Fukushima fallout - U.S. regulatory agency loses top safety advocate
As attorneys who represent neighbors of proposed nuclear power plants in NRC licensing cases, we have watched the response to Fukushima with concern.
Plastic bags to be banned in LA
In what seems to be part of a steadily increasing effort to find, Los Angeles will become the largest city to ban plastic bags at grocery stores.
Activists abuzz over Bayer’s bee killing
Some 90+ activists gathered in San Pablo Park in West Berkeley, California, near where one of the Bayer facilities was located, to protest the company's insect-killing.
Chicago activists protest Heartland Institute conference
Over a dozen environmental activists gathered to protest the Heartland Institute, which put up ads comparing environmentalists to the Unabomber.
Attention humans: Today is Endangered Species Day
Species that were once on the brink of extinction are showing significant progress towards recovery. And that means the human species has a better chance too.
Report from space: Earth in trouble
According to a message beamed from space, the demands humanity places on the Earth exceed its capabilities.
EPA appeals coal mining ruling
A federal judge ruled in March that the Environmental Protection Agency illegally vetoed a large West Virginia coal-mining project.
Proposed bill would end fossil fuel subsidies
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. announced they would introduce the End Polluter Welfare Act to Congress.
Study exposes fracking’s poisonous effects
Now, concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale have skyrocketed, in light of a recent scientific study.
Mass bird, dolphin deaths in Peru
About 5,000 pelicans and other ocean birds have been washing up on the northern coast of Peru, just weeks after over 900 dolphins perished in that same area.
