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Reasons to quit: Millions of gallons leaking from oil sands tailings ponds daily

Just in case you needed another reason to cut back on your gasoline consumption, you might consider the pollution catastrophe we are creating in Canada, America's main oil supplier. A new report (PDF) released by Environmental Defense, using industry figures, estimates that tailings ponds created by oil sands projects may be leaking 2,750,000 gallons of contaminated water every day. While that sounds like a lot, the problem may actually be even worse considering the conservative methodology used to reach the conclusion. Titled "11 Million ... Read more →

Car emissions reduced but global emissions overall increase Xavier Navarro

Environmental Defense has launched a report about how automakers are improving to reduce emission levels. The highlights of the report state that, although individually almost all models reduced ...

Interested in a case study of how FedEx got to where they are with hybrids? Jeremy Korzeniewski

Maybe I should have worded that title a bit differently. Case studies in and of themselves might not make for the most interesting piece of reading, but this one might be an exception. That is, if ...

Yahoo! and Environmental Defense simplify the green car buying process with Green Ratings Derrick Y. Noh

If only we could put everything on a linear scale, it would be so much easier to see if one thing is better or worse than another. Yahoo! teamed up with Environmental Defense to do just that for the ...

Reasons to quit: Millions of gallons leaking from oil sands tailings ponds daily 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Just in case you needed another reason to cut back on your gasoline consumption, you might consider the pollution catastrophe we are creating in Canada, America's main oil supplier. A new report (PDF) released by Environmental Defense, using industry figures, estimates that tailings ponds created ...

Car emissions reduced but global emissions overall increase 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Environmental Defense has launched a report about how automakers are improving to reduce emission levels. The highlights of the report state that, although individually almost all models reduced emissions in the last three years, the overall contribution to global warming has continued to grow since ...

Interested in a case study of how FedEx got to where they are with hybrids? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Maybe I should have worded that title a bit differently. Case studies in and of themselves might not make for the most interesting piece of reading, but this one might be an exception. That is, if you are interested in hybrid vehicles and the collaborations of very large American corporations. I am ...

Yahoo! and Environmental Defense simplify the green car buying process with Green Ratings 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

If only we could put everything on a linear scale, it would be so much easier to see if one thing is better or worse than another. Yahoo! teamed up with Environmental Defense to do just that for the "greenness" of automobiles. It's a similar concept to J.D. Power and Associates' Automotive ...


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