Currents

Over the past several weeks, blog posts and alternative media sites were riddled with panic over H.R. 875, the new bill introduced in the House over food safety regulations.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that it is halting new permits for mountaintop removal coal mining until water quality impacts from the practice can be fully assessed.

Environmentalists cheered Congress last week when the House of Representatives passed the long-awaited Omnibus Public Lands Bill, sending it on its way to an enthusiastic White House for a signature.

As the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA) welcomed hundreds of renewable energy and green building enthusiasts to its Building Energy 09 conference held March 10-12, 2009, one mantra could be heard over and over: Conservation should be our first priority.

A trio of environmental groups last week filed notices of intent to sue the federal government over violations of the Endangered Species Act related to turtle protection.

Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, announced last week that it is dialing back its investments in wind, solar and hydroelectric projects to focus more exclusively on biofuels.

It was late October, 2005. Hurricane Wilma had just raced across South Florida. Quiet had returned to Pompano Beach, and Bob Parks set out for a Publix supermarket. But Parks, a long-standing member of the Broward County School Board, was dumbfounded to see a huge ficus tree stretched entirely across Harbor Drive.

Despite the slumping economy, the so-called "clean tech" sector—including solar photovoltaics, wind power and biofuels—continued to grow by leaps and bounds in 2008.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established monitoring rules so the federal government can track and inventory emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

With the global economy in free fall, industrial gasses altering our atmosphere, human population expanding and marine and terrestrial ecosystems unraveling, we’re at a historic juncture for the world, the nation and the world"s oceans.