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The Trucker's Lament
Lorenzo Fernandez has been a truck driver at the Port of Oakland, California, for just two years, but he already has a chronic cough and an unrelenting sore throat.
Comments (0) | February 29, 2008
Warmer Temperatures Threaten Grizzly Food
Louisa Willcox wistfully recalls the day she and three friends were hiking in Wyoming, not far from Yellowstone, when they stumbled upon a giant whitebark pine.
Comments (1) | February 29, 2008
Cars in the Courtroom
Seventeen states have adopted or are in the process of adopting rigorous auto emissions standards, based on those passed in California in 2005.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
Costa Rica Goes Carbon Neutral
Costa Rica's natural splendor, coastal beauty, and laid-back attitude have transformed it into an ecotourism hotspot. It also happens to get 94 percent of its energy supply from renewable sources: wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower among them.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
Now Arriving at JFK...
New York City's Jamaica Bay seems an unlikely haven for wildlife, sandwiched between John F. Kennedy International Airport and Coney Island. But when you're an American woodcock that's just flown up from Florida with plans to summer in the Northeast, the bay makes a pretty good place to rest your wings and pick up a mate, maybe even lay an egg or two.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
Red Sox: Champions for the Planet
Under the team's new sustainability plan, Boston's Fenway Park could be greener than the Green Monster
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
Utility Pays $4.6 Billion Clean Air Tab
Electric companies loathe it, environmentalists love it: the new source review provision of the Clean Air Act.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
White House Double Duty
Richard Belzer is a name you might not have heard before, and if it were up to the Pentagon, you probably wouldn't know it now.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
Winning the 20-Year Battle of the Delaware
It was a sweltering late-summer day when Nick DiPasquale raced up the front lawn of the Delaware City nursing home where Grace Pierce-Beck lived. He had big news for the longtime environmental activist: after almost two decades, the fight that she had started against one of the world's most powerful oil companies had come to a close, and Pierce-Beck had won.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
Work That Asset For a Good Cause
Each year, customers of the socially responsible company Working Assets vote on how to distribute the money they've raised for progressive causes.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007