Topic: United States
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A "virtual" forest sprouting on Times Square's renowned billboards, 1,000 free rain barrels for gritty city backyards and a parade of clean energy vehicles including hybrid garbage trucks are all helping New Yorkers go green for Earth Day ...
CHICAGO (Reuters Life!) - If the environmental movement has a high holiday, Earth Day is it.The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding with the Christian ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - If the environmental movement has a high holiday, Earth Day is it.The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding with the Christian Good ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's supreme court refused to consider a lawsuit filed by an influential environmental group seeking to delay construction of a solar plant because it might harm rare plant and animal species.The state supreme court said it would not ...
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Critics say it's a chemical that could cause infertility or cancer, while others see it speeding the growth of super weeds and causing worrying changes to plants and soil. Backers say it is safe and has made ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The energy security benefits of a proposed pipeline that would transport Canadian crude to the U.S. Gulf Coast outweigh the environmental concerns about the project, a former official at the agency that will decide the fate of the pipeline ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Not yet a year after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, Republicans are renewing efforts to drill for oil and gas in a fiercely contested Alaskan wildlife refuge.Moving one day after President Barack Obama's unveiled a plan ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate is moving toward a showdown vote on Wednesday over legislation that would block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, a key energy initiative of the Obama administration.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he ...
Millions of tons of low-level material are buried at the Nevada National Security Site - and the state can do little about it NUKE WASTE: Where & Why Every week, tractor-trailers deliver containers full of low-level nuclear waste to be disposed of ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The BP oil spill that sent 4 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico last year also created air pollution, and studying this pollution gave scientists clues into how these contaminants get into the atmosphere.BP's Deepwater Horizon ...
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