Since 2008, the New York City Department of Transportation has promoted the Summer Streets Initiative—temporarily closing Park Avenue and connecting streets to motorized vehicles during the first three Saturdays of August in order to encourage more sustainable forms of transportation like walking and biking.
The first bill on toxic substances since the 1970s was introduced to the House last Wednesday.
In the hope of getting some form of energy legislation passed before the Senate recess in August, a scaled-back energy bill is being pushed by Senate Democrats and the White House.
Last week, General Electric announced their $200 million Ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid.
Black Hawk, Colorado is the first town in the U.S. to ban bicycle use on most streets.
Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the longest-serving legislator in U.S. history, died June 28 at age 92 due to serious illness. With Byrd’s death come a number of other issues for the Senate, including the uncertain fate of the climate bill.
Interior Secretary Salazar Recently Gave the Green Light Approving the Controversial Cape Wind Project that hopes to put wind turbines in Nantucket Sound.
A review of the new book Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers…
Late last month, 39 giant tortoises were released on Pinta Island in the Galapagos Archipelago in an effort to restore the island’s ecosystem.
In June 2009, Elizabeth Birnbaum, then-director of the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, appointed Sylvia Baca to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management.
