In Oregon, a company is offering checks to residents if they promise not to complain about noise from turbines.

The Coast Guard approved requests to use dispersants despite an Environmental Protection Agency rule that they be used rarely, a Congressional analysis said.

A university study finds that the chemical weapons, five miles south of Pearl Harbor, pose no hazard but are deteriorating and should be monitored.

Federal regulators had issued safety warnings about the condition of the pipeline in the Michigan oil spill that leaked nearly 1 million gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River this week.

The Gulf oil spill drama is about to reach its climax: the killing of the Macondo well. But a setback Friday will delay the start of the operation until Tuesday – and shows that uncertainties still loom.

We need your help to stop the destruction of mountains and streams in Appalachia from irresponsible coal mining. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has taken some positive initial steps to rein in destructive mountaintop removal mining, but even these insufficient actions have drawn fire from mining companies, coal-state governors and members of Congress beholden to industry [...]

For Immediate Release July 30, 2010 Contact Jeff, Tittel 609-558-9100 Susquehanna-Roseland Line: Does Delay Mean Going, Going, Gone? Trenton – PSE&G in its second quarterly earnings report announced it will be delaying the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission lines until at least 2015. The report says that the eastern portion of the project could be complete by 2014, [...]

People tend to pay a lot of attention to large animals and plants, which we find interesting and attractive. We know that bias affects policy decisions; we preferentially protect “charismatic megafauna.” But the big appealing creatures wouldn’t exist without the tiny, uncharismatic ones that form the base of the food web. And those little things [...]

While Chicago Mayor Daley called an oil spill in the Kalamazoo River a bigger threat to Lake Michigan than Asian carp, many scientists disagree. Is the mayor playing politics, or is he on to something?

Done for the day and week! Going to the Catskills, back online Tuesday – have a terrific weekend everyone! # RT @whitebuffalo94: @wallacejnichols Oil catastrophe wasn't just an accident – CNN.com http://bit.ly/c8KxZg # The National Parks and @Nature_Valley http://ow.ly/2ivIN #outdoors # RT @oceanshaman: @MargaretKinney The Sustainability Institute Makes the Case for Corporate Responsibility http://bit.ly/9H5W7r # [...]

For decades, the oil industry, farming and lax oversight have contributed to a dead zone in the gulf.

Brad Plumer in The New Republic rightfully celebrates the emergence of the Western Climate Initiative, which establishes a cap-and-trade system among several US states and three of the most important Canadian provinces: British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec.  “Cap-and-trade is coming to the United States,” he notes, “and there is nothing that the Senate can do [...]