I've pondered this question ever since Obama decided to not only undercut the EPA's new smog rules, but to do so in a very public way, clearly intended to make him seem serious on jobs and pro-business. EPA chief Lisa Jackson has not made any...
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I love traveling. Seeing the world might mean more to me than almost any other thing I enjoy--reading, music, film, Oregon football, baseball. Maybe not good beer or bourbon, but.
Nancy Langston's superb new book explores how endrocine-disrupting chemicals, especially synthetic estrogen (DES) have affected human bodies in the decades since World War II. Exposing the deep problems with American.
So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air restrictions. That's fine, he can say what he wants. Unless it has no merit. Such...
From Plumer and Sheppard.
Obama's decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting.
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a variety of different specific issues. 2. Interview people working on new technologies that could help...
Adam Gopnik is upset that his Cape Cod vacation got interrupted by a storm that didn't live up to the worst case scenario: Obviously, this was a big storm with.
You know what I didn't grow up with in Oregon? Hurricanes. Or tornadoes. Or floods. Or droughts. Or blizzards. Or below zero temperatures. Just soft rain, fog, and summer sun..
Great little piece in the Times on the Los Angeles River. The L.A. River has been forgotten about for most of Los Angeles' history, and certainly since the city stole all the water from the Owens Valley (something most remembered from the film Chinatown) meant...
Oh for Christ's sake: In another sensational attempt to draw attention to the plight of animals, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is planning to launch a porn.
In what is being billed as the biggest act of climate change civil disobedience in history, a group of 70 environmental activists, including Bill McKibben and Dan Choi, are sitting-in.