The first ever U.S. National Train Day on May 10 was a celebration that may have passed many Americans by. But why create a day to celebrate trains?
Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks
You work in an office, you have no control over your immediate environment, right? Wrong. There are plenty of things you can do at work to make a difference.
Ecological and conservation groups are praising a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new restrictions on rat poisons to help reduce the threat of accidental exposure to children and wildlife.
As the presidential primary season draws to a close, it is worthwhile to contemplate this:
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a major tightening of the health standard for airborne lead
Students will learn about U.S. environmental legislation
An advisory panel of scientists told the Environmental Protection Agency that its new air quality standard for smog fails to protect public health as required by law and should be strengthened
IBM on Friday said the Environmental Protection Agency has lifted a week-old ban that prevented the company from getting new government contracts
The EPA tightened restrictions on ozone, but why is the new limit still higher than what science recommends? Critics say it comes down to politics and money
The first ever U.S. National Train Day on May 10 was a celebration that may have passed many Americans by. But why create a day to celebrate trains?
Critics fear the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will adopt a rule in the waning days of the Bush administration that will make it easier to build coal-fired power plants near national parks
You work in an office, you have no control over your immediate environment, right? Wrong. There are plenty of things you can do at work to make a difference.
Ecological and conservation groups are praising a move by the Environmental Protection Agency to impose new restrictions on rat poisons to help reduce the threat of accidental exposure to children and wildlife.
As the presidential primary season draws to a close, it is worthwhile to contemplate this:
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a major tightening of the health standard for airborne lead
Students will learn about U.S. environmental legislation
An advisory panel of scientists told the Environmental Protection Agency that its new air quality standard for smog fails to protect public health as required by law and should be strengthened
IBM on Friday said the Environmental Protection Agency has lifted a week-old ban that prevented the company from getting new government contracts
The EPA tightened restrictions on ozone, but why is the new limit still higher than what science recommends? Critics say it comes down to politics and money
Up until very recently, conventional wisdom held that shipping was a minor player in terms of greenhouse gas emissions. That all changed in October last year. Leaked details of a report by the International Association of Independent Tanker Owners (Intertanko) got into the press, and revealed an uncomfortable truth about the shipping industry -- its emissions could be double the amount everyone previously believed.
Dear FSB: I am getting ready to launch and I need someone to finance my recycling business. I'm particularly interested in the area of government surplus copper.
An energy bill that requires the average fuel economy of all the nation's cars and trucks to be 35 miles per gallon by 2020 sounds sweeping, but don't look for any immediate big changes in the kinds of vehicles sold in this country.
A coalition of states and environmental groups is urging the federal government to curb global warming pollution from planes and other aircraft
Twelve states sued the Bush administration on Wednesday to force greater disclosure of data on toxic chemicals that companies store, use and release into the environment
Gov. Schwarzenegger wants to clamp down on greenhouse gas emissions. Only the US government stands in his way
Environmental saviors can turn up in the most unexpected places. For the answer to our global waste management crisis, we need only look as far as our back gardens, for example.
Michelle Hammond and Jeremiah Holland were intrigued when a friend at the Oakland Tribune asked them and their two young children to take part in a cutting-edge study to measure the industrial chemicals in their bodies.
Here's a fact that may surprise people: Garbage collecting is one of the most dangerous jobs you can do.
Honda and Toyota offered U.S. consumers the highest average fuel efficiency of 2007 model year vehicles, the government reported Wednesday.
It's not just low wages, but environmental hazards and labor-law violations that afflict workers on the bottom rungs. Here's a look at three of the worst places to work right now
As he surveys the nation's landfills, chemical plants, waste facilities, and smelters, Robert Bullard sees an insidious form of institutional racism.
Don't let government deadlines sneak up on your company. Use these websites to stay on top of the latest regulations that affect your business.
With the price of gasoline setting new records everyday, more and more people are turning to hybrid cars as a way to protect themselves against price increases at the pump. But are hybrids all they're cracked up to be? We'll tell you what you need to know.
