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Nuke Plant Facing Shutdown to Protect Fish
New York State is prepared to close 40 years of intermittent and costly legal wrangling over the annual destruction of billions of fish by the twin Indian Point nuclear power plants in the productive...
View ArticleLet American Ingenuity Lead the Way on Climate Change -- Again!
On Monday June 2, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed a regulation that would cut carbon pollution from power plants up to 30 percent by 2030. Within hours, House Speaker John Boehner...
View ArticleEPA Court Victories Pile Up: It's Time To End Mountaintop Removal
On July 11, a D.C. federal court vindicated the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to finally start bringing more scrutiny to the problem of mountaintop removal. A federal appeals court...
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The National Park Service Tells an Oyster Farm to Shuck Off
"'O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, 'You've had a pleasant run!'" -- Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court reiterated Lewis Carroll's pronouncement when it refused...
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"You Want Clean Air? Well, Screw You."
We've just spotted a new form of conservative protest against the EPA and the Clean Air Act: Coal Rollers. Pick-up trucks customized to spew black smoke -- "the newest weapon in the culture wars." As...
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The Unlikely Hero: Could Belugas Save the Great Lakes?
When we think of the Great Lakes, there's no shortage of symbolic visuals that come to mind. There's yellow perch and bass swimming amongst the waves. There are the beautiful skylines of Chicago and...
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'Pay-as-you-go' solar financing hits new milestone
We've said it before and we'll say it again: pay-as-you-go solar is the future for those working beyond the grid. From Pakistan to Kenya, anecdotal reports have trickled in that pay-as-you-go solar...
View ArticleHouston, We Have a Problem -- With Bird Poisoning
Images of distressed birds writhing, seizing and flopping their wings, broadcast last week on Houston television, were tough for the public to see. Photographers for KHOU-TV recorded this horror show...
View ArticleNature by Numbers
Impressionism, Pointillism, Statistical Processing: Finding Patterns in Nature Biodiversity scientists tend to love the outdoors. Ironically, most of their work occurs inside. At the first meeting of...
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Grassroots Organizations Will Help China Move Away From Coal
Co-authored by Dr. Sun Qingwei, Pacific Environment China Climate Coordinator President Obama's new carbon rule elicited a seemingly strong reaction from China: a pledge to institute a national carbon...
View ArticleObama Administration to Whales, Dolphins: You Go Deaf, We'll Get Oil
Imagine this: Someone moves into your neighborhood and, every 10 seconds, fires off an airgun that's louder than a jet engine. And it goes on for weeks or months at a time. It's painful and...
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Fossil Fuel Transport Leads to a Crude Awakening
When was the last time you heard the following story on national news: today, a truck transporting solar panels overturned on a highway spilling them into a river? I'm pretty sure the answer is never....
View ArticleThe Dangerous Truth Behind Wildfires
This past week, as I drove through Central Washington, I came face to face with the horrifying destruction caused by the wildfires currently raging through much of Washington State. The air itself was...
View ArticleRescue for the Global Ocean (Part 3)
Our series on the new Global Ocean Commission report, From Decline to Recovery: A Rescue Package for the Global Ocean, continues this week, addressing Proposal 5, Plastics: Keeping Them Out of the...
View ArticleHollywood's Dystopian View of Population: Entertaining But Not Realistic
Armageddon again? Hollywood continues its investment in a spate of movies and TV shows about the end of the world or some variant thereof. The latest: a Lifetime TV series called The Lottery about the...
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'Green News Report' - July 22, 2014
The Green News Report is also available via... IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Record wildfires burn a million acres in the Pacific Northwest; It's official: June 2014 was the hottest June globally on record;...
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EPA Takes the Next Critical Step Toward Protecting Wild Salmon and Stopping...
Last Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally proposed limitations that would block the massive, ill-conceived Pebble Mine project -- the controversial proposal to mine gold and copper...
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Three Images That Illustrate the Challenge of Life on a Managed Planet
Earlier this year, the U.S. Climate Assessment warned of parched prairies and flaming forests if we don't reel in climate change right now. Sixteen retired US admirals and generals then warned that...
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Aussie Households Go Solar: Game-Changer
Australia's household solar revolution has caught the government-owned electricity sector by surprise. Join Earth Dr Reese Halter from Los Angeles in another SOS segment as he tells how Australian...
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Actress Thora Birch Calls for an End to Animal Testing in the American Beauty...
To many, the words "American Beauty" bring to mind the award winning film released in 1999. The film is memorable for its multilayered themes examining topics such as materialism, appearances,...
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