Senate plans to vote in amendment to health care bill, S 1796, preventing millions of women from obtaining insurance coverage for abortion under health care reform. Sign petition NOW!

When it passed a historic health care reform bill, the House also adopted the Stupak amendment, a dangerous piece of legislation that would ban abortion from private and public insurance plans for millions of American women. Fortunately, the fight for wo

Jill Pearson has been legally blind since she was eight. Despite this, she got a degree from the University of Miami in 1987 in biology. Jill is married to Kevin Morrill. Kevin got a degree in 1980 from Cal State in rehabilitative counseling.

The measure would have rezoned the old Masonite lumber processing site north of Ukiah (Northern CA) from industrial to commercial to allow an 800,000-square-ft shopping mall, proposed by the Ohio firm Developers Diversified Realty. Save Our Local Economy!

China is often accused of not doing enough to reduce the carbon dioxide and other pollution pouring from its factories and coal-fuelled power stations. But a new report suggests the country is doing more to tackle climate change than it gets credit for...

A ship carrying toxic waste sunk off the coast of Madagascar, and thousands of tons of refuse were emptied into the rich marine ecosystem. The wreck has had devastating effects on the sea life and the health of people who live inland--causing whales .....

Ordinary school cleaning supplies can expose children to multiple chemicals linked to asthma, cancer, and other documented health problems and to hundreds of other air contaminants that have never been tested for safety

Even for average families, personal computers, iPods, cellphones, game consoles are constantly plugged in and consuming energy, even when they are not actually switched on. This is commonly referred to as "idle current usage" or "vampire energy."

A GOVERNMENT adviser who claimed the public should turn vegetarian to save the planet has been slapped down by ministers. Lord Stern, author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on tackling global warming, said that meat was a "wasteful" use of water

Rebecca's awesome project has removed 5,480 tires, hundreds of tons of appliances, toxics and trash, recycling what was possible. Rebecca has been working for the Mendocino County Water Agency teaching watershed education since 2006, including tree planti