GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — The owner of a Long Island titanium factory has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for storing 12 tons of corrosiv...
Michael Moore | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
Let's be clear about this: The only way to save GM is to kill GM. Saving our precious industrial infrastructure, though, is another matter and must be a top priority.
AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
NAIROBI, Kenya — Africa contributes little to global warming but suffers disproportionately from its effects, the continent's environment minist...
The Butts Remain | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
According to ButtsOut, cigarette butt litter is the world's greatest environmental litter problem with approx 4.3 trillion cigarette butts tossed onto...
AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
LONDON — Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a ...
AP | TIMOTHY R. BROWN | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
JACKSON, Miss. — Three Mississippi companies are accused in a federal lawsuit of illegally importing and selling more than 78,000 small engines ...
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
PARIS — The top U.S. environment official says it's time for the United States to shed its energy-wasting image and lead the world race for clea...
AP | CHRISTOPHER BODEEN | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green
BEIJING — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she remains hopeful of reaching an agreement with China on a common approach to climate ...
Matthew Modine | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
The burning of fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine is dead. Raise your glass to self-propulsion! Long live the bicycle.
AP | JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
COPENHAGEN — Global business leaders added momentum to prospects for a new U.N. climate treaty by agreeing Tuesday that the world must cut green...
Wallace J Nichols | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green
Do you know where to get the best local, sustainable seafood? Do you clean up plastic litter, even if it's not yours and no one is watching? In other words, do you live blue?
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green
SHANGHAI — Wealthy nations, as history's biggest polluters, should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, China sa...
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
It appears that international efforts to slow the pace of worldwide climate disruption could also run up against powerful interests who advocate a "fundamentalist" conception of intellectual property.
The Climate Change Lobby | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
They're all part of a crazy quilt of about 140 businesses and organizations that jumped into the climate change debate on Capitol Hill in the first qu...
AP | CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
NEW ORLEANS — The Environmental Protection Agency has found sulfur and other materials in a small sampling of Chinese-made drywall, which some o...
Fox Business News | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
EPA Administrator answered questions about the new fuel regulations on Fox Business News today. Among the anchors' concerns: Will consumers buy into ...
Grist | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
Coal has had areas of the South and Midwest in a devil's bargain for decades now: cheap electricity in exchange for poverty, low-quality social servic...
Ezra Klein | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
WashPost's Ezra Klein spotted one of the most interesting maps we've seen in a while: The first shows the world in terms of carbon emissions. America...
AP | JEAN H. LEE | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
SEOUL, South Korea — Urban visionaries in London and Seoul, two of the world's busiest capital cities, foresee buses gliding through their stree...
National Geographic News | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
Breathing in polluted air may wreak havoc on our DNA, reprogramming genes in as few as three days and causing increased rates of cancer and other dise...
Grist | Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
In honor of spring finally coming to my frigid corner of the Midwest, I was thinking about trying my hand at making some dandelion wine. But I live in...
Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
The theory is that drivers get more used to seeing bikers on the road and know how to deal with them. So it might actually be a smart strategy not to be out there by yourself.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green
American corporations that have a supply chain in China must burnish their environmental image to sell products to consumers who are developing a heightened "green" awareness.
A. Siegel | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
When the director of an organization weighs in (quickly) to discuss reporting of an organizations work, that often suggests that the reporter just didn't get it.
Chelsea Green | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
It is not meat eating that is responsible for increased CO2; it is the corn/ soybean/ feedlot/ transportation system under which industrial animals ar...
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green