There could hardly be a better state to host a "green" Superbowl than Arizona, which needs to call attention to the very immediate realities of pollution and resource depletion and the importance of fast environmental action.
Two years of closed-door negotiations between farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen, conservation groups and government agencies have resulted in an unprecedented (but very conditional) agreement to remove four hydroelectric dams now operating along an embattled 300-mile stretch of the Klamath River in southern Oregon and northern California.
Backers of the Cape Wind project off the Massachusetts coast saw their stock rise last week when the Mineral Management Service (MMS), the federal agency charged with oversight of mining and related pursuits, gave a positive review to their plan to put 130 windmills across a 25-mile stretch of Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod.
The Swiss have a sensible solution to garbage collection and recycling that is so, well, Swiss.
China’s government announced last week that it is banning the production of ultra-thin plastic bags and forbidding supermarkets and shops to give them away beginning in June.
The Sierra Club, the nation’s largest and oldest environmental group, filed suit in federal court last week against Shell Oil over ongoing pollution at a refining and chemical plant complex along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
On Monday mornings one can find an array of abandoned glass jars full of money in the UPS mail room at Sterling College. These jars belong to another, nearly extinct delivery service—milk. Raw milk, in this case.
During the dozen years that I have been involved in youth sports as a parent and coach, one of the main tasks I’ve performed after every practice and every game is cleaning up after the kids. What’s struck me during all these years is the number of plastic water and sports drink bottles we’ve had to throw away.
Last week the federal Minerals Management Service (MMS) gave the green light to oil and natural gas development across 46,000 miles of the Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Strait in the Arctic Ocean. Environmentalists are opposed to the plan as the area contains one of only two American populations of polar bears.
California and 15 other states filed suit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week for denying its proposal to enact strict statewide limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trucks and SUVs.
