Environmental Issues and Protection

Erode to Knowledge

Bush's Mandate From Above

Wood You Believe This?

City Still Using Tropical Trees for Benches

Sierra Club Scores Shrub's First 100 Days

Prez Not All Bad on Environment. Just Mostly.

Truth Out

Sick of being lied to by the EPA, 9-11 plaintiffs use the courts to force the answers they seek

Dumping on Everyone Else

Trash plan relieves our neighborhoods, but west of the Hudson, it's just more of the same old garbage from New York City

Greenwash

Trash plan relieves our neighborhoods, but west of the Hudson, it's just more of the same old garbage from New York City

The Green Menace

Trash plan relieves our neighborhoods, but west of the Hudson, it's just more of the same old garbage from New York City

Unnatural Disasters

How Humans Are Behind the Weather Weirdness

Green With Envy

Pataki Wrestles Spitzer for Eco-Laurels

King of the Earth

Eco-Friendly Leo Rises Above ‘Beach’ Accusations

Green vs. Green

A Bitter Struggle in New York City Splits the Sierra Club

Eco Action

Partial Victory for Dissident NYC Sierra Club Group

Shock Corridor

How a Long-Dormant Law Could Spark a Hudson Valley Power Plant Boom

Trading Gas

Polluters Fight Global Warming—and Government Regulation—With a New Market in Emissions Credits

Libertarian Belle

Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

Power Mad

The Anti-Pollution Fight Heats Up in Williamsburg

Prez Wakes Up in Wonderful World

Friends and Foes Hail Bush, the Conquering Hero

The Dust May Never Settle

How Dangerous Was That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Manhattan?

Nation

How Dangerous Was That Dark Cloud Hanging Over Manhattan?

Coal Dirt Cheap

New EPA Rule Threatens to Increase Local Pollution

Stirring Up A Storm

Enviros hope 'The Day After Tomorrow' will change the climate regarding climate

Asthma Goes Rural, Thanks to Amnesty for Polluters

Enviros hope 'The Day After Tomorrow' will change the climate regarding climate

Still Dusted

Clinton, Nadler call for investigation of EPA response to 9-11

EPA Screws New York

New plan for cleaning up 9-11 toxins worse than the old one

Foul Play

Raw sewage continues to pour into the city's waterways

All Wet

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

'The Great Warming'

Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!

The Shake Shacking of America; The Big Plate Revolution of New York

​Dale Hemmerdinger, the ex-MTA chairman and current landlord, is evicting Shamsher Wadud, who for many years owned the Indian restaurant Nirvana on the roof of the building next door. Wadud is broke and a Parkinson's sufferer, and claims his apartment is overrun by rodents. [NY Post] The Shak ... More >>

McCain weighs in on Sarah Palin's cap

​The ongoing pissing match over Sarah Palin's inked-up gimme cap has a new combatant, now that John McCain has taken a stand. If you managed to miss this earth-shaking controversy, the Senator's former running mate was photographed in Hawaii wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with the logo bl ... More >>

City Universities Are Part of Bloomberg's Green Jobs Vision

​The ongoing pissing match over Sarah Palin's inked-up gimme cap has a new combatant, now that John McCain has taken a stand. If you managed to miss this earth-shaking controversy, the Senator's former running mate was photographed in Hawaii wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with the logo bl ... More >>

TU B’SHEVAT SHABBAT WITH JEWISH NATIONAL FUND

​The ongoing pissing match over Sarah Palin's inked-up gimme cap has a new combatant, now that John McCain has taken a stand. If you managed to miss this earth-shaking controversy, the Senator's former running mate was photographed in Hawaii wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with the logo bl ... More >>

Otarian's Radhika Oswal Tells Us About Low-Carbon Eating, and About Her Own Apparently Large Carbon Footprint

David Adams/news.com.auOtarian's founder, Radhika Oswal.​Back in February, we noted that New York seemed to be experiencing a rise in vegetarian and/or vegan fast-food dining outlets. Among their ranks was Otarian, a new chain whose food was purportedly "based on the principles of vegetarianis ... More >>

Katie Couric's Weather Report: All Wet (When It Comes to Climate Change)

Couric: Partly cloudyOn Monday night, Katie Couric swung from CBS's coverage of the oil spill to the Tennessee floods by saying she was moving "from a man-made disaster to a natural one." That's one big and unproven assumption. How does Couric know that the worst Tennessee flooding in history has no ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg Toys With Charging for Trash Collection, Nothing is Off Limits

