Air Pollution

A Non-Starter?

Ask Umbra on anti-idling campaigns 15
Posted 2 months ago A Girl Scout troop wants to start an anti-idling campaign, but they're not sure how to combat nervous grown-ups who think turning a car on and off will cause damage. Umbra, floored, gives them fuel for their cause.
The courts weigh in: states win critical round in fight to slow global warming 0
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago With all attention focused elsewhere, a key federal court handed climate and clean energy advocates a major surprise victory yesterday.
burn, baby...burn?

Big biomass, bigger opposition 11
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Electric cars powered by the burning of biomass would "average 81% more transportation kilometers and 108% more emissions offsets per unit area cropland than cellulosic ethanol" according to a recent study, but pollution and sustainability concerns could prevent building of bio-electricity plants.
Candid Cameron

Cameron Diaz films eco-documentary, takes on role as planet’s publicist 1
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Catch a sneak peek at Cameron Diaz's new film about the pollutants that plague neighborhoods across the country -- and the people who are willing to stand up and fight.
daft clunk

‘Clunkers’ debunkers attack Democrats’ auto trade-in plan 7
Posted 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Support “cash for clunkers” as an auto-industry bailout if you must, but don’t call it green.
Air quality fail

Failing grades issued for air quality in Seattle, other major cities 3
Posted 7 months ago
How does your hometown score on the American Lung Association's air quality report card?
Give Fees A Chance

Pollution taxes work 1
Posted 7 months ago
Pollution taxes have seldom been tried. But in the few cases where they've been tried, they've worked rather well.
Waiver goodbye?

States left wondering about EPA’s greenhouse gas ruling 5
Posted 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The EPA's greenhouse gas announcement explicitly tied motor vehicle emissions to climate change. But there was no mention of allowing California or more than a dozen other states to move forward promptly with their long languishing laws.
So long, clunkers?

Obama considering ‘cash-for-clunkers’ program 0
Posted 8 months ago
Did President Obama endorse a "cash for clunkers" program today? Maybe.
No particular policy instrument is appropriate for all environmental problems 11
Posted 9 months ago
Local Issue

China’s environment problems serious: minister 0
Posted 9 months ago
The game plan: regulating CO2 under the Clean Air Act 7
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago
Next stop for Obama team: EPA’s endangerment finding 0
Posted 10 months ago
Adopting tougher emissions standards, new eco-label in Washington 3
Posted 10 months ago
Will Congress get a whiff and vote to clean up dirty diesel engines? 1
Posted 10 months, 1 week ago
Jeremy Piven’s sushi addiction: good for mercury awareness 1
Posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago
NASA: China’s pollution control efforts improved air quality during the Olympics 2
Posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Start Up, Shut Down, Fight, Fight, Fight

Appeals court ruling closes Clean Air Act loophole 1
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
Soot to Kill

Air in 46 U.S. metro areas exceeds allowable soot levels 1
Posted 11 months, 1 week ago
This Stinks

Bush admin exempts farms from reporting toxic fumes 4
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago