Environment – Page 191 – People's World

Wildfires – and Republican climate change cluelessness – continue

August 22, 2012 By Blake Skylar

As the blazes continue to consume forests and destroy homes, the climate change that spawned them is continuously being denied or ignored by Republicans.

Germany’s plans to go green

August 21, 2012 By Blake Skylar

If the shift is successful, Germany could stand as a paradigm for industrialized countries looking to do the same.

Today in labor history: The Great Fire of 1910

August 20, 2012 By Special to People’s World

The fire burned more than three million acres, an area larger than the size of the state of Connecticut, with at least 92 killed.

Community group will join probe of toxic Chevron fire

August 20, 2012 By Marilyn Bechtel

A community environmental organization will participate directly in investigating the disastrous Aug. 6 fire at Richmnd, Calif.'s Chevron refinery.

German wind farm delayed over possible danger to porpoises

August 17, 2012 By Blake Skylar

The 230,000-plus porpoises (and dolphins) in the North and Baltic seas use sound to navigate, locate prey, and find mating partners. Interference with that could, indeed, effectively kill them.