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  Congressional watchdog issues update on coal ash regulation efforts 0

  Posted 3 days ago by Sue Sturgis

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency still does not know the exact number of coal ash dumps at the nation's power plants, but it's moving ahead with plans to regulate them. Read More

• Three models of social change 6

  Posted 3 days, 6 hours ago by Lester Brown

  Can we change fast enough? When thinking about the enormous need for social change as we attempt to move the world economy onto a sustainable path, Lester Brown finds it useful to look at various models of change. Read More

• Mountains look best with their tops on

  Coal River Mountain, a symbol of hope, is slated for destruction 37

  Posted 2 weeks ago by Matt Wasson

  Mountaintop removal mining is starting on an iconic peak in West Virginia, which has tons of potential for wind energy. A wind farm versus a mountaintop removal coal mine -- there could be no better symbol for the crossroads of America’s energy future. Whichever way it goes, the fate of Coal River Mountain is America’s energy future. Read More

• A whole new world

  New interactive map shows devastating effects of global temperature rise 0

  Posted 2 weeks, 1 day ago by Tyler Falk

  No need to waste your money on the new apocalyptic thrillers coming soon to theaters. A new world map released Thursday by the British government, and unveiled at the Science Museum in London, provides plenty of real life doom and gloom -- and it's free! Read More

• Why Branson and SuperFreakonomics are wrong, in pictures 33

  Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago by David Roberts

  Sir Richard Branson believes that removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would create a more sustainable society. The authors of SuperFreakonomics agree. But these pictures tell a very different story. Read More

• Bye-bye Arctic ice cap 3

  Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago by Agence France-Presse

  Polar researchers predict that the Arctic ice cap will vanish completely in the summer months within 20-30 years, sounding the alarm just two months before the critical climate change summit in Copenhagen. Read More

• The risky plan to dump coal ash in an old Tennessee mine 0

  Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Sue Sturgis

  A company is pushing a plan to use dry coal ash from the Kingston plant to fill an abandoned coal mine in Tennessee -- but environmentalists are raising concerns about the proposal's health risks. Read More

• U.S. headed for massive decline in carbon emissions 4

  Posted 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Lester Brown

  For years now, many members of Congress have insisted that cutting carbon emissions was difficult, if not impossible. It is not. During the two years since 2007, carbon emissions have dropped 9 percent. While part of this drop is from the recession, part of it is also from efficiency gains and from replacing coal with natural gas, wind, solar, and geothermal energy. Read More

• PONZICONOMY

  Our global pyramid scheme 3

  Posted 1 month ago by Lester Brown

  Today's mismanaged world economy is like a giant global illusion. If we keep overpumping, overgrazing, overplowing, overfishing, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, how long before our pumped up Ponzi-conomy unravels and collapses? Read More

• Now you see them, soon you won't

  WWF finds tons of new species about to be wiped out by climate change [slideshow] 1

  Posted 1 month, 1 week ago by Ashley Braun

  The World Wildlife Fund is really excited to tell you about the 100+ crazy, new plants and animals it found in Southeast Asia in 2008. But it's totally bummed that most of them are threatened with extinction by climate change. See them before they're gone! Read More

• I thought YOU were looking for the sign!

  Scientists identify “safe operating space for humanity” in seminal Nature study 20

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by David Roberts

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• The toxic assault on our children

  Can we protect kids from the toxic trappings of modern life? 1

  Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Vanessa Kerr

  Philip and Alice Shabecoff's Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children casts environmental contamination in the context of kids, connecting the dots between the toxification of the young and a slew of once rare, now devastatingly commonplace childhood diseases. Read More

• Puget Sound saviors wage war on pet poop 14

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Mary Bruno

• EPA revamping rules for toxic releases from coal plants 0

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Sue Sturgis

• Pollan says health-care reform will fail unless we change the way we eat 11

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

• EPA to hold 79 mountaintop removal permits for further review 0

  Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago by JW Randolph

• Large Florida grower steps up for farm workers 0

  Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago by Tom Philpott

• Climate change policy as prescription for British health care? 0

  Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago by Ben Tuxworth

• Health-care reform through green-colored glasses 1

  Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago by Richard Graves

• EPA’s failure to publicize drinking water data prompts rethinking in agency, Congress 1

  Posted 2 months ago by Huffington Post Investigative Fund

• Global warming, California, and wildfires 20

  Posted 2 months, 1 week ago by Joseph Romm

• The way we eat is trashing the fragile conditions that make human life possible 22

  Posted 2 months, 1 week ago by Tom Philpott

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