You can't blame them for trying: With the White House set to change hands in less than a year's time - likely bringing on board a more eco-friendly administration - industry groups have been pressing the EPA to squelch stricter air-quality standards

The chemical is used in rockets and munitions. Priorities!

Free Geek is a non-profit reuse organization. Its mission: provide access to computers, the internet, education, and job skills to the local community.

A cost-benefit analysis seems appropriate for any major regulation -- but at what point in the process?

The proposed rules are expected to cut U.S. methane emission by 20 to 30 percent.

Appeals court calls EPA approval of bee-threatening sulfoxaflor “based on flawed and limited data.”

A number of states and several business groups are preparing to sue the Environmental Protection Agency over the rules to cut carbon emissions.

The agro giant made contradictory claims to the government about the herbicide Enlist Duo, the EPA isn’t happy.

And the company that makes the chemical, Bayer CropScience, refuses to agree.

Because America needs more SUVs and pickup trucks to be great again

The bipartisan legislation signed into law by Obama in June 2016 is surviving under the new administration, but it needs your help to thrive

We wrote earlier: "Lick that dirty pacifier!" Now we say "Breathe that dirty air!"

The scariest thing about these chemicals is that they are almost certainly in your bloodstream and we don't know how bad that might be.

Reducing the benefits they can count will reduce the number of regulations that pass the cost-benefit analysis phase of regulation

Soon American workers can get more health-giving exposure to x-rays and radiation and help the economy boom!

A consumer product guide compiled along with iFixit shows which brands make it easy to fix our gadgets and which don't.

Sixty-five porters and 75 yaks labored over two years to bring more than eight tons of trash down from the slopes of Mount Everest -- and into the hands of local artists.

Latino students are exposed to higher levels of pesticides. But the EPA and parents clash over what should be done.

In honor of what would have been Rachel Carson's 100th birthday, the U.S. Environmental Agency has an essay/poetry/photo contest for two-person teams. The famed writer and biologist once wrote about the need for children and adults to share the "joy,

Sometimes the most boring vegetables are the most versatile.

New Environmental Protection Agency requirements for its Renewable Fuel Standards program have been released which raise an issue which has sat dormant for a little while: How to calculate the greenhouse gas emissions of a

For many

Some nice symbolism here... WWF-Nepal reports that it has just completed its target for 2011 of planted 108,000 trees in the Sacred Garden of Lumbini, where the Buddha was born roughly 2,500 years ago. Over the next ten years the

The age of vehicular cycling is coming to an end; cyclists want equity, not equality

Big Auto is increasingly coming up against Big Tech.

When reviewing the safety of glyphosate, the Environmental Protection Agency considered just five independent studies, and 27 industry-funded studies.

The information is pretty basic but it's not trivial, and would make a difference.

We’ve all ripped a pair of jeans, but we’re not all tailors. Nudie Jeans has a great solution.

From broken zippers to damaged USB cables, embrace your inner handyman with these quick DIY repairs.

Save your clothes with these easy fixes for common zipper problems.

It's a sign of quality when companies are willing to stand by the goods they sell.

Before buying new this holiday season, think repair - even if you are buying new!

The Right to Repair movement is rapidly growing – and it can't come soon enough.

This is beyond climate denial, it's science denial

Great Lakes residents would be paying this off for 47 years ... but reaping the benefits for just as long.

This is how you get people out of cars and build better cities. So what's stopping them?

It's to time to jump off the consumption train and embrace the art of repair.

Here is an interesting idea for a rug made of pieces of felt. We stumbled upon Julika Welge's Growing Carpet at this year's Designersblock at the London Design Festival, where the bright colours and the rich texture first

As John Laumer noted earlier, there is a lot of useful stuff in pee, but we dilute it with gallons of water, send it down big pipes mixed with everything else, and suddenly we have monstrous networks of waste piping, sewage treatment plants and water

And it's not just lefty TreeHuggers who are outraged; Everybody is in on this war of words

The agency tried to suppress a major toxicology report on perfluoroalkyl chemicals, but now it's been quietly released online -- with alarming conclusions.

From what food to buy to how to access your medical records, here are the practical matters to consider before a pandemic strikes.

US Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne has reported on a compromise between three Southern US Governors who had been struggling over diminished access to shared surface waters. The language used to report this progress indicates a small

Search on the terms "hay pollutant epa" and you'll see hundreds of recent links with statements inferring that USEPA has 'declared hay to be a pollutant.' The source most often cited

These days when your coffe machine breaks, it is usually cheaper and less hassle to just buy a new one. I was therefore pleasantly surprised about the repairability of my Presso coffee maker, which still keeps serving me off the grid!

WIth cooler weather and shorter days, your indoor plants could use a little help getting ready for the new season.

Shorter post: They are " essentially, disposable. "

We should be able to fix the things we own, not be limited by manufacturers' unwillingness to provide access.

But it still only gets a 3 out of 10 from iFixit.

iFixit took them apart, but they can't put them together.