Stop and take solace in the fact that there even is a summit to discuss climate change. The time of submitting inquiries and demanding evidence is over, and now those who have the power to make a change are talking about doing just that.
And that’s all they’ll be doing.
On Monday, the New York Times ran an excellent article about the amount of raw sewage that flows into the city's waterways during rainstorms. I welcome the piece; like the other articles in the paper's series on water pollution, it will draw attention to a major urban hazard.
The U.S. Senate will not vote on a proposed climate change bill until spring 2010, Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Tuesday.
An effort to overhaul the United States' healthcare system has pushed other political issues, climate change included, to the sidelines. Senators are no longer planning to vote on the climate bill until March or April.
Through the years American’s way of lighting the Christmas tree has changed; initially with candles, followed by the bulky incandescent bulbs and then the mini bulb version. Now, there is a new and more efficient way to give the Christmas tree some shine, light emitting diodes, better known as LED lights.
On Wednesday, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, the head of the fourth largest coal company in the nation, said in an interview that "I deny that there is any science that supports global warming."
While it baffles me that flat-Earthers like Blankenship still exist, my response to the last few deniers is simple.
Dirty energy special interests are desperate to defeat efforts in Congress to pass legislation that would put our country on the road to a clean energy economy.
For the past year, President Bharrat Jagdeo of Guyana has traveled the world offering to place his nation's forests under international supervision if other countries paid his citizens not to deforest the tropical landscapes.
Green might be the new black but it will have the same staying power as a white button-down shirt, outliving its annoying trendiness for good reason. This week, green is “universal” and entering your home in more ways than one. Good things are being made available to you in visuals and tidbits on network channels and a new U.S. EPA Green Homes website.
In Wednesday's Washington Post, Lyndsey Layton reported on a recent study examining the impact of the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), on the reproductive systems of human males (as the story notes, previous studies have been of mice and rats).
A new study about the staggering impacts of highway and ship pollution was released by a team of scientists and academics, including some of the most pioneering researchers on issues of health related impacts from degraded air quality.
