Environmental, Health and Safety News

From Slashdot "There are plenty of waste-to-energy plants around the US, but most of them simply burn the waste, dumping carbon dio...

From Energy Inefficient - NY Times From plug-in cars to carbon capture to wind farms linked to “intelligent” power grids, many of the s...

A company called ZeroGen wants to build a coal-fired power plant that will bury most of its emissions underground, using Carbon Capture an...

Last year 1.2 million U.S. restaurants and food service facilities used more than 3 billion gallons of vegetable oil. Utility and waste d...

FROM: Sunday herald     Easily duped, deceived or gullible is the perfect description of "green", worthy of inclusion in the c...

Earlier this week, The Charleston Gazette first reported that the Bush administration planned to issue the C8 health advisory less than...

fastcompany Consider this: Of the more than 100 independently funded experiments on BPA, about 90% have found evidence of adverse heal...

FROM Deutsche Welle The new substance would be safe for use in toys   Plastic was one of the great innovations of the 20th century, but ...

VIA Slashdot   Ground-source heat pumps have been around for decades but every year seem to attract more homeowners and organizations w...

"One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. ...

VERY Gristy It's amazing enough that the normally staid International Energy Agency recently said we've run out of time . Now ...

FROM triplepundit Green, Clean Operation Geothermal energy is all the rage these days, with the talk of its capability to solve all our...

More Photos » GARY CHANG   grabbed a handle near the wall-mounted television, pulling a section of the wall itself toward the center of th...

From Dinosaurs and Robots : Soviet Union decided to build a chain of lighthouses to guide ships finding their way in the dark polar nigh...

Air Resources Board is releasing the California Biodiesel Multimedia Evaluation Tier I Report prepared by the University of California, Da...

FROM jsonline.com   Wisconsin is one of four states whose energy programs have been recognized with national awards by the Clean State...

The US could replace all its cars and trucks with electric cars powered by wind turbines taking up less than 3 square kilometers ?   ... ...

Thirteen communities in 12 states will share $2.6 million in job training grants geared toward cleaning up contaminated properties and tur...

Posted by Keith Johnson   (Wall Street Enviroguy)   For what it’s worth, outgoing Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson has some ideas: Embrace...

Here's a bright spot in an overcast economy: Solar panel prices are tumbling.   Prices for rooftop solar systems, including installa...

First-of-Its Kind Study: Medicare for All (Single-Payer) Reform Would Be Major Stimulus for Economy with 2.6 Million New Jobs, $317 Billio...

Oil costs a third of what it did in July, and prices keep dropping. That may seem like a godsend now, but we'll pay through the nose l...

Steven Chu, the Nobel laureate scientist who is President-elect Obama’s choice to be energy secretary, said in testimony prepared for his ...

Conservationists waging a decade-long legal battle to force the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate ship ballast water just like a...

MOUTHWASHES containing alcohol can cause oral cancer and should be removed from supermarket shelves, a dental health study claims. Scienti...

cleantechnica : LED light bulbs are already more efficient than your average bulb, but researchers at the Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute...

From: Environmental Working Group [ VIA Treehugger  ( image: EWG)] Considering that the incoming Obama administration’s energy policy l...

VIA-  newscientist   A comprehensive survey of the drinking water for more than 28 million Americans has detected the widespread but low-...

"You don't ever want to let a crisis go to waste: it's an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid....

Much awesomeness by Keith Johnson Dallas billionaire T. Boone Pickens and FedEx Corp. chief executive Fred Smith are now duking it out—ov...

Petersen -Last summer, I questioned whether global lithium supplies would be adequate to satisfy exponential growth in the Li-ion battery s...

Power plants in each state with coal ash ponds and the amount in tons stored, according to an Associated Press analysis of Energy Departme...

VIA planetark     WASHINGTON - Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson said on Thursday it would be difficult to meet President-elect Barack Obam...