Topic: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Is That Water Really Safe to Drink?

Heaven knows we have all asked ourselves this question at one time or another after taking a drink of water right out of the tap in the kitchen – is this water really safe to drink?READ»

Final Word

The Supreme Court weighs in on global warming.READ»

Recycle Your Cell Phones to Go Green

Instead of trashing your treasured cell phone, recycle it.READ»

The Air In There

Americans spend 90% of their time indoors--and much of that at work. According to the EPA, air pollution is up to five times worse inside than outside. Harsh cleaning chemicals contribute to the problem. In fact, one-third of the ...READ»

Sustaining Independence Day

American Independence Day is all about celebrating the values our country holds most dear. And it's a holiday that we usually celebrate with fireworks in remembrance of the American Revolution. However, how harmful are gusts of ...READ»

Go Green at your Local Honda Miami Dealership

 Honda has just received another award for it's continual invovlement of preventing further damage to the enviornment through the use of fuel emmisions. in February, Honda’s Ohio and Alabama auto plants have received Energy Star ...READ»

SMB Virtualization for Energy Savings

Microsoft cited the following information from an EPA report to Congress (August 2007):“The U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency have reported on the high energy costs of data centers, estimating that ...READ»

Write an Environmental Management Plan for a Small or Medium Business (SMB)

As an owner of a small or medium-sized business (SMB), it is terrific that you have decided to tackle making your small business more sustainable and environmentally safe. The good news is that the Small Business Division of the ...READ»

New Meadowlands Stadium Will Be Blueprint for Sports Venues Everywhere

First the Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia and the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida became LEED-certified, and now the $1.6 billion New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey is getting the green treatment. ...READ»

Stats Attack

File under news you can't use? According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans buy almost 3 billion dry-cell batteries every year to power cell phones, laptops, power tools, and other electronics. I don't really know ...READ»

Work From Home and Pass The Gas

Can you imagine what the world would be like with 53 million fewer cars on the road every day? This isn't just pie in the sky, it could happen if more people worked from home. Our research shows that 5 million Americans (not ...READ»

EPA to Regulate Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Biggest Industrial Polluters

Instead of waiting around for Congress to approve the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, Obama has authorized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to work toward the regulation of large industrial facilities. The announcement ...READ»

Can Switchgrass Replace Coal at Power Plants?

Solar and wind power have made impressive strides recently, but coal plants show no signs of disappearing. That could be a problem for power companies, especially once the EPA's proposed greenhouse gas regulations go into effect. ...READ»

How To Pass The BPA Test

Read the news about BPA and you'll see evidence cited that the compound is safe. But are these assertions just exploiting our limited scientific literacy? Here's how to decode the potential obfuscation.READ»

• The Real Story Behind BPA
• Manufacturing Doubt in Product Defense
• Infographic: The BPA in You

EPA's Porous Pavement Cuts Down on Parking Lot Pollution

Parking lots have a nasty tendency to harbor all the oil, grease, and antifreeze that leak from vehicles. And after a heavy rain, all those substances mix together and take a trip to the closest porous surface--no matter whether ...READ»

Water Contamination from Contaminated Wells

It’s not a stretch of the imagination to think that a town’s water could be contaminated by a local well. It could happen anywhere, anytime.READ»

The Real Story Behind Bisphenol A

How a handful of consultants used Big Tobacco's tactics to sow doubt about science and hold off regulation of BPA, a chemical in hundreds of products that could be harming an entire generation.READ»

• Manufacturing Doubt in Product Defense
• How to Pass the BPA Test
• Infographic: The BPA in You

Will Public Shaming Force Companies to Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

It's easy to ignore the massive greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuel, chemical, and motor vehicle companies when the exact amount of said emissions isn't available. But ignorance will no longer be possible if the US ...READ»

The Practice of Change

This is a test: We interrupt this change program to bring you an in-depth look at computer-based simulations. These power-sim tools deliver "that's what" answers to your "what if" scenarios for leading change. Now back to our regular programming.READ»

Best of TreeHugger: The Bidet Fit for Americans, a Blogger Goes 9 Years Without Money, and a New Solar Skin Covers Taiwan

This week on TreeHugger: Could Americans really be convinced to stop using toilet paper? The brains behind a brand new, mass market-ready bidet is betting they are. Also, a 48-year old blogger has gone 9 years without spending a cent, and a new solar skin lights up Taiwan.READ»

F-Gases Are a Major Global Warming Threat. What Can We Do to Stop Them?

Greenpeace branded F-gases (refrigerant chemicals) as "the worst greenhouse gases you've never heard of" long ago, but a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has confirmed that the ...READ»

Brownfields 2009

There are more than 400,000 brownfields in the United States. (Brownfield, n., a property abandoned because of the presence of a contaminant.) That's nearly $2 trillion of underused or undervalued land. The investors, developers, ...READ»

Summer Movies We're Afraid to See: 2 Fast, 2 Renewable

With Hollywood prepping big-budget versions of Monopoly, Bazooka Joe, and Stretch Armstrong, what's next? Here's another blockbuster that Rooftop Comedy came up with.READ»

2010 Toyota Prius to Achieve 50 MPG

The 2010 Toyota Prius is set to achieve a combined city/highway EPA estimated fuel efficiency rating of 50 miles-per-gallon, the highest ever for a consumer retail vehicle. The original Prius came in at 41 MPG, and the current ...READ»

Fisker Plays It Safe, Claiming 67.2 mpg for the Plug-in Karma

When Chevrolet announced that the upcoming plug-in hybrid Volt will get 230 mpg, many media outlets (including Fast Company) responded with uncertainty. After all, there isn't an official way to quantify mpg with plug-in ...READ»