Environmental, Health and Safety News

A report from the government of the United Kingdom discussing the benefits of open source software indicates that Linux could certainly al...

Fuel cell cars still 20 years out, says conference Forget cars. Micro electronics and power plant generation were the word this week in Te...

Arianna Huffington, was a little skeptical about Arnold Schwarzenegger's green credentials as Governor of California: "It is incr...

Deforestation, which releases a significant number of carbon dioxide, has put Indonesia as the world's third largest emitter of greenh...

The city of San Francisco is on the verge of banning use of the plastic grocery bags that have been a marvel (for their carrying capacity...

DOE released its spending plan on March 16th for funds appropriated by last month's continuing resolution, which included $1.474 billi...

Combining modeling with biomonitoring data reveals pesticide exposure routes in pregnant Latina women in the Salinas Valley (Calif.). Tho...

Advances in anodes and cathodes move microbial fuel cells closer to practical uses. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) remain a laboratory curio...

Last week US BioEnergy had a ground-breaking ceremony at a new ethanol plant in Dyersville, Iowa, bringing to 78 the number of ethanol pla...

The long awaited day is here. All of you that signed up for the challenge, let's see what you are made of.    It is obvious that peop...

General Motors yesterday pledged to cut the carbon dioxide emissions from its manufacturing plants in North America by forty percent over ...

The United States has submitted a proposal to adjust the Montreal Protocol, accelerating the phase-out of ozone damaging chemicals.   Th...

Purdue University chemical engineers have proposed a new environmentally friendly process for producing liquid fuels from plant matter (or...

Cancer Causing Chemicals In Bath Products The characters are irresistible to you and your child, but a new study reveals there's a susp...

Across this country, people are more and more concerned about global warming. In marking World Water Day today, it is important to highlig...

The U.S. Department of Labor today announced public availability of a database to provide information on toxic substance and chemical expo...

1. NEMA publishes ANSI Z535.1-2006 standard for safety colors The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) recently published ...

Chest compression is more important than mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in helping save lives during cardiac arrest, according to a new stud...

On Friday, March 23, 2007, families, friends and others will gather on the South Steps of the Texas State Capitol to observe a moment of s...

Billing it as the first-ever consumer guide to toxic chemicals in cars, an advocacy group on Tuesday rated more than 200 models based on i...

Twelve whistleblower crew members each were awarded $437,500 as part of a $37 million settlement, the largest ever, involving deliberate o...

Around 70 percent of all new drugs introduced in the United States in the past 25 years have been derived from natural products reports a ...

Michael Bitz, a teacher and educational researcher sees comic books as the perfect teaching tool. Bitz is the founder of the Comic Book P...

California Legislature is considering a package of bills that would prohibit or reduce the use of the most abundant and potentially harmfu...

MERCURY CONTAMINATION OF FISH WARRANTS WORLDWIDE PUBLIC WARNING (From precaution.org ) Madison, Wisc. -- The health risks posed by mercury...

The U.S. Department of Labor is introducing a public database that provides information on toxic substance and chemical exposures at facilit...

In response to an AFL-CIO and United Food and Commercial Workers Union lawsuit, the Labor Department vows that Fed-OSHA will issue a final...

OSHA has not conducted planned inspections of the vast majority of south Texas petroleum refineries over the last five years, including th...

Binge Drinking, Drugging Take Toll on Irish Construction Sites In Ireland, an Institute of Occupational Safety and Health survey finds tha...

"Safeguarding Equipment and Protecting Employees from Amputations," a revised employer guide that identifies eight mechanical mo...

Adherence to Fed-OSHA rules would better protect 8.5 million public workers in the 26 states that allow local governments to voluntarily s...

Investors call on Congress to go green - More than 50 major U.S. investors are asking Congress to enact tough federal legislation to curb...

Seed Supply Tight; A burgeoning ethanol market has the nation's farmers gearing up to plant massive amounts of corn this spring, crea...

Earth-friendly Manson? But who would guess that this is the largest eco-friendly house in America built in Atlanta by Ted Turner's da...

This would make the top of Hugg, digg or Grist if someone did the "carbon foot" of the war... However, the majority of us do n...