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After Years of Saying it Can’t be Done The American Cleaning Institute (ACI, formerly the Soap and Detergent Association), represents most of the soap-makers in the U.S., has announced a voluntary ban on phosphates in household dishwasher detergents. This follows the banning of phosphates in many US states (such as Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, [...]

A new lawsuit filed against the massive Cape Wind project being developed in the Cape Code, Massachusetts area argues that animals such as birds and whales may be improperly being endangered. To read the rest of the story, please visit EarthTechling.

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 26, 2010 (ENS) – Conservationists seeking to block oil drilling off the U.S. Atlantic coast today filed a lawsuit asking for expanded habitat protections for the endangered… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

photo via flickr Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts has called upon BP to start offering live video from its oil spill in the Gulf. BP’s submersibles have captured video and the oil giant has sent clips out to the pubic, but Markey wants live streaming 24/7 so independent experts can bear witness and evaluate the [...]

From the release of the first underwater images and video monitoring the gushing oil leaks in the Gulf of Mexico to the news that Venezualan President Hugo Chavez used Twitter to announce the sinking of a natural gas platform off the coast of Venezuela, a lot happened this week in green. Residents of Concord, Massachusetts [...]

Last week residents of Concord, Massachusetts voted to ban the sale of all bottled water by next January, making it the first U.S. town to take such action. The effort was lead by Jean Hill, an 82-year old activist, who lobbied neighbors and officials alike on the consequences of plastic bottles filling landfills and polluting [...]

The large and controversial Cape Wind offshore wind farm project, only approved to appear off the coast of Massachusetts last week by U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and subject to possible lawsuits to block it from implementation, already looks to have netted a big utility customer – National Grid, a large scale electricity provider in [...]

There’s been plenty of buzz around algae-based biofuels, but most remain energy-intensive, requiring those little green plants to be crushed to produce oil. Not so the biofuels currently under development by Joule Unlimited of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their genetically-engineered single-celled organisms actually “sweat” biofuel, and live on to produce more. We’ve been following this innovative technology–recently named by M.I.T.’s Technology [...]

A couple of years ago Paul Stankey built a little cabin in the woods outside of Duluth, Minnesota, out of a couple of shipping containers. It is all over the web these days and all over the country too; Analee Newitz at i09 puts it in Massachusetts. Now, after building a great reputation in modern [...]

Artists’ rendering of Cape Wind, via NY Times After nine agonizing years of intense debate and political battles, the first offshore wind farm to be built in the United States has finally been approved. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar traveled to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to announce that, despite some fierce opposition (from the likes [...]