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Twelve states have announced yet another suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They claim federal regulators have failed in issuing the necessary standards to regulate green house gas emissions. The EPA’s rebuttal: it’s not in our job description.

Okay, you say he’s not the Vice President. I say, yet. It’s good news to me. Much ado has been made in the direction of Sen. Obama’s experience. And while I don’t think the Senator quite has the inner propeller beanie that his opponents have painted him with, I myself question his ability. But Biden comes with mad experience.

Step right up and prepare to be amazed! It’s fast acting, 3-times concentrated and cheaper than the leading brand. It reduces the price of gasoline to mere pennies, and it’s 100% effective in the fight against plaque and Global Warming. But that’s not all folks. And it doesn’t stop there - it gives you longer and more satisfying sex, whether you’re having it with someone else or not. It’s that good!

On Monday, the Bush administration proposed a policy that threatens to weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to the point of extinction. This comes as no surprise. Like the war in Iraq, removing the fetters of environmental protection has been an administrational goal since 2001. Unlike the war in Iraq, this time Bush and his cronies could very well succeed.

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s comments about House Speaker Pelosi brings the "Jesus" issue to the front of the line. We cannot lend ourselves to distractions like the plight of the incandescent bulb. There is no time. Accountability is our only salvation, not Jesus.

The EPA dealt Texas a hard blow on Thursday. It turned down the state’s request for a reduction to our Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS). A decision that some environmentalists are sticking in the plus column for biofuels. I can’t say I agree. 

In a victory for environmentalists, and a setback for big U.S. coal-burning utilities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled that the EPA violated the Clean Air Act in 2005 when it exempted coal plants from the strictest emission controls for mercury and other toxic substances.

For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.

Intel tops the EPA's list of green energy purchasers. It plans to buy more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours a year of renewable energy certificates, making it the largest corporate purchaser of alternative energy in the United States. The certificates will subsidize the development of wind, solar, biomass and small-scale hydro-electric sources of energy.

Don't try this at home, but Transonic Combustion, has created a fuel injection system that will let diesel engines run on regular gasoline. The company's fuel injection system dramatically increases the internal compression in an engine, a standard 2.3-liter diesel engine that gets 50 miles per gallon can get 100 miles per gallon when retrofitted.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Senator Barbera Boxer, introduced legislation today that would direct the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant California a waiver under the Clean Air Act to cut global warming pollution from motor vehicles.

Chevron is partnering up with the South San Franciscan company Solazyme to accelerate its research into algae derived biofuels. Solazyme has already developed a process to extract oil from algae that can then be turned into biodiesel. This agreement is on the heels of Chevron's October deal with the Department of Energy's Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop jet fuel and other transportation fuels from algae.

The students expected to be leading the green revolution prefer making green over being green. That is according to a study which surveyed 527 MBA students at 12 top-ranked international business schools where only 34% of the students viewed a company's environmental policy as an "extremely" or "very important" factor in selecting an employer.

Far from besieged forests and melting icebergs, American cities are a new front in the environmental movement.

The amount of new geothermal power now under development in the United States will roughly double U.S. geothermal capacity - enough to meet the needs of six million households.