At Blue-Green Alliance meet, the cry is, “Good Jobs, Clean Air!”
WASHINGTON - Truck-driver Porfirio Diaz brought the 3,500 delegates at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs national conference here to their feet May 5 with his harrowing story of the struggle he and his fellow drivers are waging for union rights and clean air in the Port of Oakland in California.
Cheney blasted for blocking oil well safety valve
Women who have spent their lives fighting oil company pollution and profiteering denounced Dick Cheney and the company he once headed for their role in the oil spill spreading across the Gulf of Mexico.
Gulf disaster spurs questions on drilling, Halliburton
With an estimated 25,000 barrels of crude oil gushing each day from BP's Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental group called for an immediate halt to offshore drilling.
Energy bill stalling has groups riled up
Leaders of 31 national organizations sent a letter to the Senate today pressing senators "not to squander the great promise of bipartisan action" for "strong clean energy and climate change legislation."
Chicagoans throw cold water on privatization plan
CHICAGO - Rumors that a plan to privatize this city's drinking water is in the pipeline have residents alarmed.
Company demands rate hike for new coal plant
Despite claims coal energy is cheaper than green energy, Consumers Energy wants to impose an 8.5 percent rate hike to pay for a new coal-fired plant in Michigan.
As flood waters recede, deeper questions emerge
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - As Rhode Islanders recover from the state's worst flooding in 200 years, questions are being raised about why the damage was so great.
Obama threads political needle on oil drilling
The president responds to "Drill, baby, drill" with his own drilling plan.
Obama’s nuclear power plan assailed as costly and misguided
President Obama's announcement of $8 billion in loan guarantees for two new nuclear reactors has drawn virtually unanimous opposition from environmental groups.
White House launches new agency to advance climate change action
The Obama administration is establishing a new federal Climate Service to suppport national, state and local action on climate change, officials announced last week.
