Environmental, Health and Safety News

As mentioned earlier in this blog, amounts of prescription drug residues in some drinking water supplies are no reason to go for the bottle...

Woohoo! From EPA  (Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2008) EPA today met its requirements of the Clean Air Act by signing the most stringent ...

That's the message from a an article in Tuesday's New York Times . According to industry dogma, biodiesel is "nontoxic, bio...

"Top federal health officials said Wednesday that they had asked the Institute of Medicine, the government's premier medical advi...

Green' storage in forests may be going up in smoke. A new study finds that Calif. wildfires emit more greenhouse gases than previously b...

To make ethanol, you want to make vinegar first, according to ZeaChem . The biofuel start-up, which has moved from Colorado to Silicon V...

EPA News - epa.gov  (Washington, D.C. - March 6, 2008) Thirteen communities in 10 states will share more than $2.5 million in job training ...

By Big Gav peakenergy :   The Engineer-Poet recently had a post on The Cogeneration Stopgap at the Oil Drum, which looked at how the com...

A bleak funding picture across the country Nationally, the news isn't much better. Chemical & Engineering News reports this week ...

China's carbon dioxide emissions are growing far faster than anticipated according to according to a new analysis by economists at the ...

Some are for real, but some are 'greenwashing'   AS INTEREST IN GREEN ISSUES reaches a white-hot pitch, government and industr...

Cleanup of nuclear weapons sites is behind schedule and over budget, audit shows, but DOE cuts program OPTIMISTIC MILESTONES in cleanin...

LA TIMES - Like many of the Californians he represents, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now spends more than three hours commuting because he...

US utilities are increasingly investing in super-sized batteries and other forms of energy storage to reduce their dependence on slow, dir...

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This Week's Speaker... at the greatlakestownhall From the first time Steven Huyser-Honig vacationed along the Lake Michigan ...

Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, ...

.... It is our job today, as Members of this Committee, to ensure that the NRC remains a strong and independent regulator, true to its mi...

From  Steve Spence  green-trust.org Most of the common machines used in workshops, industry, and farms are driven by motors of only .5...

GRIST - Know how the U.S. hasn't even figured out a long-term solution for its own nuclear waste? Perhaps importing 20,000 tons of ...

Read via greencarcongress.com The report— Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Bi...

Here is the "Environmental Graffiti" list of the top 5 Most Environmentally Friendly Presidents : 5. Abraham Lincoln 4. Teddy ...

Surprised? NY Times: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has worked to provide incentives and investment opportunities for ethanol. Her action...

Recent reports, though, have led to a growing concern that ethanol might simply be a faster way of digging an environmental grave. Acc...

QUOTE: We need to build 2,000, 3,000 nuclear reactors for it to take on the kind of role that coal has today. WHO: Dr. Makhijani, ...

The National Brownfields Conference is the largest, most comprehensive conference focused on cleaning up and redeveloping abandoned, underu...

Is America the environmental leader or the laggard? Of course it's the leader. The problem is, it's also richer. That means that...

Bottom-trawling: How it works The delegation from New Zealand, whose fishermen are responsible for 90% of bottom-trawling in the South...

Yep, as I have documented before 100-300 mpg has been possible for decades with "regular" on "regular" gas.   Quoted...

                                                         

"CHICAGO -- The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industri...

Little-known green factoids about US presidents throughout history Presidents come in many different shades of green, much like t...

Houston Chronicle: Like it or not, the nukes are coming. Driven by soaring energy demands, the high cost of gas and oil and worries about...

NIH Collaborates with EPA to Improve the Safety Testing of Chemicals New Strategy Aims to Reduce Reliance on Animal Testing Testing the...

Who said it trying to sway the "green" vote?   In a speech on Wednesday at a GM auto plant in Wisconsin,  promising t...