ALBANY, N.Y. — Governors of five states promised Thursday to work together to protect the Atlantic coast and collaborate on developing offshore ...
AP | MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
HOUSTON — BP Products North America Inc. is being sued by Texas authorities who accuse the petrochemical giant of 46 pollution violations at its...
David Roberts | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green
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!
Henry Henderson | Posted 07.04.2009 | Chicago
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?
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...
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
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...
Juli Charkes | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green
With the pleasure of boating comes unacceptable amounts of environmental waste and pollution; marinas and the boating industry must implement more environmentally sound practices.
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.
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...
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...
AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green