Highly toxic by ingestion or inhalation of the dust, it can also poison a person through exposure to soluble forms, inhalation of its vapour, or eating fish contaminated with it. It’s mercury. We all know mercury for its presence in thermometers. And we all know what it means for the mercury to be rising (as is currently a major global issue). But what does it mean when mercury is falling?
According to a recent survey, more than three quarters of African Americans would back federal policy action on climate change.
a broad coalition of consumer, economic and environmental advocacy groups has published a report on the substantial consumer savings that stronger energy efficiency and renewable energy standards would bring.
The first-ever report exclusively focused on the global human impact of climate change calculates more than 300 million people are seriously affected by climate change at a total economic cost of $125 billion per year.
A Gallup Poll released yesterday reveals the country is confident in President Barack Obama’s abilities to help the environment.
M S Swaminathan, ‘The Father of Economic Ecology’ is on record as saying that GMOs shouldn’t be grown in or marketed to the developed world, where they aren’t necessary, but should be created for the developing world, to meet the food needs of large populations living in poverty and to allow such nations to develop a reliable food surplus that they can sell to the developed world.
What’s the Pope been up to since the installation of solar panels at The Vatican? Not much, it seems.
By California Lt. Gov. John Garamendi: At an event last month, I joined environmentalists and California Assembly members to promote a package of bills that will help provide a model the rest of the country can follow. If the bills pass the legislature and are signed into law, California will once again demonstrate trailblazing environmental leadership, phasing out the production of disposable plastic bags, polystyrene packaging, endocrine disruptor bisphenol-A, cigarette butts, and removable bottle caps, all of which blight our coastlines, pose a public health risk, and kill thousands of marine animals in California every year.
The longer I am here at the Wall Street Green Trading Summit, the less this feels like anything to do with environmentalism. At some point, when does off-setting stop being feasible, and when does carbon reduction become the name of the game?
T. Boone Pickens’ kicked off a “virtual march” on Washington, D.C. today, organizing the collective power of over 4.5 million people to flood Congress with e-mails, calls and faxes in support of clean energy.
We’re all now well aware of the imminence of cap-and-trade legislation becoming reality. It’s been floated in Congress. It was a major topic on the campaign trail. It has enough support to get through a democratic-led Congress. And the President has verbally committed to such a scheme to numerous world leaders. A recent New York Times article called it “inevitable.”
China has often by-passed the internationally prescribed EIA regulations to go ahead with socially & environmentally sensitive projects. The Chinese government is trying to block public scrutiny of an oil refinery to be set up in wetlands near Hong Kong.
Although politicians themselves may be relative newcomers in the world of communicating in 140-character or less, those who write about and study politics aren’t. And that goes for those who favor environmental politics, too.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson is expected to sign a memo terminating the National Environmental Performance Track program, a voluntary “beyond compliance” partnership designed to enhance environmental policy effectiveness.
The Strategic Forecasting Group has released a new report which details the environmental costs of warfare in the middle east.