The Global Climate Coalition (GCC) was an industry group in the United States battling reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and pollution. Started in 1989, some of the original members included Amoco, American Petroleum Institute, Chevron, Exxon, Shell Oil, and Texaco, and they assembled together in order to fight any movement on climate change policies in [...]
There is a two-part series coming up June 2nd and 3rd on CNN called Toxic America that I think everyone needs to check out. The show will be hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta with the first night, dubbed Toxic Towns USA, focusing on a year-long investigation into the residents of Mossville, Louisiana, who for decades [...]
Dear EarthTalk: How effective have plastic bag bans and restrictions been on reducing plastic litter and other problems associated with their proliferation? And is it really better to use paper bags, which will just lead to more deforestation? Plastic bags, first introduced in the 1950s as a convenient way to store food, have since developed [...]
I don’t know how it happened, but today I turn 38 years old. Seems the last 10 years went by faster than the first 28 did. Is that what happens, the older you get the faster time flies? Bizarre. Anyway, I am going to go look for some old man comfort shoes while you enjoy [...]
A few weeks ago I saved a new friend of mine at least $600 a year. (And no, not from telling her to switch to that annoying insurance company!) I was talking to the people who work here in the leasing office of where I live, and we somehow got on the discussion of monthly [...]
The Louisiana Environmental Action Network has released their analysis of the air monitoring tests done by the EPA. Can you guess what they might have found? Their findings indicate that concentrations of Volatile Organic Chemicals in the air from the oil spill between April 30 through May 6 may have exceeded the Louisiana Ambient Air [...]
