Gore moves the debate toward using 100% renewable power sources in ten years.
Showcase of overlooked environment-related news stories from the past week.
What does more than $1 Billion in campaign spending mean for the environment? We’d like to know what the Presidential candidates are doing to limit their campaign’s envirohuman impact!
Sustainability regarding both energy and commodity consumption has to be more of an issue in the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. Whether you are paying record prices for gas (hopefully you consider using public transit if it’s available and you do not already) or you see the price of pretty much everything creep up [...]
Story quoted from the AP on May 20, 2008. Report Charges Interference on Emissions
The story begins:
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency initially supported giving California full or partial permission to limit tailpipe emissions, but reversed himself after hearing from the White House, a Congressional report says.
Sounds like politicians meddling in science-based decisions for [...]
Polar bears have been listed on the “Endangered Species” list, although environmentalists did not get the win they had hoped for with this case. They had wanted for this to push legislation to combat global warming.
From the New York Times’ May 15, 2008 story, “Polar Bear Is Made a Protected Species,” we will get [...]
Many have asked, “Why has this story barely been covered by mainstream media outlets?” and, “How can we get them to cover the Gade story?”
The answer can be as simple or nuanced as you want it to be.
The simple answer is that you have the potential to put this on the map. Right now I’m [...]
If you have been following the controversy over why Mary Gade was forced to resign from her post as head of the U.S. EPA’s Region 5 Office in Chicago, you may have encountered the question, “So what? People get fired unfairly all the time. Why does this matter so much?”
If you’re just joining [...]
Readers are contacting EnviroHumanImpact, curious about what has happened in the firing/forced resignation of Mary Gade, who until recently was head of the U.S. EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago. She contends that this is about a dispute regarding dioxin cleanup between the EPA, specifically her office, and Dow Chemical.
You can read our [...]
It can ruin the warm and coziest of early morning wake-ups, no it’s not the piercing buzz of the alarm clock, it’s the slush of water under your feet immediately after turning on the shower. The culprit: a completely or partially clogged bath tub, shower drain, typically caused by hair and other various nasties.
While [...]
