Environmental, Health and Safety News

Houston Chronicle - Most petroleum engineers spurn  abiotic oil , as a crackpot idea, but the notion has percolated along and been popul...

NY Times -    "This report confirms that when it comes to the documenting of workplace injuries, we can't just take employers at th...

Beijing, China – President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation betwe...

OSHA schedules stakeholder meetings on combustible dust hazards OSHA Press Release - but last week the meeting was published in the Federal ...

TIME - Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. BARACK OBAMA, telling a bipartisan group of governors that...

MotherJones - Why did the White House pick a cheerleader for nuclear energy to oversee the industry? Should a booster of nuclear power with...

Los Angeles is widely reviled as the city in which no one walks. But Los Angeles is not the most car dependent city according to this data :...

As the U.S. look primed to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and international leaders prepare to converge on Copenhagen to draft a n...

From NPCA - The House of Representatives passed its version of a chemical security bill (H.R. 2868) by a vote of 230-193 T he bill inclu...

ScienceDaily  — The United States is using less water than during the peak years of 1975 and 1980, according to water use estimates for 200...

Science Daily - millions of years ago, energy-rich plant matter whose growth also was supported by the sun via the process of photosynthesi...

SlashDot - "Denmark has unveiled official research showing that two-year-old children are at risk from a bewildering array of gender-be...

JS Online  - Gov. Jim Doyle signed into law Friday legislation to curb fraud in the state's taxpayer-supported child-care program and ...

From the BigGav MSNBC has an article on a town that could disappear into a sinkhole created (indriectly) by oil drilling - Cavern could col...

Businessinsider American exports to China soared 341% from 2000 - 2008, according to the US-China Business Council. In fact, China is...

Via TRP - Deforestation in the Amazon region is the main source of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions. According to the first Nati...

Guardian, UK - Doctors in Iraq's war-ravaged enclave of Falluja are dealing with up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants...

Via Anthony Watts , a new study from Georgia Tech has some interesting findings: "Across the U.S. as a whole, approximately 50 pe...

Reason - The role that nuclear power might play in addressing the problem of man-made global warming is fiercely disputed among environmen...

Wall Street Journal - Key Senate Democrats Tuesday said it is unlikely there will be any more major committee action on climate-change le...

From Inhabitat The Progressive Automotive X-Prize is heating up as the May 2010 start date approaches, and one of our favorite entrants i...

Click image to enlarge. Jing Li, a physical scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., along with other research...

VIA- Preston Koerner BuildingGreen has just announced their list of Top-10 Green Building Products .  BuildingGreen sifts the products ...

The Oil Situation Is Really Bad Fears of Panic, Cassandra's Fate Outside of American pressure, why does the IEA issue reassuring fo...

I just got a little busier ;-) We have formulated phosphate free washer chemistry for over a decade While Maryland and Washington h...

PCBs, DDT and other toxic chemicals cannot dissolve in water, but the plastic absorbs them like a sponge. Fish that feed on plankton ingest ...

CalOsha Quote of the day: "Critics dismissed all the animal studies, saying, 'Show us the human studies.' Now we have a human ...

Great image and summary Also see NASA FAQ section on 2012 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?

From Laura Barnes Illinois Sustainable Technology Center The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is announcing a final regulation that a...

Via Great Lakes ECHO A Madison electric utility last week launched tests to burn wood chips, native grasses and other forms of biomass in c...

The U.S. EPA has released a document helping identify how children are exposed to pollution. HTML clipboard   The document, "Highligh...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new information on EPA and state enforcement of hazardous waste and air regulations....

Too Many Farmers Growing Genetically Engineered Corn Not Complying with Key Environmental Requirements One out of every four farmers who ...

"Because extinction is forever, delays in protection of the nation's most imperiled species are unacceptable," said Greenwald....

This was a bipartisan accomplishment, set in motion during President George W. Bush's administration when Great Lakes shippers, environm...