NYMEX Holdings and Evolution Markets have formed a consortium of some of the nation’s leading financial institutions to launch the Green Exchange, a commodities trading marketplace in which U.S.-based companies could buy and sell the right to emit carbon dioxide and other environmental pollutants.
For the first time in three decades, Congress has moved decisively to decrease America’s oil dependency by raising fuel economy standards for new cars and trucks sold in the U.S. to 35 miles per gallon on average.
What’s this? Liberal, tree-hugging, famously blond Ed Begley, Jr. praising a conservative Republican, acknowledging that pollution can’t always be avoided, and sporting dark brown hair? Has the star—along with his wife Rachelle Carson—of HGTV’s Living With Ed changed his colors from the green of the environmental movement? Don’t count on it.
Cogeneration plants are converting unused energy waste streams into usable power and could provide solutions to some of our energy woes.
Louisiana wetlands are disappearing fast, and the oil and gas industries responsible for much of the destruction have not been asked to help stem the tide.
Forty years after construction began on the visionary Arizona desert eco-village, Arcosanti, the project has yet to be completed. But new eco-villages are emerging, from Los Angeles to Cleveland to Detroit, as communities look for cleaner ways to live together.
Ironic as it may seem, state and regional efforts to limit the emission of greenhouse gases might delay the passage of federal regulations mandating reductions.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, a coalition of public interest groups led by the Ecology Center has made public a database showing how some 1,200 popular children’s toys stack up in terms of lead content and other harmful chemicals.
It is hard to shock journalists and at the same time leave them in awe of the power of nature. A group returning from a helicopter trip flying over, then landing on, the Greenland ice cap at the time of maximum ice melt last month were shaken. One shrugged and said, "It is too late already."
The world’s major palm oil producers last week announced that they have created a new certification process to ensure ongoing sustainable production and the protection of the world’s remaining tropical rainforests.
