Environmental, Health and Safety News

MotherJones - What unites the Vatican, lefties, conservatives, environmentalists, and scientists in a conspiracy of silence? Population. ...

M. Simon at IEC Fusion Technology The Italians and Russians are working on a cheaper version of ITER . Russia and Italy have entered into a...

From Next Big Future Pathway Genomics with have genetic testing kits selling at Walgreens Pharmacy. Walgreen will start offering the ...

WDNR - With each breath of air, Wisconsin residents have good reason to celebrate the accomplishments of 40 years of cleaner air, according ...

If the average person was told of the massive toll that prescription drugs take on their liver, kidneys and cardiovascular system... they wo...

Boing2 A capsule summary of the energy policies of the last 8 US presidents from Michael Milken's presentation at the global conferenc...

Boing2 - a report that a particularly intense burst of natural gas caused the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to be shut down over fears of...

Bonig2 - Crazy, but it has been done: " the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamitie...

While the US oil spill is no Chernobyl, it is still toxic: biologist "There will be no Chernobyl in the Mississippi Delta," Gulf ...

The new regulatory agenda for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will result in new worker protections against a...

The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) released a new report today, Total Cost of Fire in the United States, which finds that in 2...

Population the 800lb gorilla...   "Estimating Impacts of Population Growth on Ecosystem Services for the Community of Albemarle Count...

There are just so many examples of the principle of there really being no 'away' when it comes to plastic waste. The great state- ...

Next100 - Cheaper Way to Split Water The current tech to make H2 is immensely expensive to ever dream of replacing current energy sources......

Inhabitat - Maybe Gross, but diffidently genius! Wearing adult diapers just got a whole lot cooler — a Japanese company called Super Faith...

Next100: As China goes, so goes the planet Earth. ...China's environmental course will make or break global efforts to coordinate an ...

If there were an easier available place to find new oil than a mile beneath the sea, they'd be drilling there. - Get used to it, baby.  ...

Consumerist Researchers from the University of Essex have found that as little as 5 minutes outside can improve your self esteem and mood, ...

While my MOM is #1  the U.S. ranked No. 28 in the survey. GreenChange   A U.S. woman is more than five times more likely to die from pr...

Here is a table from my friends at Variant Perception in London, from data from The Economist. Notice that France is over 8%. Germany is al...

C hart from CDC says enough.. .I think it's fun to look at the anti social trend chart trend next to this one. Anyone else see a corre...

Alan Caplan May be wrong about oil, but is he right about renewables? Caplan - Some believe we’ve found all the world’s oil reserves alr...

$75 million: The liability cap for BP for the Gulf oil spill, for damages such as lost wages and economic suffering $5.6 billion: BP's ...

...according to a new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). “Sadly, new data doesn’t point to new result...

Radioactive water that leaked from the nation's oldest nuclear power plant has now reached a major underground aquifer, at concentration...

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THIS IS A MUST READ - .I.E gov, edu and public safety officials who read this blog. The 240-page report by the President's Cancer Pan...

PopSci our infrastructures are far better tuned for the hydrocarbon fuels of the past century than the renewables of the next. So why don...

Electric cars haven't killed the engine as we know it, yet. In fact, the century-old technology is getting stronger every year With all ...

USDA Algal blooms that feed on nutrient-rich manure and fertilizer runoff can deplete oxygen in the water when they die, creating inhospita...

Afrigadget is a great web site for low tech solutions that you can use off the grid.  Let's face it, there is not much high tech in Afr...

40 Years in the making.... at some point we have to understand these are three wars we'll never win...

Peugeot BB1 Concept car is an electric car born from a mix and match of a scooter & a car. Designed to tackle all issues of the mode...

Environmental protection and traffic flow could emerge as conflicting priorities with a wetland in the way of a Waukesha bypass. "They ...

The Fuller Wind Turbine that is bladeless wind turbine developed by Solar Aero has been patented by a company in New Hampshire. Fulle...