According to the EPA, the economic recovery plan signed by President Obama will create quality, sustainable jobs that will help protect our country’s public health and environment.
“Through the President’s stimulus package, green initiatives will play a significant role in powering economic recovery,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “EPA’s portion of the plan will create [...]

According to new research Children born in areas with increased traffic-related pollution may be at greater risk of developing asthm due to genetic changes acquired in the womb. The study from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of Cincinnati (UC) is published in the journal PLoS ONE.
Researchers studied umbilical cord blood [...]

Many populations seem to be in rapid decline, global warming, fishing and petroleum pollution lower breeding success of the seabirds.  
The ecology of penguins makes these iconic swimming and diving seabirds of the Southern Hemisphere unusually susceptible to environmental changes. Pronounced warming in the Antarctic, as well as commercial fishing, mining, and oil and gas development [...]

Numerous studies over the past four decades have established that pesticides, which are typically applied at the land surface, can move downward through the unsaturated zone to reach the water table at detectable concentrations. The downward movement of pesticide degradation products, can also contribute to the contamination of ground water.
Once in ground water, pesticides and [...]