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My Even More Beautiful Laundrette

Last week, California Gov. Gray Davis (D) took on washing machines, signing legislation requiring them to be water-efficient by 2007; now the state’s South Coast Air Quality Management District has […]

Jersey, Sure!

In a slap in the face to former New Jersey governor and current U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, New Jersey plans to scrap an air-pollution-control program her administration had touted […]

The Fresh Prince of Bad Air

Just two weeks after their births, infants in the Los Angeles area have been exposed to more pollution than the U.S. government considers acceptable over a lifetime, according to a […]

Natural Born Weed Killers

The cocktail of chemicals found in the most common herbicides used in home lawn care in the U.S. could reduce fertility and cause miscarriages, according to a study published today […]

Paul Horton, Climate Solutions

Paul Horton is cofounder and codirector of Climate Solutions, which is dedicated to stopping global warming by making the Pacific Northwest a world leader in practical and profitable solutions. Monday, […]

Ground Down

Hoping to fend off the utter collapse of several groundfish populations, U.S. regulators voted on Friday to ban bottom-fishing next year on most of the continental shelf in the Pacific. […]

Fargone

Even though it lacks big cities and doesn’t have the smokestacks of say, an Ohio or a Texas, North Dakota is the only state in the country where the air […]

Not So Jolly

An Italian ship carrying 400,000 gallons of diesel and fuel oil as well as highly toxic chemicals grounded yesterday just off a park in South Africa that is home to […]

War Crimes

War can be hell on the environment, but in the case of Afghanistan, no one knows just how hellish. Under the auspices of the United Nations, five teams of foreign […]

Sunny Delight?

No, you wouldn’t be on another planet if you saw this billboard: “Sun, 93,000,000 miles. Solar-powered station, the Bronx.” You’d be in Times Square, Manhattan, looking up at an advertisement […]