​Budget cuts: necessary stink, but potentially smellier if trash collection moves up on Bloomberg's agenda to get our city back in the black. At a recent press conference, the mayor mentioned possibly charging residents for garbage collection as the city already does for restaurants and busine ... More >>

Kurt Vonnegut Tries to Spoil Earth Day

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 30, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 18 Vonnegut & Earth Day by Anna Mayo It was the night before Earth Day. Kurt Vonnegut, set off by the ambience of the Algonquin Hotel, looked more like Mark Twain than Hal Holbrook. He was talking about th ... More >>

Fahrenheit 2050

The man who would've been president warns of an imminent deep impact

Bin Laden Book Club: Terrorist's Recordings Recommend More Than Killing Americans

​Sunday's New York Times includes a somewhat original, overlooked take on the most infamous terrorist in the world, the still-not-caught Osama bin Laden, who released two new audio recordings over the weekend. The article, instead of the standard "Where's Waldo?", focuses on bin Laden's "wide- ... More >>

T.G.I. Friday's Among Those Charged With Dumping Waste and Raw Sewage in Brooklyn Waterways

Because untreated grease gives us all something to smile about!​Here's yet another reason we find ourselves weary of the continuing existence of T.G.I. Friday's.

Japan Cancels Whale Hunt Because People Might Get Hurt

​After repeated face-offs between Japanese whaling ship the Nisshin Maru and the Bob Barker and the Gojira -- boats helmed by anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society -- Japan has called off its yearly Antarctic whale hunt citing "safety concerns." Via BBC News, "Putti ... More >>

Rightbloggers Counter Eco-Nazis' "Earth Hour" by Patriotically Wasting Electricity

This weekend, an unknown number of people worldwide participated in the fifth annual "Earth Hour" sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund. They turned off electricity to "take a stand against climate change." Landmarks were dimmed, but the effect on either energy consumption or awareness is unknown an ... More >>

Cuomo Attempts to Lift Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing

​When Governor Cuomo signed the landmark same sex marriage bill into law last week, you probably thought, "There's no way the 'gov is topping this." Guess again! The New York Times reports his administration will announce their attempt to lift what is effectively a statewide ban on hydraulic f ... More >>

Meat Eater's Guide Reveals Carbon Footprint of Your Steak, Chicken, Cheese Platter

How is eating meat like driving? This handy graphic says it all.​ Did you know that eating cheese is worse for the environment than eating pork? And eating fish is less eco-friendly than eating chicken? (Sorry, pescatarians and dairy-friendly vegetarians.) Learn more fun facts about the carbon ... More >>

Hot Dogs Against Fracking

Eat this choucroute to show you oppose fracking.​ Actually, it's choucroute against fracking. Bark Hot Dogs, in Park Slope, has teamed with the makers of the film Gasland and the anti-fracking group United for Action for a dinner and screening next Wednesday, November 9.

Frack! EPA Voices Concerns About Hydraulic Fracturing

www.geograph.ie​The Environmental Protection Agency says that New York should set limits to the amount of radiation that can be in fracking wastewater before the drilling starts, according to The Associated Press [via The Wall Street Journal]. The EPA announcement comes just as the state's D ... More >>

Royally Fracked: Those 40,000 Comments on Hydraulic Fracturing Don't Change Anything

geograph.ie​Remember how New York's citizens, many of them not too keen on having chemicals blasted into underground rock to extract natural gas, recently submitted 40,000 comments to the state's environmental agency? That public comment period on highly polemic hydraulic fracturing came to ... More >>

Department of Environmental Protection Clarifies Fracking E-Mail (UPDATE)

​ Mayor Mike Bloomberg has had his share of public reservations about hydrofracking, urging government honchos to keep drilling far from NYC's water. The City's environmental agency is on board, too. But a strange little newsletter released this afternoon from the Department of Environmental ... More >>

Gross Gowanus Canal: Cleanup Conversations Continue

​The Gowanus Canal, which has the unique honor(?) of being one of the few water bodies in America that can kill a baby whale, might soon lose its century-old street cred as a cesspool for industrial waste. Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency met with area residents and shared its ... More >>

Gasland Filmmaker Joshua Fox Arrested at Fracking Hearing, by Order of House Republicans

​In an unprecedented move, House Republicans had a filmmaker arrested yesterday after he showed up to a public congressional hearing. The House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment was meeting to discuss the controversial topic of hydraulic fracturing, colloquially known as "fracking." When ... More >>