Texas Sues BP For Pollution Violations Tied To Deaths
HOUSTON — BP Products North America Inc. is being sued by Texas authorities who accuse the petrochemical giant of 46 pollution violations at its...
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Celebrating the Blessings of a Coal-Based Economy: Who Needs Teeth When You've Got Cheap Power?
David Roberts | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
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Gov. Joe Manchin has declared coal to be the state rock of West Virginia. But why should her stop there? Having a coal-based economy has given his state so many other reasons to celebrate!
BP Has a Deal it Hopes we Can't Refuse: Benzene Releases and Refinery Expansion Plans
Henry Henderson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago
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BP seems to be proposing that to fix the current health-threatening pollution, they need to increase their refinery operations to refine even dirtier petroleum. Does that make any sense?
Study: Companies Need To Disclose More Climate Risks
AP | MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal regulators have not done enough to ensure that shareholders are aware of material risks to companies from greenhouse ga...
Green News Report: June 2, 2009 (Audio)
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
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In Today's Audio Report: Rules of the road; Packing in the Parks; Is eco-system recovery even possible? Plus: Green News Report helps your troubles g...
Clean Marinas
Juli Charkes | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
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With the pleasure of boating comes unacceptable amounts of environmental waste and pollution; marinas and the boating industry must implement more environmentally sound practices.
Lake Titicaca Is Full of Sh*t
Anneli Rufus | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
No, really. It is. According to Peru's Environment Ministry, over 12 million cubic meters of raw sewage are dumped into Lake Titicaca every year.
NY Ooze Polluter Gets Prison, $105,000 Fine
AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green
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...
Goodbye, GM
Michael Moore | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
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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.
African Officials Ask For Climate Reparations Payments
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...
Quit Smoking For The Environment
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...
Report: Climate Change Causes 300,000 Deaths Yearly Already
AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
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LONDON — Climate-change disasters kill around 300,000 people a year and cause about $125 billion in economic losses, mainly from agriculture, a ...
Illegal, High-Polluting Chinese Engines Sold By Mississippi Companies
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 ...
EPA: Recession Won't Stop Clean Energy Revolution
AP | ANGELA CHARLTON | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green
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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...
Pelosi's New Tactic: Telling China Environment Is A Human Right
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 ...
Cars Are Like Cigarettes; The New Pariah
Matthew Modine | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green
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The burning of fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine is dead. Raise your glass to self-propulsion! Long live the bicycle.
Global Business Urges Countries To Cut Greenhouse Gases
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...
What Will You Do With Your Blue Marble?
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?
China: Rich Nations Must Cut Emissions By 40 Percent
AP | ELAINE KURTENBACH | Posted 06.22.2009 | Green
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SHANGHAI — Wealthy nations, as history's biggest polluters, should cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, China sa...
Big Business Gearing Up to Defend Protectionism Against UN Climate Negotiators
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
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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 Top 10 Lobbyists On The Crowded Climate Battlefield
The Climate Change Lobby | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green
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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...
EPA Finds Hazardous Material In Imported Drywall In US Homes
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...
Lisa Jackson Says Everyone Benefits From New Fuel Standards (VIDEO)
Fox Business News | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green
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EPA Administrator answered questions about the new fuel regulations on Fox Business News today. Among the anchors' concerns: Will consumers buy into ...
Maps Show Why Carbon Legislation Is Struggling
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...
Climate Change Effects: How Westerners Kill Africans (MAP)
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...
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