Mother Nature, that is.  Given the EPA's challenges, we can't rely on it to do everything...and whatever you think about what Washington should be doing better, it's a great thing when citizens step up to help their community.  Tina Kelley reports in the New York Times about Riverkeeper, an environmental ...

The New York Times' Felicity Barringer takes a look today at California's new plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Acting on a 2006 law, the state seeks to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels through a cap-and-trade system involving state utilities and ...

At the same time as drivers are slamming their car doors and heading for the bus, the subway, and light rail, public transit is being slammed by higher fuel prices.  In some cases, as Ana Campoy and Alex Roth report in the Wall Street Journal, public transit services are actually ...

Global warming is already causing forest fires, snowpacks and droughts in the U.S. and is affecting hundreds of animal species. So says a report from the Dept. of Agriculture’s U.S. Climate Science Program. The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin quotes Richard Moss, the former ...

The House government oversight committee released a report yesterday saying EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson only decided to deny California a waiver request to regulate carbon emissions after speaking with the White House. According to sworn testimony by EPA official Jason Burnett, Johnson was inclined to allow ...

Yesterday likely GOP Presidential nominee John McCain unveiled his plan to fight global warming. The New York Times’ Elizabeth Bumiller and John Broder report that it includes mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions.

That means that no matter who becomes president, the Environmental Protection Agency of the past ...

A number of environmental groups have sued Interior Dept. Secretary Dirk Kempthorne for his delay in deciding if the polar bear is an endangered species. As Mother Jones’s Daniel Schulman reports, many more groups could sue when that decision is made.

The Dept.’s Fish and Wildlife Service could ...

Facing a lawsuit from environmentalists to take action, the EPA announced its first lead air concentration standards in 30 years. As the New York Times’ Matthew Wald explains, lead is a much greater problem in gasoline. But in some communities, close to steel foundries or mining operations, dangerous ...

The Washington Post’s Carol D. Leonnig details a troubling audit by the Interior Dept’s inspector general on unsafe parks, dams, schools and fish hatcheries. For example, there could be dangerous levels of carbon monoxide around a Yosemite Park tunnel. Thirteen schools ...

The Washington Post’s Juliet Eilperin reports that several White House offices, including Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, are involved in an effort to block rules to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales. 

They are only 300 such whales left and the death of one ...