[…] In the first five months of 2008, drivers traveled 2.4 percent fewer miles than in the same period of 2007, according to the U.S. Transportation Department. Trips on subways, buses and light rail reached a 50-year high in 2007. Bicycle riding has skyrocketed. Sales of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles have plummeted.

[…] The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) is prominent in political action. Its stated goal is “turning environmental values into national priorities,” which it attempts to do through informing voters about environmental issues and mobilizing grassroots support. Independent and nonpartisan, it maintains a “national environmental scorecard” on important legislation and a “presidential report card.”

[…] The proposal by the agency’s Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water was issued under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act, which protects underground water sources from injection-related activities. Elements of the proposed rule are based on EPA’s existing underground injection control program, which addresses five categories of wells. The proposed rule would add a sixth category specifically for geologic storage of carbon dioxide 800 meters or more underground.

[…] Alcoa Incorporated, the leading global producer of aluminum and aluminum products, is to the environmental movement what a teacher’s pet is to teachers. The company, which operates in 44 countries, is consistently praised, honored and recognized in other ways as one of the world’s top companies for practicing responsible environmental stewardship. Alcoa’s “2020 Strategic Framework for Sustainability” sets ambitious goals, and the company has achieved some goals well ahead of the schedule.

[…] Today, Johnson Controls has 500 offices around the world that work to make all kinds of buildings energy-efficient, comfortable and safe. Its programs, which come with unique guarantees, make a difference both for building owners and the environment. Over the next 10 years, the company expects to help its commercial customers reduce energy costs by $18 billion and eliminate 352 million tons of air pollutants.

[…] Since 2001, the United States has had the second best performance of all industrialized nations, reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 3 percent –– through a combination of increased efficiency, improved technologies, and conservation. The President has committed the U.S. to further reductions, working in partnership with other major economies in a way that ensures sustained economic growth and actual global emissions reductions.

[…] all countries to adopt an ambitious long-term global goal for greenhouse gas emissions reduction that assures growth and prosperity, recognizing that achieving such a goal depends on significant advances in technology;

[…] We have come together to contribute to efforts under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the global forum for climate negotiations. Our contribution and cooperation are rooted in the objective, provisions, and principles of the Convention.

[…] "There was recognition by the G8 ... that all major economies, developed and developing, must commit to meaningful ... actions," said Dan Price, U.S. deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs. Achieving the ultimate objective of stabilizing greenhouse gases will only be possible through common action of major economies".

[…] NextStorm will become part of a satellite-based project called SERVIR -- the Spanish acronym for Regional Visualization and Monitoring System -- a high-tech satellite system that has been monitoring the environment of Central America, parts of Mexico and the Dominican Republic since 2005. SERVIR technology is developed and tested at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. SERVIR's supercomputer at CATHALAC integrates data from U.S. and other satellite resources and displays a real-time map of crisis points.

[…] Caterpillar Incorporated is like a secretive alchemist. Not only does it wring gold from the old, it leaves no footprints. Environmental footprints, that is. Based in Peoria, Illinois, Caterpillar is the world's leading manufacturer of heavy equipment with more than $25 billion in assets. The company takes machine parts back at the end of their first lives. Used engines, transmission pumps and other components are returned to company plants where workers take them apart, restore to “same-as-new” condition and reassemble.

[…] Human health ebbs and flows with the seasons, but the current confluence of extreme weather, global climate change and the shifting distribution of disease are driving the need for more active collaboration between climate scientists and public health experts. Meetings between health and climate experts have been increasing since early 2007, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

[…] When World Environment Day was inaugurated by the U.N. General Assembly in 1972, few realized how critical an issue the environment still would be three decades later. “Climate change is becoming the defining issue of our era,” according to the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), and for that reason the emphasis for 2008 is promoting ways to live sustainably and stop practices that contribute to climate change.

[…] The candidates in this year’s U.S. presidential election disagree on many issues. But of the high-profile challenges facing the country, all three candidates agree that climate change is a serious issue. In June, the U.S. Senate will begin general debate on America’s Climate Security Act, otherwise known as the Warner-Lieberman bill. The legislation was introduced by Senators John Warner of Virginia, a Republican, and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats.

[…] In a report released May 20, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asks and answers 23 questions about trends in the condition of the nation’s air, water and land, and associated trends in ecological systems and human health in the United States.
The 366-page Report on the Environment offers a snapshot of the state of the U.S. environment and uses a range of indicators to sort out the complexity inherent in measuring interactions among pollutants, environmental factors, ecological systems and people.

