President Bush told reporters last week that his administration is not considering any new action to put mandatory caps on greenhouse gas emissions, despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating the establishment of such regulations.
In an ongoing effort to protect our drinking water and the national jewel Lake Superior, thousands of northern Michigan residents are expected to turn in old and unwanted pharmaceuticals on Earth Day 2007 as a volunteer environmental army opens free collection sites for the third year in a row. Prescription medication and over-the-counter medicines will be collected across a 400-mile area at about two dozen free drop-off sites across Northern Michigan during the third annual Earth Keeper Clean Sweep on Earth Day 2007.
Environmentalists are vowing to fight a federal proposal to remove endangered species protection from the free-ranging Yellowstone grizzly bear population inhabiting parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. They hope to muster enough support to overturn the plans of a Bush administration intent on saving money by declaring the Yellowstone grizzly a wildlife success story—like the bald eagle and the gray wolf.
According to a new report from the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, environmental racism is getting worse, not better, in the U.S. despite two decades of advocacy and policy improvements.
As Easter approaches, hearts and minds naturally turn toward springtime and all that it entails. During this enchanting season, many of us feel the impulse to give colorful Easter baskets brimming with surprises for children. Too often, one such "surprise" is a velvet-eared, live baby bunny, adorably nestled among green plastic grass and pastel chocolate eggs. While it is often tempting to give those cuddly little creatures as pets at Easter, people must educate themselves about the nature and needs of rabbits before taking the bunny plunge.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Qué países que firmaron el Protocolo de Kioto, que estableció metas para reducir las emisiones que agudizan el calentamiento global, han cumplido o sobrepasado sus compromisos? Y ¿cuáles están fallando y por qué?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: He visto advertencias en las bolsas de carbón de parrilla que indicaban que se liberan materias carcinógenas cuando se queman las briquetas. ¿Es sano respirar dentro de la zona de olores de una parrillada al carbón?
Interest in cleaner and greener auto technology is exploding. From fuel cells to plug-in hybrids, the industry is showing more research and development zeal than at any time since the halcyon days of 1900, when gasoline, steam and electric vehicles (EVs) were competing in the marketplace.
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Dónde puedo encontrar alternativas no contaminantes a los "riñoncitos de poliestireno" utilizados para empaquetar artículos frágiles?
Querido DiálogoEcológico: ¿Cuestan más construir y operar los edificios con diversas características "ecológicas" que los tradicionales?
Environmentalists are livid about a recent policy re-interpretation by the Bush administration which grants endangered species protection to listed plants and animals only where they are struggling to survive and not in areas where their populations are healthy or have already died out.
Environmentalists are livid about a recent policy re-interpretation by the Bush administration which grants endangered species protection to listed plants and animals only where they are struggling to survive and not in areas where their populations are healthy or have already died out.
