Will the EPA bow to industry pressure and authorized a disastrous mountain-top removal at Spruce Mountain? Rainforest Action Network (RAN) takes action to call attention to the issue.

Speech at Environmental Protection Agency Hearing on Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling, Canonsburg, PA, July 22, 2010

Short quiz on how the EPA’s authority to regulate carbon could be gutted early next week, with an action alert.

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger

Environmental advocates from around the world gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia, this week and resolved that, a year from now, they would hold a world’s people referendum on climate change to marshal support for the rights of the planet.

Please help. Farm worker families live in homes surrounding fields where the toxic pesticide methyl iodide is applied. A recent scientific study by a national panel said “Adequate control of human exposure would be difficult, if not impossible.” In addition the report raised serious questions about the scientific accuracy of the federal review that was done under the Bush Administration. Please help the UFW and other environmental and farm worker groups ask the EPA to rethink allowing this toxic chemical to be used in our fields.

I’m delighted to report that Wednesday was a very good day for environmentalists concerned about extracting nonrenewable carbon-emitting fossil fuels, with not one but two victories over those who would suck the marrow out of the bones of our planet to leave it dry for the next species to inhabit the earth.

Late April Fool’s prank? No. A roadmap.

Late Friday afternoon, the US Chamber of Commerce filed a petition with a federal appellate court to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to regulate greenhouse gases on grounds that the EPA used a flawed rulemaking process. The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a separate petition claiming that the science used by the EPA is flawed. Lawsuits will surely follow.

Wednesday’s vote, written by lobbyists, may gut the Clean Air Act, with the help of a Democratic cosponsor.

Power company lobbyists draft Senator Lisa Murkowski’s stealth attack on the Clean Air Act!

This morning, the Environmental Protection Agency is formally announcing a revision to the allowable amount of ground-level ozone, aka smog.