The Inky had a front-page piece on the movement against plastic bags yesterday. Some interesting parts:
On Wednesday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a law requiring large stores to collect and recycle plastic bags.
The day before, Whole Foods vowed to use its last plastic, probably by Earth Day.
China banned the bags, known there as “white […]

Come out for Philadelphia’s largest Earth Day Celebration!
Registration is now open at http://www.cleanair.org/5k2008/index.html

While Septa’s announcement came out in September of last year, this is an article on Ford’s hybrids. See the mid-portion of the article. Interesting to see that orders from only three cities will double Ford’s production of hybrid buses.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-01-22-ford-hybrid_N.htm?csp=DailyBriefing

sometimes you need scientific studies to confirm what seems obvious to many philadelphians:

Study: Winters in Northeast warming quickly
From 1965 to 2005, winter temps increased 2.5 degrees, research shows

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Mayor Nutter (sounds cool to say now huh?) announced some of his new staff appointments and holdovers yesterday: http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20080111_ap_phillymayorannouncesnewappointmentsholdovers.html
One of the holdovers raising eyebrows is Clarena Tolson, who is reportedly being retained as the head of the streets department. Yes, she’s the one who as Deputy and Director of the Streets department has helped oversee […]

The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary is now accepting entries on behalf of the Philadelphia Water Department for the 2008 “Clean Water Begins and Ends With You” Drawing Contest, an annual art competition for kindergarten through 12th-grade students throughout the City of Philadelphia.
For the past nine years, the nonprofit National Estuary Program has partnered with […]

I know this isn’t the most uplifting post, but stumbled upon this and thought I’d pass it along.
The site Scorecard.com has a lot of info on local pollution sources, including the three superfund sites in Philly:

1
FRANKLIN SLAG PILE  (3110 CASTOR AVENUE)

2
LOWER DARBY CREEK AREA (Darby Creek)

3
METAL BANKS (Front and Castor)