EPA is awarding $800,000 in grants to organizations working with communities throughout the country that struggle with environmental justice issues. Under the Environmental Justice Small Grants Program, 40 grants, up to $20,000 each, are going to community organizations and local and tribal governments in 28 states for projects aimed at addressing environmental and public health issues." Environment News Service had the story March 24, 2009.

"With Congress and President Obama championing green energy, the solar industry sees an opening to pursue a goal it long considered unattainable: European-style subsidies for sun-generated power. The national trade group for solar manufacturers is discussing whether it should push for a national feed-in tariff, a funding mechanism that forces utilities to buy green power at premium prices. Popular in Germany and Spain, feed-in tariffs have gained little traction in the United States. But that is changing.

West Virginia's governor is giving $200 million in tax breaks to a coal-to-liquids plant -- but the public is not allowed to know.

California condors are endangered by their dependency on humans.

Dramatic blooms of algae are choking the Chesapeake Bay and  killing crabs and fish.

The planned U.S. nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain in Nevada will cost billions more than previously estimated.<

Hurricane experts at Colorado State have upped the number of hurricanes they predict this season.

Nine people are presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter fighting wildfire in Northern California.

EPA said it would announce its decision Thursday on Texas' request for an ethanol waiver.