Green News Report w/ Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

Goodbye Tax Day '08, Hello Tax Day '09 (with big new incentives to sweeten the deal); Birds taking the long way home; "Greenwashing"; PLUS: Solar power...in SPAAAAACE..

Florida homes stink!; FDA under fire (again); McDonald's may reduce pesticides in fries; PLUS: The cardboard box that could save the world; And the Utah college student indicted for saving public lands from destruction.

The electrical grid under cyber-attack; No salmon for California fishermen (again) this year; Banning black cars?; PLUS: George Will smacked down, by his own paper!

The Secretary of State is working the poles -- North and South ones, that is; Arctic sea ice declining; Major Antarctica ice shelf disintegrates as tourism escalates; The 'toxic soup' of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch?; Rocket fuel in your baby formula? PLUS: What to do if you break a CFL bulb

Democrats in Congress join the fight for cap & trade climate legislation; U.S. delists gray wolf from protection; Billions of fish needlessly killed each year by power plants; Flame-retardants in your water... PLUS: Fish you eat are guaranteed to be zit- and depression-free (even if they get sucked into your friendly local power plant)!

Obama gets tough with US automakers while a new electric car looks for a manufacturing plant; Earth Hour vs. Earth Haters; PLUS: The White House vegetable garden makes some people very uncomfortable... PLUS: If you're "green-curious", the Sierra Club has the site for you... 

Conservative (oil state) Democrats undermine Obama's cap & trade climate legislation; EPA steps up with endangerment finding but gets stepped on with mountaintop removal coal mining; PLUS: Worldwide Blackout unites over climate change & more volcanic "fallout" for Bobby Jindal.

Today we're gonna party like it's 1989...in Alaska...because it's the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster in Alaska; and the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Alaska's Mount Redoubt, now blowing up again (and in Bobby Jindal's) face; and the 20th anniversary of the global agreement to save the ozone layer, thus saving Alaska, and everywhere else in the world...PLUS: Poo and Pee Power gives "bio-gas" a whole new meaning...

Whatever happened to "DRILL, BABY, DRILL!"??? Oil industry slacks off as Great Recession reduces incentives to drill; Cities help homeowners go solar & make cash; PLUS: Sarah Palin's new war on wildlife!

We're not just "wearin' the green", we're bein' it!; The "Filthy Fifteen" list of America's dirtiest coal plants is out - is your state on it?; More coal ash waste spills; Australia declares a natural disaster on beaches after an oil spill!; PLUS: RNC Chair Michael Steele joins the Flat Earth Society!

Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen...on ice: new study shows sea levels could rise much faster than IPCC predicted; Arctic Ocean, ice is warming faster than predicted; Obama's EPA reverses the Bush EPA again on emissions - and on toxic chemicals; New American wilderness area loses by two votes in the House; PLUS: Mr. Jones goes to Washington!

Obama's carbon cap & trade plan may get capped - by Democrats; The Environmental Protection Agency decides to protect the environment from coal ash waste; BPA removed from baby products; ATTN: climate-change-denying disinformation wingnut on the move! PLUS: The British slimed minister!

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls this "a defining moment in history", and calls on US Congress to lead the way to a global green economy ... Supreme Court says enviro groups can't sue on behalf of forests... Happy 100th birthday to the hybrid-electric car ... Obama returns science to the Endangered Species Act ... and a Republican governor proposes taxes on free water (in bottles)!

March begins with a march on Capitol Hill's dirty coal-fired power plant; California and China want for water; John Kerry challenges George Will to a green fight in the schoolyard!

State of the Union: Obama tells Congress, "It all begins with energy" ... Cool green innovations you may want to buy soon ... plus you're flushing old-growth trees down the toilet --- literally!