Environmental, Health and Safety News

Wisconsin now has more forestland than at any time since the first forest inventory in 1936, MADISON – Wisconsin currently has 16 million...

From NY -Times : While rechargeable batteries can be more economical than their disposable counterparts, they do have drawbacks. A new o...

The U.S. Department of Energy website news of a breakthrough in solar energy efficiency . From the article: "...with DOE funding,...

In America we devour oil like no other country in the world. Representing 5 percent of the global population, the country consumes fully a ...

"The grain required to fill an SUV tank could feed one person for one year," says Lester R. Brown, a MacArthur "genius grant...

Word for word I have to agree with autobloggreen.com on this... To try and condense this lengthy article on energy independence and sust...

Sometime soon there has to be a focus on alternative fuel production, or at least a realization that one fuel has more potential than t...

Biggest myth or misconception about household toxics (Great Piece ENN!) Toxic mold is largely a media creation. In the 1990s a study ...

Energy gap factors into child obesity.  Many children are gaining too much weight because they are overeating or under-exercising by about...

A decade ago, the very idea that pollutants could interfere with a body's chemical messages was near the frin...

New Straits Times: FOR a decade, the world has wondered when China's leaders will recognize the staggering environmental crisis confro...

Progress From the Engineer-Poet "It looks like my spec for 50% efficiency in the gas-to-electricity step in Sustainability may ha...

  EcoBunnies?  Uh...I don't even know...  Apparently Travelocity has partnered with the Conservation Fund to provide carbon offsets to...

ECO-FRAUD IN SCIENCE: You believe them, because they give you answers you want to hear (not that you NEED to hear). It is not un...

New York Times: One of the misconceptions about weaning ourselves from dependence on petroleum-powered vehicles is that there will be a ...

With workplace safety knowledge, every American needs to know when to work and when to walk... Here is the Weekly Toll: Death In The Amer...

General Motors vehicles will soon be used in tests of a "100% bio-derived diesel-like fuel" run by the school and GS AgriFuels C...

Despite the promise of higher crop prices and more jobs, alternative fuel production isn't for every area of the country. In eastern O...

Genetically engineered blood protein can split water into oxygen and hydrogen   The researchers AT Imperial College London have combined ...

  Global Warming is nothing NEW - Dahhh ! A magazine from 1932 with some details about warning is a little shocking. But look at this...

    " Russia will build 42 nuclear reactors by 2030  as part of an ambitious program to revive its atomic power industry." ...

Would you believe Wal-Mart is out to make the world a greener place…through radically altered business practices. And their looking...

There's an upcoming wave of green TV shows, Sundance is launching "Channel Green," and then there's "E-topia,"...

"The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deepl...

Perfluorochemicals are found in floor waxes and shampoos, fast-food wrappers and microwave popcorn bags. They coat pizza boxes, carpets...

To cut pollution and boost U.S. sources of power, the Energy Department has started awarding tax credits to build clean-burning coal plants...

An ACT and New South Wales government funded forum has been told more needs to be done in the way of water recycling if the region is to t...

Haven't heard Amory Lovins speak before? Then you owe it to yourself to watch the CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) discuss ...

From the head of GM: First, electricity offers outstanding benefits... beginning with the opportunity to diversify fuel sources upstream ...

Leaders of 22 union locals representing some 10,000 EPA employees have asked Congress to protect them from reprisals for speaking out on t...

EPA seems to have backed down halfway on its threat to cut the amount of information the U.S. public gets about toxic substances that indu...

Chlorinated Solvents in Groundwater of the United States Michael J. Moran, John S. Zogorski, and Paul J. Squillace  (Article) DOI: 10.1021...

Coffee drinkers show lower diabetes risk... Researchers found that among more than 12,000 middle-aged adults...

After failing to comply with a 2002 agreement to install pollution-control equipment on two coal-fired power plants in New Jersey, PSEG Fo...

A single dairy cow produces about 120 pounds of wet manure per day...