California's Clean Car Policies Are Giving Consumers the Rides They Want
There's fresh evidence that California's pioneering clean car efforts are working -- and that consumers are firmly in the driver's seat, steering toward ever-cleaner vehicle options. The 2014...
View ArticleNorth Omaha Residents Win Major Clean Air and Climate Victory
In North Omaha, Nebraska, local residents just won a powerful, inspiring victory to move their utility beyond coal. After years of amazing community activism from local parents, business owners,...
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Your (Not So) "Bee-Friendly" Plants
Bee-harming pesticides in our lavender and daisies? In the same week that an international body of scientists released a comprehensive global assessment of the harms of pesticides to bees, a new report...
View ArticleAging Utilities Killing Americans and Their Future
About a hundred first responders are meeting in Long Beach, California this week to discuss -- among other things -- the state of the nation's infrastructure. The Utility Workers Union of America...
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'Green News Report' - June 26, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The gloves are off - President Obama now just openly mocking climate change deniers; Pesticides linked to autism (again) and...
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Barack Obama And The Rationale For Ecosystem Service Markets
Tweet Share If there's one thing US President Barack Obama understands, it's the danger of sticker shock. "People don't like gas prices going up," he said on Wednesday. "They don't like electricity...
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'People's Garden' Will Bring Sustainability Showcase to DC's National Mall
Heirloom and Pollinator Garden at USDA headquarters One of the more thoughtful landscaping undertakings I have seen will be installed over the next 15 years on, appropriately enough, the grounds of...
View ArticleOn Red Mud and Other Messes
It was one of the worst environmental disasters in Europe. In October 2010, near the town of Ajka in northern Hungary, a reservoir wall containing the industrial sludge pond of an alumina plant...
View ArticleThe Color of Carbon: How the EPA Clean Power Rule Could Help Communities of...
The EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan drew praise from environmental advocates who have long hoped that Washington would finally take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions and address the threat of...
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Revealed: Heather Zichal Met With Cheniere Executives as Obama Energy Aide...
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogHeather Zichal, former deputy assistant for energy and climate change to President Barack Obama and nominee to sit on the board of directors of LNG export company Cheniere...
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North Dakota Oil-By-Rail Routes Published for First Time
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogFor the first time, DeSmogBlog has published dozens of documents obtained from the North Dakota government revealing routes and chemical composition data for oil-by-rail...
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Our Oceans Are Dying: Mobilizing an Indifferent Public to Confront This Crisis
I did not expect good news when I attended the reception at the Museum of Natural History on June 25th to learn about the results of the Global Ocean Commission report on the state of the world's...
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Bakken Trains
There has been an alarming rise in the incidence of train accidents in the last two years involving the derailment of tanker cars carrying crude oil, spilling large volumes of toxic crude oil into...
View ArticleWATCH: A Shark-Deterrent Wetsuit (And It's Not What You Think)
Ocean swimmer Hamish Jolly wished there was a wetsuit that could keep sharks at bay -- so he invented one. Find out how he did it, and how you could apply the same techniques to create an innovation of...
View ArticleThere's Nothing Left To Be Afraid Of
Click here to watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post. I must surely have a unique perspective on the subject of being eaten alive because, well, I have been. I lost my right arm from my elbow down...
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BRIC Was It, Now EMIC Is the Thing
"Daring for Big Impact" was held at the Greifenstein Castle in Switzerland. So you've probably heard of the BRIC countries as discussion of the economic growth potential of Brazil, Russia, India and...
View ArticleHow Many Wolves Died for Your Hamburger?
When you bite into a hamburger or steak, you already know the cost to the cow, but what about the wolves, coyotes, bears and other wildlife that were killed in getting that meat to your plate? There...
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Ocean-Killers Plunder Northern Seas
The rapacious 'War Against Nature' and whales resumed last week in the northern seas. Iceland slaughtered its first endangered Fin whale and Japan massacred 30 Northern Minke whales. A grenade-tipped...
View ArticleWhat Music Do Animals Like?
Research published today by the American Psychological Association has shown that chimpanzees prefer listening to West African akan and North Indian raga over listening to silence. What does this say...
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Target: Take the Poisonous Dog Treats Out of Your Stores
It just so happens that I was all out of dog treats yesterday (we have a wonderful new puppy in a puppy class) when this story popped into my inbox. It was a petition asking me to join thousands of...
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