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GOP tries to force Big Coal’s poison pill on tax cut bill
Cross-posted from ThinkProgress Green. GOP leadership in Congress has decided to use must-pass payroll tax cut legislation as a vehicle to push key polluter priorities, despite a veto threat from the...
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Finally: New air toxics rules for power plants
Cross-posted from the World Resources Institute. The post was written by Nicholas Bianco, senior associate for WRI’s climate and energy program. As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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Critical List: Seattle bans plastic bags; at least 100 million trees died in...
Seattle is banning retail stores from giving out single-use plastic bags. Paper bags will cost a nickel. Google is investing $94 million in solar projects. As many as 500 million trees died in the...
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Three cheers for new mercury pollution standards
New mercury pollution standards: something everyone should celebrate.Environmentalists and public health advocates have a reason to stand up and cheer: Finalized rules to cut down on mercury air...
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Critical List: E.U. court OKs airline carbon emission scheme; climate change...
The E.U.'s version of the Supreme Court decided that it's totally cool for the E.U. to require flights originating elsewhere to participate in its carbon-emissions trading plans. Later today, the EPA...
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North Carolina gets great clean air news
Great clean air news out of North Carolina today – the Sierra Club and four of our key allies are announcing a settlement that will retire 1,600-megawatts of dirty coal power. North Carolina has long...
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Shocking but true! The director of ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ wants to...
Chris Paine, director of Revenge of the Electric Car. Director Chris Paine chatted with Grist readers about his latest film, Revenge of the Electric Car, which comes out on DVD this week after a...
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Obama makes strong call for clean energy — oh, and drilling and fracking too
(Photo by Alex Howard.) Clean energy rocks. Nice, deserving people get jobs at wind-turbine plants. Solyndra-style investments are critical. Oil-industry subsidies suck. Energy efficiency is an...
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Julianne Moore wants clean air for kids
Did you guys know Julianne Moore wrote a children’s book? This is apparently the thing celebrities do when they’re over 25 (under 25, they start a perfume line). It’s about the heartbreak of being a...
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Here’s what the night sky ought to look like (i.e. AMAZING)
Here’s your nature porn for the day: a long exposure of the night sky over the aptly named Very Large Telescope array in Chile. Dude, that’s what’s under, or rather over, all the light and air...
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The Economist uses stale right-wing ideas to attack government regulation
Regulations kill jobs? Yeah, we've heard that one before. Cross-posted from the Center for Progressive Reform. The Economist’s Feb. 18 edition offers a cover package of five articles on...
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Clean air ad featuring asthmatic kids is dangerously adorable
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) did a really good job at tugging every heartstring available in this new ad: Seriously, how much do you want to cry now? Maybe they...
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Map shows the worst air in America
The EPA is issuing new regulations for emissions from power plants, and the American Lung Association knows why. This map shows U.S. deaths caused by toxic power plant emissions. If you live in a...
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If a tree falls in the city, does it do anyone any good?
Planting trees in West Philly. (Photo by Danielle Clarke.) One Saturday in November, a few hundred volunteers descended upon parks and creek banks in and around Philadelphia to plant more than 2,000...
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Graft punk: Breaking the law to help urban trees bear fruit
Tara Hui points out an "illegal" Asian pear she's grafted onto an ornamental pear tree. Ornamental fruit trees are the worst idea ever. And I’d argue they say a lot about our culture. As we’ve built...
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New research shows Big Tobacco targets black kids
Photo by Fried Dough. Big Tobacco agreed way back in 1998 to stop marketing [PDF] cigarettes to kids. Turns out cigarette companies are still up to their old tricks — they’re just being slightly more...
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Top 10 U.S. cities with the worst air pollution
There’s good news and bad news about U.S. air pollution. We’ll hit you with the good news first. The American Lung Association released its State of the Air 2012 report today, and the study shows some...
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Power Shift turns Bank of America ATMs into truth-dispensing machines
What are you supporting when you leave your money in the oily hands of Bank of America? Among other evils, investment in coal-fired power plants and the bankrolling of climate change. Normally you...
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Modern-day DeLorean? Airplane runs on trash
Photo by Paul O'Donnell. One man’s trash is another man’s airplane fuel. Adventure-seeker Andy Pag aims to obtain funding and become the first person to fly a trash-fueled plane from one end of the...
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City-dwellers’ allergies are so bad because they don’t have enough bacteria
This allergy season has been terrible. It seems like everyone I know has been running around with leaky eyes, even those of us who aren’t typically pollen-sensitive. Granted, there was an unusual...
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