If you’re like me, “recycled textbook” means a big wedge of out-of-date social studies with a full list of made-up names written on the inside cover (Harry Butte? Delightful!). More … Read more
Conservation
Highway to Hell and the Roads Along the Way (Part 2 of 2)
For those who do not live close enough to the tar sands to see the immediate impacts, the tar sands still have an effect on you. How? The tar sands present a major source of pollution Read more
Climate Capsule: Clean Air Act Under Siege
This week’s stories: Highlight of the Week: Clean Air Act Faces More Attacks Quote: Former EPA heads Bill Ruckelshaus and Christine Todd Whitman Economic Story of the Week: Treasury grants … Read more
Loggerhead Listing Decision Delayed
Loggerhead sea turtles must wait a bit longer to find out whether or not they will receive stronger protections under the Endangered Species Act. More than a year after a … Read more
Maddow Tears Apart Drilling Plan Safety Claims
Under heavy fire from Republicans and oil state Democrats, the Obama Administration has sped up offshore oil production, granting six new deepwater permits in a little over a month. Many … Read more
President Obama flirting with a Great Lakes disaster
President Obama’s 2012 budget would cut funding for sea lamprey control in the Great Lakes, a move that would devastate the lakes’ $7 billion fishery. The president has proposed cutting … Read more
Video: Too much clean air?
Why would Congress seek to weaken the Clean Air Act? Do Members of Congress really believe we have too much clean air? These were some of the questions asked by … Read more
The Exxon Valdez Disaster, Now In Its 22nd Year
It was 22 years ago today that, with a captain who’d been drinking and an exhausted mate at the wheel, the Exxon Valdez hit a reef in Alaska’s Prince William … Read more
