The EPA has just completed a study of the effects of twenty years of the Clean Air Act as amended in 1990 — with startling results. It concludes that the benefits of limiting the release of toxic gases and chemicals into the air are four times the costs of its enforcement. This estimate represents... Read More...
Thomas Friedman lays out for us how our armed forces are going to save lives and billions by shifting radically to alternate energy sources, and doing it NOW. Read More...
Because cigarette smoke leaves a film of chemicals over every surface it touches, people who move into a smoker's former home get a dose they didn't bargain for. Read More...
Talk about unintended consequences: a decline in hunting -- due in great part to forest habitat lost to urbanization -- is leading to a decline in our ability to conserve the forests that remain. Read More...
If it can happen in Kansas, it can happen anywhere. A town literally razed by a tornado decided to rebuild to top environmental standards, including several LEED accredited buildings, and is reaping the benefits in several ways. Read More...
Sometimes you win. But in Kentucky, it wasn’t just because the people who live in the area served by the East Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) got lucky. They earned their good fortune the hard way: they worked for it. They worked together with each other and several powerful environmental organizations like the Sierra Club... Read More...
An average of 140,000 pounds of toxic chemicals enters Puget Sound each day, according to the Department of Ecology of Washington state. An estimated 75 percent of those arrive in the Sound through stormwater that runs off roads, driveways and homes. For generations we’ve been paving the country over while cleaning, making , fertilizing, ... Read More...
This Smart Planet article reveals a game changer. Making commercial products from recycled biomass instead of from petrochemicals could change not only what we put in the environment, but what we take out of it. Read More...
This list from Mother Jones magazine will give you the right dope about why our belated-but-finally-arriving electric cars are the real thing, environmentally speaking. Read More...
This short article (in limited English) on the use of compressed natural gas as a bus fuel gives us a completely different view of Pakistan than we get from our media. That the country can think about using an environmentally friendlier fuel while it's suffering flood and war is remarkable. Read More...
