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Species Reasoning

House Committee Passes Two Bills Weakening Endangered Species Act The House Resources Committee voted yesterday to pass two bills that could make listing species under the Endangered Species Act considerably […]

Forward, Marsh!

Big Wetlands Restoration Effort Begins in San Francisco Bay This week saw the kickoff of the third-largest wetlands restoration project in the U.S., and the largest in the West, in […]

Anne of Green Fables

Former EPA Chief Anne Gorsuch Burford Dies at 62 Anne Gorsuch Burford’s tenure at the U.S. EPA is a fascinating slice of history. Elected to the Colorado legislature at 34, […]

Carbon Stink

States Sue Power Companies Over Carbon Dioxide Emissions Eight states and New York City filed suit today against five of the largest power companies in the U.S., which they say […]

Pombo and Pombo-er

Anti-Enviro California Rep Blocks Wilderness Designation For years, citizens, enviro groups, and Washington state lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have worked together to craft compromise legislation to create […]

Bagger Advance

International Pressure Against Plastic Bags Grows Somewhere between 500 billion and 1 trillion plastic bags are used worldwide every year. They’re made of petroleum products, and they end up in […]

Lung Disease

Deforestation in Brazil Leads to Massive CO2 Emissions Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has made that country one of the world’s top 10 sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide […]

Refiner-Ease

EPA Goes Easy on Oil Refineries The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is running an investigatory series (remember investigatory journalism?) on the EPA and its relationship to the nation’s 145 oil refineries. […]

Social Lite

More Businesses Flock to U.N.’s Social-Responsibility Compact The five-year-old United Nations Global Compact, which held its first summit in New York City last month, is the world’s biggest corporate social-responsibility […]

Bhopal-Bearer

Judge Orders Payments to Bhopal Victims Released Yesterday, the Supreme Court of India ordered the government to release the remaining compensation owed the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak, […]