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Land of Milk and 2-D-Phenylanlanine

British babies feeding on breast milk could be receiving as much as 40 times World Heath Organization-recommended levels of a wide range of chemicals, according to a report from the […]

DOJ-ing a Bullet?

The Justice Department on Monday requested that a full appeals court reconsider a recent ruling by a three-judge panel that overturned the Clinton administration’s clean-air standards for ozone and particulates. […]

Sorry. Our Bad.

Scientists are becoming even more certain that humans are a key contributor to global warming, and some are even contending that human causes have been the most significant factor leading […]

A Tarriffic Campaign

The Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network, and other environmental groups yesterday announced a vigorous campaign against a proposed zero-tariff agreement on forest products in the World Trade Organization. The greens […]

Oh, That's Why They Call Them the Smokies

Average daily ozone pollution levels in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park over the last eight years have been nearly two times higher than pollution levels in Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, […]

Reservations over Blackfeet Plan

Two hundred square miles of land on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation just east of Glacier National Park in Montana could soon become a huge industrial oil and natural gas development, […]

Denver Bronc-itis

For the first time, Colorado officials last week issued an ozone pollution alert for Denver, normally a clean-air haven this time of year. The city’s summer ground-level ozone problem is […]

Throwing Light on Throwing Lights

In a victory for recyclers and enviros, the EPA this week is set to ban the dumping of fluorescent light bulbs into landfills and require bulk buyers of the tubes […]

Interior Officials Kick Back?

When the Washington, D.C.-based Project on Government Oversight helped win a lawsuit last summer against Mobil Oil for paying less than it owed the Treasury for drilling on federal lands, […]

Hard of Herring

Underwater noise from supertankers, oil drilling, and military sonar may be drastically disrupting the living patterns of whales, seals, and other sea life, according to a report released today by […]