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South Texas Uranium Revival Puts One County on a Powder Kegnew

Uranium Energy Corp has a pending application with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to mine uranium from within the freshwater aquifer beneath Goliad County, but some residents are fighting back.
San Antonio Current  |  Greg Harman  |  10-03-2007  |  Environment

CleanScapes Hopes to Monitor Your Recyclingnew

The company's founder wants to bring the equivalent of the red-light camera to your front curb. Just as the traffic camera captures you running through a stoplight, CleanScapes' incriminating photos would catch you improperly disposing of a milk carton.
Seattle Weekly  |  Nina Shapiro  |  10-01-2007  |  Environment

Greening Begins at Homenew

Virtually everything you do, there's a way to do it that conserves or reuses -- and what better place to start that lifestyle change than at home?
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Staff  |  10-01-2007  |  Environment

New Philly Companies Help Locals Build Greennew

Three green building stores have opened in the city in the last three months, all of them offering certified green building materials and information for making the best choices when building green.
Philadelphia Weekly  |  Cassidy Hartmann  |  10-01-2007  |  Environment

The Economics of Water Powernew

Run-of-river independent power projects have gained environmental steam, but are they really the right way to go?
The Georgia Straight  |  Matthew Burrows  |  09-28-2007  |  Environment

Green Divide That Isn'tnew

From terrific Greenbelt to terrible ethanol subsidies, there's an odd consensus among Canadian political parties heading into elections.
NOW Magazine  |  Wayne Roberts  |  09-28-2007  |  Environment

Reefer Madness Threatens L.A. Portnew

Some environmentalists and now some regulators worry that excessively high stacks of refrigerator containers -- called reefers -- are hissing chemicals into the air that can cause skin cancer and global warming.
Los Angeles CityBeat  |  William J. Kelly  |  09-28-2007  |  Environment

Exposing Big Oil's Red Pennew

Whistleblower Rick Piltz exposed the White House Council for Environmental Quality's plot to maximize doubt about climate change by aggressively editing scientific reports on the topic.
San Antonio Current  |  Greg Harman  |  09-26-2007  |  Environment

Nerdwatching: We're Rolling in Greennew

Canadian e-cars come to B-town, invasive trees pegged as a top eco-fuel candidate, and a carbon calculator that multiplies guilt.
East Bay Express  |  Kara Platoni  |  09-26-2007  |  Environment

Greening Our I.T. Industriesnew

The new Green Grid aims to make data centers more energy-efficient.
NOW Magazine  |  David Silverberg  |  09-21-2007  |  Environment

Poor, Polluted -- and Deadnew

So a Texas power company can make a few dollars, Georgia officials will endanger our children.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  John Sugg  |  09-20-2007  |  Environment

Are Little Boxes Really the Next Wave of Eco-Housing?new

Prefabricated housing is all the rage these days -- who can beat the price and the prospect of actually having a finished home within months of approving a design?
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Deborah Giattina  |  09-20-2007  |  Environment

Chasing ACESnew

Illinois incorporates first-ever energy standards into rate relief, but are they garbage?
Illinois Times  |  R.L. Nave  |  09-20-2007  |  Environment

Green Satellites are Dyingnew

Downsizing the climate sensor networks could be bad news for all of us.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Annalee Newitz  |  09-20-2007  |  Environment

Greetings from Charleston's Underwater Futurenew

Our unchecked energy consumption -- led by manufacturing, consumerism, and plain old convenience -- has compressed eons of climate change into mere centuries, or perhaps even decades. And the heat is on this low-lying area.
Charleston City Paper  |  Lindsay Koob  |  09-12-2007  |  Environment

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