If the Michigan Public Service Commission approves the Line 6B expansion projects, the Great Lakes will be at the heart of the tar sands transportation debate, above Keystone XL and the Northern Gateway…
Transitioning to a Green Economy Holds the Answers to Today’s Critical Challenges
Worldwatch Institute
05-18-2012
Critical environmental issues are too often pushed aside in pursuit of short-sighted economic goals. But to effectively address the ongoing economic crisis, environmental concerns must take center stage…
The Organic Watergate: Advocates Condemn USDA’s Relationship with Corporate Agribusiness
Cornucopia Institute
05-18-2012
The organic community came together and actually asked the government, in order to maintain a level playing field and organic integrity, to regulate our industry. How many other industries have ever asked the federal government for tough regulations and enforcement?
Does Exposure to Natural Gas Wells Make People Sick? Proposed Health Study Can Find Out
Frack Check WV
05-18-2012
The study would look at detailed health histories of hundreds of thousands of people who live near the Marcellus Shale, a rock formation in which energy companies have already drilled about 5,000 natural gas wells…
In case it somehow slipped off your calendar, today is Endangered Species Day. Last year we celebrated by launching a blog series called “Can’t Live Without ‘Em” to highlight critters small and large that contribute to keeping our planet healthy…
The impacts of the Deepwater Horizon are being felt in—you guessed it—Minnesota. White pelicans that winter in the Gulf of Mexico and have lived in an oiled Gulf have migrated to far away places such as Minnesota to lay eggs…
Regulations for chlorothalonil were set by EPA using studies based on ingesting the chemical, even though the agency considers chlorothalonil ingestion to be “slightly toxic to non-toxic” when ingested and “highly toxic or acutely toxic” when inhaled…
An Environmental Working Group (EWG) analysis highlights the skewed priorities and gross inequities in federal spending under the nation’s most far-reaching food and farm legislation…
