An updated Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed today in Washington, D.C., offering the hope for increased collaborative actions to protect and restore the Great Lakes. The Agreement has … Read more
Inhofe’s Desperate Attack: Senator Stoops to Fighting Dirty Against Clean Air
If it’s so obviously a bad idea to limit mercury pollution under the Clean Air Act, why does Sen. Jim Inhofe have to go so low as to misrepresent National … Read more
East Coast Dolphins Would Get Sonic Migraine from Proposed Drilling
Last week, the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) took another step toward green lighting geological surveys for oil and gas drilling in the Mid- and South-Atlantic Ocean. With all the political … Read more
Guest Post: Pennsylvanians Don’t Have a Friend in Senator Toomey
Ed Perry is an aquatic biologist who retired in 2002 after a 30-year career with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where he supervised the section responsible for protecting streams … Read more
Reminders of Frogs, Five Leap Years Past
Wednesday is Leap Day, which got me to thinking about one of my favorite jumping critters – frogs. Growing up with about 10 acres of woods behind my house and … Read more
Great Lakes region targeted for nuclear waste dumps
The Great Lakes region, the center of the freshwater universe, could become home to central repositories for high-level radioactive waste from nuclear power plants across the U.S. and Canada. The … Read more
UPDATED Clean Air Under Attack (Again) this Week In Congress
Update: On September 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TRAIN Act, by a vote of 249-216. It must still pass the U.S. Senate before it reaches President Obama, … Read more
