In one of the sharpest rebukes of the Bush administration’s environmental policy, the Washington, D.C., circuit court ruled in February that the EPA violated the Clean Air Act.
With some 1.3 billion cows worldwide, ruminant bad breath accounts for 80 million tons of methane each year -- a gas that is 20 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
If you're planning to follow Werner Schmidt on his famous "dirty tour" of the United Nations headquarters, here's what I suggest: Bring your hazmat suit.
Last August the federal district court in Salt Lake City ruled that the Bureau of Land Management violated federal environmental laws when it sold oil and gas leases on 16 parcels of wilderness quality lands in southern Utah.
In southeastern Idaho, within the vast expanse of national forests, wild roadless areas, and blue-ribbon trout streams that make up the greater Yellowstone region, the Smoky Canyon Mine has earned notoriety as one of the area's worst polluters.
Through its partnership with NRDC, and at the encouragement of some of its well-known artists, Warner Music Group has decided to overhaul its paper procurement practices and has committed to buying recycled paper for every CD insert it prints.
From the elephant seal rookeries at Point Ano Nuevo on Monterey Bay to Vandenberg Air Force Base at Point Conception, nearly one-fifth of the waters off central California's coast will soon be protected under the Marine Life Protection Act.
Loggerhead sea turtles still climb ashore to nest on Florida's panhandle less than an hour from Panama City, along one of the Sunshine State's last stretches of condo-free coastline. Just inland, in a vast cypress swamp, scientists have reported more than a dozen sightings of ivory bill woodpeckers, thought until just two years ago to be extinct.