Ahhh, the Bush Administration. Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service announced that they are going to propose new regulatory changes to the Endangered Species Act that will dramatically weaken provisions of...

In the midst of grim financial news and bitter energy battles, I found a brilliant ray of hope. The Nature Conservancy announced it is securing 14,600 acres of prized Adirondack forests and wetlands that will be added to the Adirondack Forest Preserve.

As our nation gets caught up in the frenzy surrounding the two political conventions, I can’t help but think about the role of the individual in all this political machinery.

Kathie Lee Gifford tests viewers on their environmental knowledge on the TODAY Show and Noah Horowitz provides the answers; his appearance was arranged by Jenny Powers [Watch].

It’s been a tough couple of months for the coal industry’s campaign to minimize concerns about global warming and hawk “clean coal.”

Last week, Westlands Water District filed a motion for a temporary restraining order to eliminate pumping restrictions in California’s Bay-Delta estuary that protect endangered salmon and steelhead runs.   Although salmon fishermen, environmentalists...

I got a call last Thursday from a state appeals court in Albany with some great news:  the New York court had issued a decision upholding New York’s tough new ballast water standards against a legal challenge from the ports and shipping industries!  I...

Nearly a decade after US Steel filed an application for renewal of its Clean Water Act discharge permit, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management signed off on the final permit in January.    The road leading there was a pretty bumpy one for...

Football digression to, um, kick off today's post:  Congratulations to the very impressive New Orleans Saints for a big win over the Colts in last night's Super Bowl.  I was rooting for Indy, but it's hard not to feel good for the Saints' fans,...

“No, it doesn’t,” was my answer to a Commerce High School student as we stood with a group of 25 other strangers at an intersection surrounded by three rendering plants in Huntington Park, a neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles. It only took...