Frac Sand Mining Outside Beloved State Park 'Makes People Question The Whole Deal'

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 Frac Sand Mining Outside Beloved State Park 'Makes People Question The Whole Deal' Susan and Merlin Calhoun's rural Illinois land is full of the same bluffs, canyons, waterfalls, bald eagles and barred owls that entice more than 2 million visitors to the adjacent Starved Rock State Park every year. Lawmakers Seek To Rekindle Mining Reform Efforts The Companies Doing The Most To Tackle Climate Change First Latin American Country To Ban Sport Hunting NOAA Administrator To Step Down Investigation Discredits University Fracking Study BLOG POSTS Dan Goleman: Lowering Your Carbon Impact -- What's Your Handprint? Instead of tracking all the bad news about our carbon footprint, the Handprinter app puts a positive spin on our environmental impacts, tracking all the good we do. With Handprinter you measure every action you take that lowers your carbon footprint, and keep growing that number. Gene Karpinski: Fiscal Cliff an Opportunity for Congress to Finally End Oil Subsidies Across the country, candidates who stood by the environmental community and a clean energy agenda -- including President Obama -- were overwhelmingly elected, while candidates tied to oil and coal companies lost. Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins: Soot Safeguards Will Keep Us Healthy, Save Millions in Health Costs On December 14, the White House is expected to release updated safeguards for soot and other fine particulate matter, requiring coal plants to cut back the amount of soot pollution they pump into our air. The regulations are modest, but would go a long way in making our communities healthier and safe. Nina Wegner: Photo Essay: Postcards From the Second Most Air Polluted City in the World It's coming on winter, and Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, is making its annual transformation into the second most air polluted city in the world. Eli Lehrer: The Green(ish) Case Against Wind Power Subsidies As an energy source, wind power looks just about perfect: it creates no greenhouse gases, requires pulling nothing out of the earth, and relies on an inexhaustible resource. But for all its genuine merit, it shouldn't get government subsidies any more than oil or gas.

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