Dear EarthTalk: Are plans to mine uranium near the Grand Canyon, as proposed by the Bush administration in 2008, still underway?
The Obama administration has been quick to overturn several anti-environmental moves ushered in during the 11th hour of George W. Bush’s presidency, but halting uranium exploration and mining near the Grand Canyon has not [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What were the environmental impacts of the huge coal ash spill in Tennessee this past December?
Environmentalists’ call for an end to the age of coal—one of the dirtiest and most common of all the fossil fuels we now use—took on new urgency this past December when some 525 million gallons of wet [...]
You know you have seen the ads on TV and in print for BP-Beyond Petroleum. It’s a catchy name, for sure, but it’s not really want it means. It actually means British Petroleum, as that’s what they are – an oil company. In fact, they are the third largest one! I have often [...]
So, what company makes Drano, Pledge, Off!, Raid, Fantastik, Glade, and Windex? And which company has decided that saying they are environmentally friendly means more than actually being environmentally friendly? Yep, SC Johnson. They are running ads on TV talking about how they are using wind energy to power some of their [...]
