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EPA proposes new controls on sulfur and nitrogen oxide pollution from power...
From Green Right Now Reports As Congress settles in to debate how to control the primary greenhouse gas contributor, carbon dioxide, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today it’s going...
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Where did all the oil go? Look out below
From Green Right Now Reports Still wondering where all the oil from the BP spill ended up? To the chagrin of those who would prefer to think it magically disappeared, scientists on a research vessel...
View ArticleWhy buying organic matters
From Green Right Now Reports If you value your drinking water, food, local economy, farmers, children, adults, animals, lakes, streams, oceans, heck, anything about the natural world at all, from the...
View Article300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 seconds
From Green Right Now Reports This awesome capsulization of the industrial age by the Bay-Area Post Carbon Institute recently won a YouTube award for best non-profit video. It’s must-see viewing for...
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Philly dog contest winners will spread the word on doo’ing right by the...
From Green Right Now Reports The Philadelphia Water Department and the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary have been working like dogs to make a point about poop. The point: Dog poo is not...
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Trade standards and tariffs would drive greener practices in China,...
From Green Right Now Reports Trade and foreign direct investment can have a positive effect on the serious environmental degradation confronting China, according to political scientist Ka Zeng at the...
View ArticleTriad Mining agrees to clean up streams feeding Indiana’s White River
From Green Right Now Reports The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that Triad Mining Inc., the owner and operator of 31 surface mines in...
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The state of our oceans, in a clamshell
From Green Right Now Reports Our oceans, long taken for granted, are being stressed by pollution, over-fishing and climate change. Plastic gyres, swirling pools of plastic refuse, occupy several spots...
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Rivers are largest source of mercury in Arctic Ocean, study says
A new study suggests that rivers may be funneling far more toxic mercury into the Arctic Ocean than previously believed, a finding that may portend even greater mercury concentrations in the future as...
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What is Missing? Maya Lin creates a fluid, social monument to our injured planet
From Green Right Now Maya Lin, known for creating the aesthetically spare and inspiring Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington D.C., has produced another powerful tribute designed to prompt a...
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Don’t hesitate to quit idling — here’s why
From Green Right Now Reports As conservation tips go, the suggestion to quit idling might seem like small stuff. Indeed, it is more meaningful to give up your car for a day and take the train, car...
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Quit gobbling up disposables — get your sandwiches into reusables
Green Right Now Reports Does the new school year find you stocking up on zip baggies and cases of plastic water bottles? There’s no need! You can cross those disposables right off the grocery list by...
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Blue and green honey is linked to M&M factory waste in France
From Yale Environment 360 Beekeepers in northeastern France say they have produced batches of unusually colored honey in recent months as a result of bees carrying unknown substances from a nearby...
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Why the ‘China excuse’ to bail out on climate action doesn’t work
Andrew Winston For anyone who doesn’t want to reduce carbon emissions, China seems like a great scapegoat. The defenders of the status quo argue that U.S. companies will be at a disadvantage if we tax...
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Happy Earth Day 2013 . . . Americans are turning activist
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now I remember 2007, when we started this website. People were tip-toeing toward greener behaviors. Activists were writing kids’ books explaining the greenhouse effect...
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What middle-size cities offer: Clean Air
From Green Right Now Reports The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report had some sobering news for many big metro areas last week. Not only do the central cities suffer from poor air...
View ArticleManchester neighborhood in Houston: Ground zero for fossil fuel emissions
From Green Right Now Reports Life can be risky along the Houston ship channel, where some poor neighborhoods have ended up blanketed by air pollution — from the highway, the ships and industrial...
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Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico blooming big
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now It’s funny how we take the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico for granted now. No one ever talks about how one would get rid of a dead zone, only how big this year’s...
View ArticleKeystone XL — Americans are divided
GRN Reports: Dozens of national and regional groups — Sierra Club, 350.org, the Natural Resources Defense Fund, Greenpeace, Bold Nebraska, Tar Sands Blockade — have been fighting the Keystone XL...
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Atrazine still polluting water; Texas tests show high levels
GRN Reports Atrazine, banned in Europe but freely used by agriculture in the US, has become notorious as the pesticide that causes frogs to change genders. Exposed to Atrazine, even in tiny amounts,...
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