Environmental, Health and Safety News

From Big Gav VIA - " Nuclear Bomb ". No nuclear power plants have been ordered in this country for three decades. Once toute...

From Bob Park CANCER: WHAT EINSTEIN KNEW ABOUT CELL PHONES. By now everyone has heard the news frenzy over Ronald Herberman, Director of...

At a recent news conference and bill signing on the Lake Michigan shore near Saugatuck, Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that they h...

While at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation conference in Ontario this past weekend, keynote speaker, the Discovery Institute's Ge...

From David Dempsey   A federal appeals court has upheld the authority of the Clean Water Act and U.S. EPA to regulate ballast water dumpi...

"The scented fabric sheet makes your shirts and socks smell flowery fresh and clean. That plug-in air freshener fills your home with ...

On Monday, comedian Stephen Colbert had a fabulous interview with the Sierra Club's Carl Pope (h/t VIA Ecorazzi ). Enjoy:

SURROUNDED on all sides by desert, over 1000 kilometres from the nearest city, lies the tiny town of Innamincka, South Australia. Innam...

Grist - Some 85 percent of 952 sunscreens tested are ineffective or contain potentially harmful chemicals, says this year's annual s...

The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) announced today that the USA has overcome Germany as the biggest generator of wind energy ele...

Rock Port, Mo., has an unusual crop: wind turbines.   The four turbines that supply electricity to the small town of 1,300 residents mak...

More conclusive proof of global warming I find this even more compelling than “ Revealing Evidence Proves Global Warming .”

"Class action against a top manufacturer of women's perfumes and makeup has been given the green light to proceed in the United S...

The U.S. population clock is at 304, 633,590, but the scary number is the growth rate, 4,315,000 births in 2007 , more than double the numb...

Beware of 900 million Chinese driving cars "Since 2000, coal prices are up 400 percent, uranium is up 1,000 percent, natural gas is u...

GRISTY ... the 10-year deadline seems a little insane. Gore's insistence on it's practicality is somewhat puzzling to me. But I c...

From wired   California alone uses more gasoline than any country in the world (except the US as a whole, of course). That means Calif...

"Yes, its impossible, therefore it will take a little longer." -  Paolo Lugari

I hope the "hill reads this" PLEASE add "BIOgas" to Drive America on Natural Gas Act The biggest biogas plan...

Now I know senate reps read my blog!   WASHINGTON, DC – Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today introduced the Driv...

Offshore drilling "would not have a significant impact on domestic crude oil and natural gas production or prices before 2030″   The...

No I am not writing or even adding "comments" to Keith Johnson's blog at the Wall  Street Journal. But, I did find the simil...

NY - Times: The Interior Department on Wednesday made 2.6 million acres of potentially oil-rich territory in northern Alaska available fo...

Senator Introduces Gasoline Conservation Bill; Study of 60 mph Limit   By Mike Millikin greencarcongress.com US Senator John Warner (...

New Scientist has an article on nuclear waste storage - Contaminated US site faces 'catastrophic' nuclear leak - part of a speci...

"Ethanol is an ugly baby, but it's our baby. I'm not against any fuel unless it's foreign." -- oil billionaire and ...

While I have always volunteered my expertise to the U.S. government on Environmental, Health and Safety issues.   I was unaware until ...

Over the past ten years, the governments of Canada and the U.S., along with stakeholders from industry, academia, state/provincial and loc...

Next week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will rule on an application from NuScale Power, an Oregon-based startup that is seeking feder...

Kenneth Rapoza reports from  Wall Street Journal   Ethanol is on the ropes because of the food versus fuel debate, but now a new heavyw...

Richard Branson believes biofuels are the answer to guilt-free flying. But there is growing evidence that they are a downward spiral to in...

C laim s that capping greenhouse-gas emissions and creating a market for emissions trading – a policy prescription called "cap-and-t...

Mongabay: The single most important function of U.S. forests is their role in securing the country's freshwater supply at a time when w...

Reuters: Invasive species that have hitched rides into the Great Lakes since they were connected to the sea nearly 50 years ago are causin...

Bloomberg: The U.S., Canada and the European Union's combined $11 billion in annual subsidies for plant- derived fuels does little to ...