Pollution

Dam the Carp! No more dithering on invasive species

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.25.2009 | Chicago


Henry Henderson

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...

China's Middle Class Rises Up In Environmental Protest, Uses Twitter To Organize

Telegraph | Malcolm Moore in Shanghai | Posted 11.24.2009 | Green


More than 1,000 people took to the streets in a district of Guangzhou to protest against the building of a rubbish incinerator near their homes. The ...

Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?

Deirdre Imus | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green


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.

The Value of Water

Henry Henderson | Posted 11.20.2009 | Chicago


Henry Henderson

The water rich communities of the Great Lakes region do not understand the nature and value of their most precious resource.

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

John DeCock | Posted 11.21.2009 | Green


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?

Is Obama Ready to Take on Factory Farming?

David Kirby | Posted 11.11.2009 | Green


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.

Biofuels from Microalgae (Part 1)

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green


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.

Cleaning Up the Language Around Ocean Pollution

Wallace J Nichols | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green


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.

Cap And Trade: Get The Lowdown

Posted 11.06.2009 | Green


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...

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

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


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...

Al Gore's Our Choice: Progressive Book Club Review

Progressive Book Club | Bill McKibben | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books


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 ...

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

The Yes Men | Posted 11.02.2009 | Green


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.

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

Howard Glaser | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


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.

Biofuels For Commercial Flights By 2010

Yahoo! News | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green


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

Vanishing Coral Reefs (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Eve Solomon | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green


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...

Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green


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.

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

Rich Kassel | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York


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.

EPA Vows Better Enforcement Of Clean Water Act

nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


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

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

Levi Novey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


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.

Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

Carl Pope | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


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.

1950s vs. 2000s: The Drive to Supersize

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


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.

Cadmium Pollution Kills Human Fetal Sex Organ Cells

Dan Agin | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green


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.

Watching The World's Water Quality And Quantity

Lissa Coffey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living


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.

How Cities Drive Plants Extinct

BBC | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green


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 ...

EPA moves to regulate smokestack greenhouse gases

AP | DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home


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.