 | Kansas Bans Indoor Tobacco Smoking, Outlaws Smoking Spice
TOPEKA, Kansas , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - As of July 1, the only indoor places where tobacco smokers can light up in Kansas are within private homes and motor...
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 | Feds, NRG Energy Plan Texas-Sized Carbon Capture and Storage Project
WASHINGTON, DC , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - The U.S. Energy Department and NRG Energy will each contribute up to $154 million to fund a new project to capture and...
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 | UN Appeal for Haitian Quake Relief Only Half Funded
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti , March 12, 2010 (ENS) - Two months after the ruinous January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the United Nations' $1.44 billion revised humanitarian appeal for the country is...
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 | Green Chemistry Breakthrough in Plastics Recycling
SAN JOSE, California , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - Scientists at IBM and Stanford University said Tuesday that they have developed a new method of making plastics that will permit...
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 | World's Top Scientists to Scrutinize Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
NEW YORK, New York , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - A multinational organization of the world's science academies will conduct an independent review of processes and procedures used by the...
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 | Extinction Looms for Loggerhead Sea Turtles, New Rule Offers Hope
WASHINGTON, DC , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - Loggerhead sea turtles have been classed as threatened on the U.S. Endangered Species List for more than 30 years, but today two...
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 | U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Lower in 2008
WASHINGTON, DC , March 10, 2010 (ENS) - U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell 2.9 percent from 2008 to 2009, the largest one-year drop on record since government recordkeeping began in...
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 | Bipartisan Great Lakes Restoration Bill Wins Environmental Support
WASHINGTON, DC , March 9, 2010 (ENS) - Bipartisan legislation that promises the largest federal investment ever to clean up the Great Lakes - $650 million annually for the next...
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 | Supreme Court Will Not Reopen Case That Closed Air Pollution Loophole
WASHINGTON, DC , March 8, 2010 (ENS) - The Supreme Court today sided with environmental advocates by declining to review a lower court ruling that forbid the U.S. EPA to...
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 | Nanotech Yields New Way of Producing Electricity at MIT
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts , March 8, 2010 (ENS) - A moving pulse of heat traveling along a nano-sized wire of carbon atoms can drive electrons along, creating a powerful electrical current,...
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