A detailed new energy report argues that the natural gas industry has propagated dangerously false claims about natural gas production supply, cost and environmental impact. The report, “Will Natural Gas Fuel America in the 21st Century” is authored by leading geoscientist and Post Carbon Institute Fellow J. David Hughes.

The Endangered Species Coalition proudly announces the winners of the 2011 national Endangered Species Day Youth Art Contest. The art contest is an integral part of the sixth annual national Endangered Species Day, May 20, 2011, and is a great opportunity to learn about and promote the conservation of endangered species through art.

U.S. State Department Secretary Hillary Clinton will make oil spill response a key issue at the Arctic Council meeting on Thursday. If you need other voices in any stories on the issues facing the Council at today’s summit, consider Earthjustice attorneys who have expertise in the fields of offshore oil spill prevention and response, climate change and short-lived forcers like black carbon.

Nineteen groups have signed onto a letter to Connecticut Governor Dannel P. Malloy urging him to leave funding in environmental programs as proposed in the “Plan B” contingency budget options.

By BETH BYE and BILL FINCH Bottled water has become ubiquitous in our culture, but many people are unaware of the harmful effects that drinking bottled water has on our environment — and on our state and city budgets. Over the last 30 years, the bottled water industry has, through misleading marketing, manufactured public demand
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Wind power is one of the most cost-effective sources of electricity available, capable of generating power at prices competitive with new natural gas plants and cheaper than new coal and nuclear plants. Across the US, abundant wind resources can be harnessed to produce reliable and clean electricity.

Coal Cares (www.coalcares.org) purported to “make asthma cool” with decorative and pop-culture inspired inhalers (“The Bieber,” “Harry Potter,” “My Little Pony,” and “My First Inhaler” were particular favorites). The site also announced that Peabody would offer $10 coupons towards asthma medication (about 5%-20% of the cost) for families living within 200 miles of a coal-fired
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Midwest flooding is a taste of climate change in its early stages. We’ve got to fight back, and fast. There’s no one we can shoot to make global warming disappear. But we could, if we wanted, devote the scale of resources we’ve spent in the last decade invading Iraq and Afghanistan to the task of
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Three Connecticut citizens and two environmental groups from the Nutmeg State will be honored tomorrow in Boston’s Faneuil Hall as EPA presented its annual Environmental Merit Awards for 2011. Click this environmental headline for more information on this story.

The Connecticut iMatter March for the Environment Sunday was a huge success, reports Carra Cheslin of Connecticut College and a march organizer.

Sunday’s march included representatives from Conn, Yale, Sierra Club, Summer of Solutions Hartford, Northeastern U, and some Hartford local residents as well.

This march was part of an international day of marches whose combined message was that “as youth we matter because our generation deserves a planet worth inheriting.”

A TransCanada pipeline that carries tar sands oil into the U.S. from Canada had to be shut down for inspection Saturday after spilling about 21,000 gallons of tar sands oil in southeastern North Dakota, according to news reports.

Renewable energy could account for almost 80% of the world’s energy supply within four decades – but only if governments pursue the policies needed to promote green power, according to a landmark report published on Monday. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the world’s leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations,
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The Clean Water America Alliance has given the 2011 U.S. Water Prize to the City of Los Angeles, Milwaukee Water Council, National Great Rivers Research & Education Center, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, and the Pacific Institute.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy today announced that the State of Connecticut has been awarded $30 million in federal funding for the third phase of the New Haven-Hartford-Springfield (NHHS) high-speed intercity passenger rail project.

The money is part of the $2 billion that the U.S. Department of Transportation opened for applications in March after it was declined by Florida Governor Rick Scott.

Another act of the American chestnut tree’s comeback attempt was carried out at the Litchfield Hills Audubon Society’s Wigwam Brook Orchard on Saturday. Read more here: Chestnut comeback seeded at Audubon site The Republican-American. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet
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The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) is celebrating its 70th anniversary, and what a better way to highlight the years than by canoeing the length of the Housatonic River, the Register Citizen reports. Click on this environmental headline for more about this story.

The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection and Friends of Keney Park, Hartford, today celebrated the work being done on over 15 miles of trails located in Keney Park, through a Recreational Trails Grant of $96,000 awarded to Friends of Keney Park.

The Rockfall Foundation has awarded grants for environmental projects to 13 groups in Middlesex County. A total of more than $20,000 has been distributed to libraries, schools and other nonprofit organizations, the Middletown Press reports.

WASHINGTON – May 5 – By a vote of 241-171, the House of Representatives today blocked the repeal of just one of the many taxpayer-funded subsidies that benefit big oil companies. House Republicans voted in lockstep, joined by seven Democrats, to protect the Section 199 domestic manufacturing tax credit, a multibillion-dollar giveaway for the five
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Regardless of what the wind industry would like us to believe, property values are impacted by nearby industrial wind turbines. Wind proponents insist that property values are not impacted by wind turbines; they argue there will always be a buyer; it is simply a matter of taste.