When companies file as Benefit Corporations, the law requires they take the environment, community, employees and suppliers into account when making business decisions, as opposed to being solely focused on profit.
McCarthy is widely viewed as extremely qualified for the job, having headed EPA clean air division since 2009.
Known as the Oscars of Innovation, these awards include a virus that produces energy and a tool that calculates solar glare.
They join San Francisco and several municipalities near Chicago. - as many as 1 billion birds die each each by crashing into buildings.
The natural gas industry is adopting water recycling and researchers are connecting the dots between drilling sites and earthquakes.
Chipotle is the first fast food chain to serve sustainably produced food and is working toward eliminating GMOs.
The SWiFT wind testing site helps companies and researchers move beyond maximizing performance of a single turbine to an entire wind farm.
The draft strategy commits the bank to financing new coal plants only in rare situations, while upping support for hydro, natural gas, efficiency and renewables.
The ecosystem recovery plan still waits for Exxon to pay.
Addressing climate change is real and urgent, they say, as all of God's creation groans under the weight of uncontrolled use of fossil fuels.