President Bush said Tuesday he is directing the Environmental Protection Agency, and the departments of energy, transportation and agriculture, to develop steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2008, but he failed to call for a specific increase in fuel efficiency standards.
The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over what role the federal government should play in regulating carbon dioxide emissions from new cars.
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to take up the issue of climate change, some unusual alliances are forming - and corporate America finds itself on both sides of the debate.
As night fell over the 24 Hours of LeMans this summer, spectators at France's prestigious endurance race detected a pattern. While competitors entered the pits to refuel, a sleek pair of Audi R10s ...
As night fell over the 24 Hours of LeMans this summer, spectators at France's prestigious endurance race detected a pattern. While competitors entered the pits to refuel, a sleek pair of Audi R10s kept stealing laps around the 13.7-kilometer track. Already the fastest cars on the course, and eerily quiet thanks to a unique emissions filter, the Audis were also proving the most fuel-efficient. When the checkered flag flew, the Audi had made history as the first diesel car to win a major international race.
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it won't start dredging the Hudson River until 2008, yet another delay in the project to remove harmful PCB's from the river's bottom.
Growing concern about the U.S. dependence on foreign oil is raising more urgent calls for developing alternative energy sources.
It costs less than $40 and, according to its Web site marketing, it will raise your vehicle's fuel economy by 30 percent or more. Customers swear by it in testimonials.
If you're shopping for a more fuel-efficient car, you need to get a handle on what poor fuel economy really costs you. And you'll need to take a hard look at what you actually need in a vehicle.
The Environmental Protection Agency is set to implement new emission standards for lawn mowers in an effort to reduce pollution and save gas, according to an article published Monday.
After the publication of "How to Beat the High Cost of Gasoline --Forever," Fortune and CNNMoney received hundreds of e-mails from readers.
Could diesel fuel be the methadone needed to help solve the nation's "oil addiction?"
DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) - Soon all vehicles in the United States will get lower fuel mileage as estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency if the agency has its way.
The Environmental Protection Agency says it can help drivers save fuel. It has said that for a long time, of course, but this time it's not talking about providing fuel mileage data for car shoppers. It's talking about a new invention created in its own Ann Arbor, Mich. research laboratories
Tons of household chemicals that were once stored safely in garages, bathrooms and kitchen cabinets along the Gulf Coast pose a potential environmental threat after being scattered by Hurricane Katrina and its twin Rita.
The EPA said Wednesday that initial findings from New Orleans floodwater sampling indicate high levels of E. coli and coliform bacteria as well as lead.
The Environmental Protection Agency is sitting on a report showing a decline in fuel economy for U.S. autos while Congress prepares to vote on energy legislation that does little to mandate automakers to improve fuel efficiency, according to a published report Thursday.
There are few sure ways to avoid ingesting perchlorate, the chemical used in rocket fuel that researchers have detected in breast milk at levels five to eight times higher than those considered safe, experts say.
A Ford SUV took a place among the "greenest" vehicles in this year's "greenest and meanest" list from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
There's been a lot of griping lately about the Environmental Protection Agency's fuel efficiency estimates. Those estimates are pretty far off, they say.
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - Until recently, most people who drove by the Betzwood Industrial Park near Valley Forge, Penn., saw a derelict paper plant with broken windows, smokestacks and old holding tanks.
More than 25,000 people have signed up for a registry measuring the long-term health effects of the 9/11 attacks in New York, the city's health department said.
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When the EPA announced in February that the lumber industry would voluntarily phase out the use of most pressure-treated wood, consumers worried about their own backyards. This durable lumber, ofte...
Here's a little-known fact about hogs: They produce ten times the amount of waste humans do--800 pounds per year, to be exact. Why worry about that kind of volume? Because the EPA is about to crack...
Paper The brown classics aren't exactly earth-friendly; just think of clear-cut forests, ruined habitats, and mills belching hazardous emissions. But a paper bag is five times likelier to be recycl...
An empty desk doesn't have to be evidence of...well, you know. It could just mean that you're using some of the sites below that quicken some of the most paperwork-heavy tasks that small businesses...
