Feinstein to introduce legislation to establish 2 national monuments in Mojave Desert

With California teetering perpetually on the edge of financial ruin, marijuana activists have seized the moment, claiming that legalizing and taxing pot could help bail out the cash-strapped Golden State.

Despite the failure of the Copenhagen Summit to reach agreement, Mumbai-based environmental scientist Prabhu Goenka says that unlike in the past, the average person's sense of awareness about environment issues has heightened considerably.

Asian giants China and Indonesia have hailed the Copenhagen UN climate summit outcome, despite its cool reception from aid agencies and campaigners.

Joshua Tree National Park and Its wildlife Threatened by Landfill. A proposed landfill just outside of Joshua Tree National Park threatens some of the most precious desert landscape in the nation. Two courts have blocked the project, but the Department

U.N. climate talks fell into crisis on Saturday after some developing nations angrily rejected a plan worked out by U.S. President Barack Obama and leaders of other major economies for fighting global warming.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has withdrawn its Biological Assessment and the EPA has also withdrawn the air quality permit they respectively issued last summer for the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant sited for the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners

We drive hybrids, we car pool, we opt for bicycles and/or public transportation. They burn 340,000 barrels of oil per day. We compost, recycle, and switch to CFL bulbs while they leak 27 friggin' tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate. How are the good

Many banks rack up fees by counting the biggest transactions first and enrolling customers in overdraft programs without their knowledge or consent.One mistake could cost Trina Lee her Christmas.

+ 2 petitions - The government's introduction in recent months of a political reform package has increased hope that Turkey is on its way to finally implementing a civilian - rather than military - solution to its decades-long Kurdish problem, one that ha