The Environmental Protection Agency today announced that they would be enacting tougher smog restrictions nationwide, which are expected to cost industries tens of billions of dollars to comply with. You may recall that the EPA tried to do this under Dubya, but was thwarted because of his quest to destroy the planet. The new rules are not likely to affect California, which has been at the forefront of de-smogging protections for a while. But as ABC News reports, counties in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, and Minnesota are all likely to feel the pain of compliance. more ›

On Friday, Mayor Newsom announced that the TransAmerica Pyramid had achieved LEED Gold certification for being one of the greenest buildings in the nation, thereby boosting San Francisco ahead of Los Angeles or New York as home to the greatest number of green buildings. more ›

Oh geez. That woman who was in that episode of Friends where Pheobe uses Ross' kid to try to get Sting tickets has "personally" invited 6,000 Bay Area Chevron employees to Crude, some sort of documentary about Ecuadorian rainforests, or oil, or eco-whatever. more ›