rich Kassel

The mayors teamed up with Teamsters President James P. Hoffa to endorse federal legislation that would enable ports around the nation to adopt local green-growth programs to reduce air pollution.

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EPA Vows Better Enforcement Of Clean Water Act

nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Quality, Law Enforcement, Pollution, Water Pollution, Clean Water Act, Epa, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the ag...

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Taking on No Impact Week from Abroad: Will Living in Peru Make It Harder?

Levi Novey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: No Impact Week, Walking, No Impact Man, Peru, HuffPost No Impact Week, Cars, No Impact Experiment, No Impact Project, Outdoor Exercise, Recycling, Sustainability, Climate Change, Pollution, Green News
Levi Novey

After looking at the No Impact Week guide, I felt ashamed that living abroad had become a sort of false crutch upon which I could hang my environmental credibility.

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Carl Pope | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Pollution, Clean Coal, Saudi Arabia, Coal, Oil, Green News
Carl Pope

Don't even get me started on the issue of the pollution that results from mining coal, or the problems that stem from its mercury and carbon dioxide pollution.

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1950s vs. 2000s: The Drive to Supersize

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Population, Energy, Energy Star, Energy Efficiency, Low Iimpact, Electricity, Statistically Speaking, Pollution, No Impact, Green News
Bill Chameides

In the 1950s the average American consumed roughly 2,200 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year; today that number has grown to roughly 13,800 kilowatt-hours per year.

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Cadmium Pollution Kills Human Fetal Sex Organ Cells

Dan Agin | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Fetal Damage, Cadmium Pollution, Pollution, Apoptosis, Green News
Dan Agin

One of the most insidious pollutants in our environment is the heavy metal element Cadmium. An important new study is the first to report on the effects of Cadmium on human fetal sex organ tissues.

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Watching The World's Water Quality And Quantity

Lissa Coffey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Population, Lissa Coffey, Global, Water Pollution, Water, The Giving Life, Sustainability, Conservation, Crisis, Green Living, Matt Damon, Pollution, Sanitation, Living News
Lissa Coffey

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 884 million people are without adequate drinking water, and 2.5 billion people are without adequate water for sanitation.

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How Cities Drive Plants Extinct

BBC | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Plants, New York City Parks, Herbicide, Urban Plants, Cities, City Parks, Vegetation, Pollution, Green News

An international team of botanists has compared extinction rates of plants within 22 cities around the world. Both Singapore and New York City in the ...

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EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home

Read More: Environment, Epa, Greenhouse Gases, Carbon Emissons, Pollution, Climate Change, Home News

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency is taking its first steps to control climate-changing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, factories and refineries.

The EPA proposed a rule Wednesday that would require polluters to install the best available technology to capture greenhouse gases whenever a facility is significantly changed or newly constructed. The rule applies to any industrial plant that emits at least 25,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year.

When the rule is final, the EPA said operators of as many 14,000 sources of pollution would have to get additional permits. The EPA action, announced the same day as a climate bill was introduce in the Senate, could put new pressure on Congress to pass legislation to avoid the federal rules.

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Kyle Orton best NFL quarterback and other misinterpretations of data

Big Green Boulder | Big Green Boulder | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Environment, Global, Climate, Warming, Study, Denver, Energy, Data, Pollution, Home News

If you are a Coloradan and concerned about the environment, firstly, thanks for reading and, secondly, we're worried that you may have c...

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I Love Denver, But This Has Got to Change

Wade Norris | Posted 09.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Rocky Mountains, Aces, Denver Broncos, Environmental-Refugees, Colorado, Denver, Pollution, Pine Beetles, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Mile High City, Denver News
Wade Norris

What if a city's reputation for pollution was reflected in the sports team's names? Instead of the Denver Broncos would we be the Denver Bronchitis?

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Fuel Uses Education and Inspiration to Make Impassioned Case for Green Energy

Josh Garrett | Posted 09.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Oil Refining, Sundance Film Festival, Alternative Energy, Biofuel, Richard Branson, Movie, Neil Young, Film, Pollution, Crude Oil, Algae Biofuel, Fuel, Biomass, Henry Ford, Contamination, Oil, Documentary, Josh Tickell, Algae, Willie Nelson, Green News
Josh Garrett

Fuel does not chastise Americans for using petroleum products, but instead shows that a post-oil nation is well within our grasp -- all we need to do is extend our hands.

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Feds to Release Plan to Clean Up Chesapeake Bay

Nancy Stoner | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Stormwater, Nrdc, Water, Agriculture, Factory Farms, Runoff, Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, Green News
Nancy Stoner

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.

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A Surprise Way to Keep Our Beaches Clean: Pass a Climate Bill

Nancy Stoner | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Sewage, Testingthewaters, Globalwarming, Beachwater, Beachreport, Pollution, Stormwater, Beaches, energyandclimate2009, Green News
Nancy Stoner

What does an energy bill have to do with beachwater? An awful lot, it turns out, because global warming poses an immediate risk to nearly every town and city beach across the country.

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