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Uh-oh. In the pell-mell race to develop lithium-ion batteries for plug-ins, EV's and hybrids, has any automaker taken a hard look at w...

By: David Dempsey Canada may not be selling it yet; but  Lake Michigan is giving it away.   A water bottling company has won approval ...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- The United States, Australia and Iceland signed the charter of an agreement Thursday to promote geoth...

NY-Times: “The windiest sites have not been built, because there is no way to move that electricity from there to the load centers,” ...

I know this not a political blog (nor should it be). But, our presidential debates are focused on a mindless loop of senseless political...

Associated Press: Scientists worry that a rapidly reproducing, tiny invasive snail recently found in Lake Michigan could hurt the lake...

Power plant emissions that cause acid rain, water pollution and destruction of the ozone layer may actually be made worse by capturing the...

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Thursday signed consumer-safety legislation that bans lead from children's toys, imposing the toughest ...

June 2008 saw another sharp drop in vehicle miles travelled (aka VMT) according to the Federal Highway Administration’s monthly report on ...

Fans of L.E.D.’s Say This Bulb’s Time Has Come    “We are not spending one dollar on research and development for compact fluorescents,”...

HOUSEPROUD  ( By Victoria Fletcher, Health Editor ) M others-to-be could be condemning their children to lives of illness. Despite beli...

Well, the Olympics have started  - so has the "Great Wall of GreenWashing"       More than 500,000 trees were planted in and ...

By David Dempsey To paraphrase Senator John McCain... "It's not a question of whether or not we'll use the natural gas und...

A squeak of protest from Wisconsin -- by Jim Ott, formerly a meteorologist with WTMJ-TV (Channel 4)   The editorial mentioned the "r...

McDonald's and Greenwashing   Environmental News Network: McDonald's, the world-famous fast-food chain best known for its golden ...

From M ens H ealth Mike Rowe on the environment.      So you’re sympathetic to the cause, but critical of what exactly - the execution?...

Just number folks...   The answer is perhaps as high as a hundred billion dollars.   From 1948 to today, nuclear energy research and d...

If the compact passes in its present form , corporations will be exempt from adhering to the bill's most integral part: the ban on Gre...

Because we look for easy answers and easily forget our past... Even under the best peak uranium conditions Nuclear only buys a little ...

Does coal have a future? Despite environmentalists' concerns, energy companies say they are racing to meet demand for coal, especia...

Wall Street Journal: The Bush administration sharply increased its cost estimate for building and operating the first national repository ...

The state of California has settled lawsuits against Heinz, Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods and Lance Inc. after the companies agreed to slash lev...

Young Gore sets out for his new home, where the sky is clear, the water is clean, and there are no Republicans. EAR...

The U.S. economy and population has expanded at a robust rate for any advanced economy while leading the world in emission reductions. B...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Gov. Jim Doyle announced Friday that the state will not permit a coal-fired heating plant for government and ...

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...