District of Columbia Green News

For the first time in more than a decade, the United States government pledges to reduce its greenhouse gasses emissions Washington – President Barack Obama is set to announce next month during the climate meetings in Copenhagen that the U.S....

President Barack Obama will commit the United States to substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade - despite resistance in Congress over higher costs - when he travels to a major climate conference in Copenhagen next month...He...

Might sound strange but, it appeared as if India had invaded the White House. The occasion was the first State dinner by the US President Barack Obama Barack Obama held in honor of the visiting Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan...

It is day six of the 'scandal' over the hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia’s School of Environmental Sciences, in which a thousand or so private email messages between climate scientists were hacked...

Already dubbed "Climategate", emails stolen from a British university are sparking outrage from climate change skeptics who say they show that the scientists were colluding on suppressing data on how humans affect climate change. The emails, some written as long...

A report released by a blue-ribbon panel estimates if American companies invest about nine billion dollars by 2020 in preserving tropical forests in developing countries, they will save around fifty billion dollars they would have had to spend on cleaning...

All around the world,today there is the matter of climate change on high priority. Before the December meeting of climate change in Copenhagen,the world leaders agreeded on one agreement in the UN General Assembly meeting to cut greenhouse gas emissions....

On the heels of a recent decision to deny 79 of its almost 200 mountaintop removal mining permits , the Environmental Protection Agency is planning to launch an in-depth study of the coal mining practice and the negative impact of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal government's top ocean scientists are recommending the Interior Department drastically reduce plans to open the coast to offshore oil and gas drilling. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration opposes new drilling in the Gulf of...

Federal officials announced Wednesday that they were removing the brown pelican from the endangered species list, capping a century-long recovery that started under President Theodore Roosevelt. The brown pelican is a fixture in Southern California and along the Gulf of...