Guest blogger Sara Snow is green lifestyle expert and board member for Discovery's 24/7 future-forward network Planet Green. Last week Lisa Jackson, Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, sent out a memo to all employees outlining... Full Article at Treehugger

On mountain top removal, for example, EPA and the Army Corps seem to me to have got it about right. West Virginia's coal industry reps and the Governor are on their anti-EPA soap boxes, grumbling like tea 'par-tiers,' while environmental groups and... Full Article at Treehugger

It's Official, Honda Needs to Go Full Hybrid A lot of people have been not-so-patiently waiting for the production version of the Honda CR-Z hybrid every since the concept version was introduced a couple years ago. Fans of the original CR-X HF have been... Full Article at Treehugger

Some of these claims involve chemicals in products specifically intended for use by children under 14 years of age. EWG concludes: Industry has a stranglehold on every aspect of information needed to implement even the most basic health protections... Full Article at Treehugger

Radon is relatively easy and cheap to test for--it just takes a bit of effort. And a combination of lack of awareness and lack of effort is in essence leaving some 20,000 Americans dead every year. How Radon Works According to the Environmental Health... Full Article at Treehugger

Via Flickr The Environmental Protection Agency sure has changed a lot since President Obama took over the government and installed Lisa Jackson as head of the EPA. The agency has issued new mileage standards for vehicles, which requires car makers by... Full Article at Treehugger

Since the path has been cleared for the EPA to step into the breech and regulate CO2 as a pollutant, even if Congress doesn't think it a worthwhile thing, the possibility has been hanging out there as a trump card. Well, all as two recent articles... Full Article at Treehugger

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition's Janet Keeting put things a bit more bluntly: Sadly, the coal industry's undue influence over decision-makers has traded people's health, communities, and water for profit. We're shooting ourselves in the future. ... Full Article at Treehugger

Sen. Lisa Mukowski Photo via Flickr Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) will soon be allowed to offer an amendment to Senate debt legislation to strip the EPA of its ability, given to it under a Supreme Court decision and the Endangered Species Act, to... Full Article at Treehugger

A federal court in New York invalidated the EPA's approval of the pesticide spirotetramat (manufactured by Bayer CropScience under the trade names Movento and Ultor) due to its potential harm to honey bees and ordered the agency to reevaluate the... Full Article at Treehugger

According to Grist, the EPA said it filed 387 new criminal cases in fiscal 2009—the most in five years—and reached settlements that will cost polluters $5.4 billion to comply with environmental laws. You can look up violations by category: Air (Clean... Full Article at Planet Green

Image: Adrian Tomine Clean stoves have hit the big time, or at least attracted the attention of the EPA, World Health Organization, United Nations, and Oakridge National Laboratory, all of whom have taken an interest in cheap, hi-tech stoves and their... Full Article at Treehugger

With $5.4 billion invested in 2009 alone in pollution controls, clean-up for land and water, and environmental projects, it's only appropriate that the public know what's happening with those funds, let alone with the polluters in their area. From the... Full Article at Treehugger

For nearly 40 years, has been the one day when even the least eco-minded trade their apathy for (usually) a spade and a tree sapling. From its start as a counter-culture demonstration in 1970--which led to the formation of the EPA and to bills... Full Article at Planet Green

The supposed basis of the NCBA's gripes is the yet-to-be-determined role of humans in climate change. Tamara Thies, chief environmental counsel for the association says this: In a harbinger of environmental battles to come, the National Cattlemen's... Full Article at Treehugger

Long story short: in the1990's Duke Energy's Gallagher Coal-Fired Plant ducked 'prevention of significant deterioration' regs, either by increasing the plant's generation capacity or by otherwise changing operations in a manner not consistent with... Full Article at Treehugger

Matt's coverage on the final hours of COP15 in Copenhagen to the one year anniversary of the massive coal ash spill at TVA's Kingston plant, called by the EPA as "one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in history," a lot happened this... Full Article at Treehugger

Here's a video from last year. It shows some of the damage. When we think about coal, we mostly think about burning it and mining it, but the TVA spill should burn into our memories the fact that disposing of all that coal ash can lead to a whole other... Full Article at Treehugger