environmentalists

Is Obama Bad for the Environment?

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Mon, 09/05/2011 - 22:55

Greens are mad at the President after he abandoned a promise to tighten air pollution regulations. But do environmentalists have anywhere else to go?


 

The BP Oil Spill: How Healthy Is the Gulf One Year Later?

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Tue, 04/19/2011 - 03:00

The Gulf oil spill wasn't as bad as many environmentalists feared, but the ultimate outcome is still far from certain


 

Environmentalists Warn of Natural Debt as Budget Cuts Loom

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Tue, 02/22/2011 - 02:30

Warnings that we're living beyond our means, running up a tremendous debt that will one day cause catastrophe, apply not just to public spending but the environment as well


 

What Killed the Whales on Ireland's Rutland Island?

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 11/11/2010 - 02:10

After 33 dead whales were discovered washed up on the coast of Rutland Island on Saturday, environmentalists and experts have been searching for clues on what killed them.

But many already think they know the culprit: The Royal Navy


 

Why California's Environmentalists May Defeat Prop 23

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Mon, 11/01/2010 - 04:25

In California, a coalition of celebrities, philanthropists and tech billionaires is fighting to save a favorite piece of climate policy by defeating Prop 23, which would all but repeal the state's landmark climate-change law


 

Iraqi Veterans Join Environmentalists in the Oiled Gulf

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Thu, 07/15/2010 - 23:15

If gas was still cheap in America it was in part because the U.S. military was paying to keep some level of stability in the Middle East.

Oil had its hidden costs for the U.S.--one of which was the blood of young American soldiers.


 

Cape Wind: Salazar Approves U.S. Offshore Wind Farm

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Wed, 04/28/2010 - 16:55

Despite opposition from environmentalists and conservatives, Secretary Ken Salazar has given the go-ahead for Cape Wind, the U.S.'s first offshore wind farm, off Cape Cod in Massachusetts


 

Obama's Compromise on Offshore Drilling Pleases Exactly No One

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Wed, 03/31/2010 - 18:00

Environmentalists and conservatives are both unhappy, but his plan may ultimately provide the best way forward


 

In West Virginia, a Battle Over Mountaintop Mining

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Fri, 03/19/2010 - 11:25

Both residents and environmentalists are fighting to ban the practice, which has turned some parts of Appalacia into ghost towns


 

Greens Celebrate Cap-And-Trade Victory -- Cautiously

TIME: Top Science and Health Stories  Fri, 05/22/2009 - 00:55

Environmentalists got a long-awaited victory Thursday when a carbon cap-and-trade bill took a step toward become law, but some worry it won't have meaningful impact on U.S. emissions