Guest Column by James Pew, Attorney for Earthjustice There are nearly 150 cement kilns operating in the U.S. In 2006, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - the federal agency required to protect us from harmful toxic air pollutants like mercury -estimated cement kilns pump nearly 12,000 pounds of ... keep reading
Written by James Pew last month, about Air Quality, Children and Families, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry, Pollution, Water
It has not been a good couple of weeks for Detroit auto makers. Congress turned them away (to return to the private jets in which they arrived) until they can demonstrate how they will become viable companies, Ford CEO Alan Mulally had to face Congressional questioning of his $22 million ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Industry, Politics, Transport
Last week, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released a report about the financial benefits of corporate citizenship, "Corporate citizenship: Profiting from a sustainable business" (pdf), as part of the Corporate Citizenship Conference in San Francisco. Corporate citizenship is defined in the report as "transcending philanthropy and compliance, and as addressing ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Clean Technologies, Consumerism, Design, Economics, Energy Saving, Industry
By Harvey Wasserman, author of SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH, available at www.harveywasserman.com and at www.solartopia.org . He also edits the NukeFree.org website. Bail out General Motors? The people who murdered our mass transit system? First let them remake what they destroyed. GM responded to the 1970s ... keep reading
Written by Harvey Wasserman last month, about Economics, Finance, Industry, Transport
The biggest take-away from day two of the summit is that much of what will happen in terms of global climate policy will happen at the regional level and through these kinds of regional and local agreements. President-elect Obama's message to the attendees yesterday committing to adopting California's ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Air Quality, Biofuels, Carbon Trading, Clean Technologies, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Deforestation, Economics, Education, Electric vehicles, Emissions, Energy Saving, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance, Green energy, Health, Industry, Logging, Politics, Pollution, Population, Transport, Water (1 comment)
Editor's note: Today we bring you an excerpt from Harvey Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA which envisions a world of clean, renewable energy, conservation and environmental stewardship. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. writes in the introduction to the book that Solartopia “is the good, brave renewable world of sustainability, dignity, prosperity and ... keep reading
Written by Harvey Wasserman last month, about Clean Technologies, Coal & Oil, Green energy, Industry
Many people don't think so, and American satirist and commentator Steven Colbert agrees, particularly in his recent video on oil industry greenwashing. In one 3.5 minute vignette, Colbert rips a new one for Exxon Mobil (spouting about its lithium battery technology), Valero Energy (promoting clean fuel) and Chevron ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Coal & Oil, Economics, Environmental Disasters, Industry (2 comments)
The Grand Canyon is one of America's most precious national icons. It's immense in size: it is over 277 miles long, 18 feet wide, and 5000 feet deep. Few, if any of the 5 million visitors would guess that the ecosystem of the Canyon and the surrounding National ... keep reading
Written by Michelle Schaefer in October, about Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Industry, Politics
In the beginning, life formed in the sea. The phospho-lipid membranes of our cells wrapped themselves around primordial saltwater, enclosing water, salt, and other chemicals. Our blood today includes those chemicals as evolutionary remnants of our origins. In the last twenty years a new chemical has been added to our ... keep reading
Written by Eliav Bitan in October, about Health, Industry, Politics
In 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, banned the pesticides diazonon and dursban from homes, hospitals and other public venues. In spite of that, your unborn baby may arrive in the world unable to speak, see, learn or even survive. These two pesticides, based on the chemical ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in October, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Environmental Disasters, Health, Industry
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