Environment
December 19, 2007 -
Today President Bush signed into law an energy bill that increases efficiency standards for vehicles, phases out incandescent light bulbs, and for the first time places limits on the amount of water that can be used by new washing machines and dishwashers.
December 18, 2007 -
That's the questioned examined by an article in the latest issue of Newsweek, which reports on allegations that the former Arkansas governor's son David was involved in the hanging death of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998.
December 17, 2007 -
The plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit to block demolition of public housing complexes in New Orleans reached an agreement in court Friday with the U.S.
December 14, 2007 -
The federal government has known there were toxic levels of formaldehyde in temporary trailers provided to people displaced by Hurricane Katrina at least as far back as April 2006.
December 13, 2007 -
Most of Alabama and Georgia, the Tennessee Valley, and now North Carolina are experiencing "exceptional" drought conditions in the record-breaking drought that has plagued the South throughout the second half of 2007.
December 13, 2007 -
Texas, a state that's home to 24 million people, releases more greenhouse gas pollution than the United Kingdom, a nation with 60 million residents. It also emits more than Italy or France. Louisiana, which has a population of about 4.5 million, releases more greenhouse gas pollution than Egypt, with 72.5 million people.
December 11, 2007 -
The U.S. Department of Energy published a public notice in local newspapers today to "inform the public of DOE enforceable requirements for protection of human health and the environment from past releases of contaminants within the Melton Valley portion of the Oak Ridge Reservation located in Roane County, Tennessee."