In a major move to protect public lands, Obama’s Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced last week that his agency was cancelling 77 contentious oil and gas drilling leases across 130,000 acres of remote Utah canyon country.
Believe it or not, it’s possible to eat locally—and vegan—in the wintery Northeast.
No one will be holding up former President George W. Bush as an example of a great conservationist. But one of his last presidential acts may stand the test of time as a key move in the conservation of marine ecosystems.
As though making up for lost time, the federal government has initiated a whirlwind of activity over greening the economy since Inauguration Day just two weeks ago.
California is in the midst of a water crisis.
A new federally funded study shows that cleaner air in the U.S. over the past two decades has led to an overall increase in life expectancy of nearly five months for Americans on average.
The day after Barack Obama’s inauguration, the new administration ordered a stop to all pending regulations pushed through in the waning days of the Bush administration.
Thoughts of Superbowl showdowns rarely involve carbon footprints, but the National Football League takes its green impact seriously.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that the state would be filing suit against the federal government to overturn the recent inclusion of the Cook Inlet beluga whale on the U.S. list of endangered species.
In what many environmentalists hope is its last affront to their sensibilities, the Bush administration is once again trying to remove endangered species protection for the rebounding gray wolf population of the Northern Rockies.
