Ford Motor Company is feeling pretty good about itself these days. The company just announced its best quarterly profits this century. Profits reached $2.55 billion, up, 460 million, or 22% from a year ago. Rising demand for their new line of fuel-efficient vehicles, along with an improving economy, were seen as the main drivers. “Our…
DetailsToday The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday honored four Connecticut residents and two agencies for their long-time commitment to environmental sustainability. At the ceremony in Boston, Richard Harris and Peter Fraboni won the Lifetime Achievement Environmental Merit Award. Harris, the director of Westport museum Earthplace, and Fraboni, the assistant director, have cleaned local tributaries,…
DetailsMaryland has become the first state in the nation to embrace a green construction code, which green building advocates hope will pave the way (so to speak) for much more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly structures. Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law legislation passed this year by the General Assembly authorizing the application of the International Green…
Details‘Unusual weather we’re having, ain’t it, said the Cowardly Lion when snow falls on a poppy field. The Wizard of Oz has many links to the sustainability debate. Photograph: Allstar/MGM/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar What comes to mind when you hear these four words: The Wizard of Oz? Unless you have been hiding in a cave for years,…
DetailsThe population of the world, long expected to stabilize just above 9 billion in the middle of the century, will instead keep growing and may hit 10.1 billion by the year 2100, the United Nations projected ina report released Tuesday. Growth in Africa remains so high that the population there could more than triple in…
DetailsMore Drilling Will Decrease Safety, Increase Big Oil Profits – But Won’t Bring Down Gas Prices WASHINGTON (May 5, 2011) — The House today took the first step toward mandating a dramatic increase in offshore drilling while making oversight of drilling weaker than it was before last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster. The…
DetailsNew York Times Published May 6, 2011 To an untrained eye, the fields of Iowa have a reassuring solidity. You cannot tell that the state has lost half its topsoil in the past century. According to a new report from the Environmental Working Group, Iowa’s soil is washing away at rates far higher than anyone…
DetailsCONTACT: EWG Public Affairs: 202-667-6982; leeann@ewg.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 25, 2011 Washington, D.C. – U.S. pediatricians are putting their considerable muscle behind the calls for Congress to overhaul a failed federal law that has exposed millions of children, beginning in the womb, to an untold number of toxic chemicals. In its statement, Chemical-Management Policy: Prioritizing…
DetailsAndrew Curry For National Geographic News Published May 3, 2011 This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visitThe Great Energy Challenge. Archaeologists at work in the Egyptian desert call them “desert blossoms.” Beleaguered city dwellers refer to them as “urban tumbleweeds.” Flimsy, translucent, and so cheap to produce they…
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