The market and the state have always been allies and enemies. The industrial revolution made that paradox greater. At the turn of the 20th century, government trustbusters were becoming heroes. But...
You get some idea of how life has changed--really changed--in the new, conservative Congress when the chemical industry has to come to the rescue of the Environmental Protection Agency. But action ...
Here's a prediction that doesn't exactly sound like big news: In 1994, with the possible exception of a much needed reform of the Superfund law governing toxic waste dumps, no major environmental l...
Ethanol made from corn is a cozy little boondoggle that costs taxpayers almost $750 million a year. It will get much worse if the ethanol lobby, spurred by Dwayne Andreas, CEO of Archer Daniels Mid...
FORTUNE evaluated 130 of America's largest manufacturing companies before selecting the 30 featured in the three scorecards that follow. To determine ranking, we assigned values that range from zer...
WHEN AMERICANS first demanded a cleanup of the environment during the early 1970s, corporations threw a tantrum. Their response ran the psychological gamut from denial to hostility, defiance, obsti...
TWENTY YEARS ago, the Potomac River was full of slime and muck, so polluted that not even kids dared swim in it -- and so embarrassing to Washington politicos that they agreed to spend $5 billion c...
Just as you would get a termite inspection before buying a new home, you should make sure that the house you buy -- or now own -- is environmentally safe. ''Think of it as a kind of insurance,'' sa...
When you pay your dry-cleaning bill, do you sometimes feel you're being taken to the cleaners? Just wait. A proposed new Environmental Protection Agency regulation could add another 10% to your bil...
In the mid-1980s, homeowners trembled over the health risks posed by radon, the odorless cancer-causing gas that the Environmental Protection Agency estimates is found in unhealthful concentrations...
LET'S START with a short quiz. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that radon, an odorless gas that seeps up naturally from the ground and gets trapped in homes, may be causing as many as...
Don't buy a Japanese car just to save on gas. As Detroit is boasting in its ads, some 1991 American autos get better mileage than competitors made by Japan. The table below shows comparisons of car...
EXCEPT FOR TAXMEN and securities sleuths, no federal enforcers wield more power over business than those of the Environmental Protection Agency. Giant smokestack complexes, as well as little neighb...
THE SUMMER OF 1988 will be remembered as the time ''the earth spoke back,'' in the words of one of George Bush's speech writers. The heat and drought, the fouled beaches and burning forests, all se...
WHO WOULD have thought that scraping tiny white asbestos fibers off the steel skeletons of aging schools, office buildings, and shopping malls would rise to the top rank in America's long list of p...
The best place for ozone is 12 miles up, where it protects the earth from the sun's ultraviolet rays. The worst place is near the ground: Ozone is a major part of smog. Since butane, a component of...
-- After negotiations with the Environmental Protection Agency, Houston oil and gas company Texas Eastern agreed to clean up PCBs and other toxic wastes at as many as 89 sites along its 10,000-mile...
Reports now abroad of household toxic hazards can alarm even the unflappable. Fibers of asbestos from building and insulating materials can cause cancer and , respiratory damage. Traces of radon ga...
When Advanced Genetic Sciences, a tiny biotechnology company, got the first Environmental Protection Agency permit to test genetically engineered bacteria outdoors, environmentalists protested that...
NOTHING ABOUT the business of treating hazardous wastes seems attractive. It deals with dangerous and repulsive gunk. It reeks with economic, legal, political, and technological perils. Even as pol...
A SMALL CALIFORNIA biotechnology company is battling for the right to be first in the world to test genetically engineered bacteria outdoors, where the mutants might be free to roam. Advanced Genet...
METHYLENE CHLORIDE IS used in a slew of industrial processes, from making handlebar grips and hair spray to coating pills and taking the caffeine out of coffee beans. It strips paint without damagi...
SMOKESTACKS thrusting to 1,200 feet--about as high as the Empire State Building--have become a familiar sight at U.S. power plants and factories. Mostly built since the early Seventies, these brick...
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