[…] The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States (US) government with the mandate to support basic research and the education of the next generation of physical scientists and engineers. NSF is recognized as an agency that has a high standard in its merit review process, which is viewed by many as fair and transparent but also very competitive and transparent. This paper focuses on how proposals for research are elicited from the broader community, reviewed, and funded using this merit review process.

[…] The GISN, established in 1952, is a global alert mechanism for seasonal flu and emerging flu viruses with pandemic potential. Its main components are national influenza centers that monitor patients with flu-like illnesses and submit virus samples to WHO collaborating centers for genetic analyses. Around the world, according to WHO, 382 people have been infected with highly pathogenic avian flu since 2003, and 241 have died.

Lunedì 19 maggio 2008, sul sito dell’Ambasciata USA a Roma, si è svolta la videochat "Face2Face"sul tema delle energia rinnovabili.
Oltre al Dr. Arthur Nozik, Socio Ricercatore Senior del U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) e Professore Aggiunto presso il Dipartimento di Chimica dell'Università del Colorado a Boulder, sono intervenuti il Dott. Edoardo Zanchini, Direttore dell’Ufficio per l’Energia, il Trasporto e l’Urbanistica di Legambiente e l' Ing. Michele Appendino, socio fondatore della First Generation Network e Presidente di AME Ventures che, attraverso la controllata Solar Ventures, investe principalmente nel settore delle energie rinnovabili e del solare.

[…] Supporters of a U.S. conservation program enacted in 1998 call it a "win-win" deal that helps protect the global environment while promoting the economies of the developing world. Twelve countries are partners with the United States under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA), which aims to help save the world's tropical forests by forgiving some of the official debt owed to the United States by the nations that have tropical forests.

[…] This aspect of climate change also poses risks to international public health -- from floods, heat waves and droughts promoted by rising temperatures, and from disruptions in the intimate relationships between disease-carrying insects (vectors) and their hosts.

“Changes in environment very often are the drivers for an infection to emerge,” Stephen Morse, professor of epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, told the AIBS meeting attendees.

[…] “You might say social entrepreneurs are those who form an organization whose product is social impact,” he told America.gov in a recent interview. For ACORE, that means driving innovation and financing toward wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy resources instead of fossil fuels. ACORE is a Washington-based umbrella organization that brings together businesses, professionals and nonprofit organizations that are concerned about the environment and want to bring renewable energy into the mainstream.

[…] The United States of America and the Republic of Italy concluded the 9th Biennial Review Meeting on Scientific and Technological Cooperation held in Washington on April 22-23, 2008. The U.S. delegation was headed by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science Reno A. Harnish. The Italian delegation was headed by Deputy Chief of Mission Sebastiano Cardi.

[…] Il occasione della 38 giornata mondiale dedicata alla Terra, il 22 aprile l’Ambasciata Americana a Roma ha ospitato due incontri con studenti liceali del Righi e Mamiani e studenti universitari del MSOI (sezione giovanile della Società Italiana per l’Organizzazione Internazionale).

[…] The EPA, which began operation on December 2, 1970, conducts environmental assessments, research and educational programs. It also has set national standards under a variety of environmental laws and enforces them through fines, sanctions and even criminal penalties. The agency works in consultation with state, tribal and local governments, to which it delegates some responsibility for issuing permits.

[…] According to Daniel Rider in Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR), more than 400 landowners are participating in the state’s cost-share programs that provide financial compensation and tax benefits to individuals who work with environmental experts to implement land use proposals designed to increase the health of the ecosystem and provide sanctuary for wildlife.

[…] Tomorrow represents -- representatives of the world's major economies will gather in Paris to discuss climate change. Here in Washington, the debate about climate change is intensifying. Today, I'll share some views on this important issue to advance discussions both at home and abroad. Climate change involves complicated science and generates vigorous debate. Many are concerned about the effect of climate change on our environment. Many are concerned about the effect of climate change policies on our economy. I share these concerns, and I believe they can be sensibly reconciled.

[…] President Bush is calling for a technology-based policy to slow greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. His remarks came on the eve of the Paris “Major Economies Meeting,” April 18-20 where 16 leading nations will discuss solutions to climate change. The meetings were initiated by Bush in September 2007 to stimulate international cooperation. “Today, I am announcing a new national goal: to stop the growth of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025,” he said.