Environment
December 9, 2009 -
Attendees of the United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen will get a chance to watch a new Google video about the effort to stop mountaintop removal mining on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia and to build a wind farm there instead. The environmental advocates at iLoveMountains.org are asking people to watch the video -- which uses innovative new Google Earth technology -- and send it along to friends and family.
December 8, 2009 -
In yesterday's televised announcement of the landmark Environmental Protection Agency ruling that greenhouse gases threaten health and the environment and can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, Administrator Lisa Jackson remarked that more has been done to tackle the problem of global warming in the past 11 months than was done over the last eight years.
December 7, 2009 -
An Associated Press story from yesterday gives props to the grassroots movement against mountaintop removal, a particularly destructive form of mining that involves blowing up Appalachian peaks to get to the coal below.
December 4, 2009 -
The public does not have access to information about more than 70 coal ash
December 3, 2009 -
President Barack Obama is scheduled to travel next week to Copenhagen, Denmark to participate in international talks on a new climate agreement, where he's expected to offer a
December 2, 2009 -
A new report from Environment America finds that the nation's power plants are dirty as well as old -- and that those two characteristics tend to go hand in hand.