Advocate works to heal the toxic ocean. We've used the world's oceans as dumping grounds for sewage, chemicals, cigarette butts and disposable plastics. We've filled the air with burned fuel that falls into the ocean by the tons each day. [News Source]

Death of the electric car dream. Sky high oil prices, massive air pollution and the urgent need to save our planet from destruction are pretty good arguments for developing the electric car. Well, you’d think so, wouldn’t you? [News Source]

Manatee death is not a case of ‘whodunit’. Red tide is so common now we even have red tide warnings at beaches because it can cause respiratory problems for humans - and it kills manatees and any sea animals in its path. [News Source]

There is no universal fix to global pollution. Some pollution crosses borders. That does not mean all nations should control pollution in the same way or to the same degree. [News Source]

11 power plants will help TXU — but the air? This is one way that electricity deregulation works in Texas: TXU sells less electricity to fewer customers and still earns 33 percent more money. [News Source]

An organic foods dilemma. Industrial Organics: They're mass-produced by agribiz but better than eating poisons. [News Source]

Fact: 46,000 pieces of plastic float on each square mile of sea. From the moment plastic was created 99 years ago, a new kind of pollutant entered the sea; one that took a century or more to degrade. [News Source]

‘Green’ governor needs to cool it. Maybe it's because California has sweltered through a bake-oven summer, but global warming has shot up on the public's list of crucial election issues. [News Source]

Healthcare for the oceans. Pollution and overfishing have stressed oceans; they can no longer resist disease and degradation. [News Source]

Healthcare for the oceans. The oceans are afflicted with chronic problems caused by human activities, and like our own bodies, the seas suffer when we put too much into them and expect too much out of them. [News Source]

Clearing air on California’s success in pollution fight. One of the biggest successes of government regulation over the past generation has been the project to clean California's air. But most of the state's residents have no idea how things have changed, or why. [News Source]