Environmental, Health and Safety News

Quote of month - I tend to agree with Charlie Munger when he recently said running cars on fuel derived from corn "is about the dumb...

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With a 52-5 vote in the Senate Wednesday, Illinois became only the second state to enact legislation requiring green cleaning in schools. ...

Indigenous people are being pushed off their lands to make way for an expansion of biofuel crops around the world, threatening to destroy ...

EPA has launched a Web site to help business, government and private citizens make intelligent choices on sustainable environmental benefi...

UIUC's LAS News - When a plume of contaminated groundwater from a manufacturing plant near Las Vegas seeped into the Colorado River, ...

TIM WEBB, INDEPENDENT, UK - Biofuels have also driven up food prices, hitting the world's poor the hardest. According to the Internati...

MADISON – Reports over the weekend that a new viral fish disease likely killed fish in the Lake Winnebago System is spurring Wisconsin fis...

The amount includes nearly US$10 billion in activities that the bank has already undertaken. Citigroup plans to increase to US$10 billion ...

Firm to Fight Citations in Wake of Milwaukee Blast J.M. Brennan Inc. vows to challenge the three Fed-OSHA citations and nearly $17,000 in ...

FROM MSN: It turns out that we wouldn't have to cut consumption by 40 percent or 30 percent or even 20 percent to send pump prices low...

True or myth... could someone email me if this is a hoax? Scientists may have cured cancer last week. Researchers at the University of ...

NEW YORK - The light bulb, the symbol of bright ideas, doesn't look like such a great idea anymore, as lawmakers in the U.S. and abroa...

Far from being the salvation of an oil-hungry society, biofuels could actually trigger increases in food prices and deforestation, accord...

Reuters. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is cautioning that switching from fuel oil to cleaner, less polluting marine diesel in ship...

US President George Bush today issued an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Departments of Agriculture,...

The Minnesota state legislature recently passed an innovative "producer responsibility" bill which requires electronics manufact...

MARLA CONE, LA TIMES - More than 200 chemicals - many found in urban air and everyday consumer products - cause breast cancer in animal te...

DANIEL HOWDEN, INDEPENDENT, UK - In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flyi...

While the Union of Concerned Scientists say the technology to build a fuel-efficient family vehicle that can meet future emissions standar...

Boing.boing:  "The China Experiment" is a fascinating read, a sweeping look at the many ways in which China is reducing its emi...

TreeHugger has a post quoting Popular Science from 1934 on solar power. " SUNSHINE, our greatest source of potential power, is now la...

Capturing and burning methane produced by dams. Equipment designed to stop the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere. The technology...

New research indicates that with some pollutants, drugs, and natural substances, the effects of the toxic substance vary according to dose...

No one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse. The problem with the big commercial...

  Beijing, China: Xu Jiehua (r), the wife of the detained Chinese environmental activist Wu Yilong, sits behind water samples collected by ...

Having already done serious jail time for eco-sabotage arson, Rod Coronado is now charged and looking at jail time again -- for describing...

AP - The national per capita divorce rate has declined steadily since its peak in 1981 and is now at its lowest level since 1970. . . Some ...

Best news I read this week: Whoohoo! In TV's worst spring in recent memory, a startling number of Americans drifted away from televi...

LEE Iacocca, "I've figured out nine points I call the 'Nine Cs of Leadership.' They're not fancy or complicated. Jus...

By satellite360 via hugg.com There is an advert in several of today's UK papers warning the government about the environmental risks ...

The world's fastest-growing beverage is a boon to the industry but a bust for the environment and for the more than 1 billion people ...

Mike Salinero of The Tampa Tribune explains the new EPA rule on filing information to the toxic release inventory 12/27/06. EPA said it wi...

Plastic pollution is destroying the world's ocean ecosystems, but some companies are in a position to stop the devastation. We have al...

Toxicologists are making headway in their understanding of perfluorinated compounds like PFOS and PFOA. New research is suggesting that th...