Prominent Atlanta environmental health expert Howard Frumkin was reassigned last week to a position within the CDC “with less authority, a smaller staff and a lower budget,” according to the investigative website ProPublica. A September 2008 congressional commiettee report detailed, which was covered extensively by ProPublica, detailed Frumkin’s role in a controversy over a flawed CDC [...]

Scientists believe they’ve found a key cause for the mysterious decline in honeybees that have hit the American bee colonies particularly hard. It’s weakened immune systems linked to reduced biodiversity of plant life, according to a study by the French National Institute for Agriculture Research. The honeybee decline is a more important issue than most of [...]

Georgia-Pacific Wood Products launched a campaign Tuesday to laud its own sustainability efforts at the 2010 International Builders Show. “The company also received notification that they have received chain-of-custody certification from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI),” according to Mother Nature Network. Ironic — isn’t it — that the Georgia-Pacific is owned by the harshly anti-environmental Koch family?

AJCs Rick Badie on the “Technology of Sustainable Design” exhibit at the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center. The exhibit, which runs through Feb. 27, may be worth checking out if you’re interested in green building and design.

Here are five vegetarian restaurants worth checking out in Atlanta. Although I wouldn’t say that they constitute the “top five vegetarian restaurants” in Atlanta (as the post intimates), I’ll vouch for each of them. My favorite of the five: Sunflower Cafe.

Georgia may rank near the very bottom when it comes to green living. When it comes to green death, however, we’re right near the top. Two of the nation’s 15 “exclusively green” cemeteries are in Atlanta, according to the AJC. And the proponent of one in Macon is planning to sue the county commission over an ordinance [...]

Surprise, surprise. Southern Co. opposes reporting its greenhouse gas emissions to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This despite the fact that Coca-Cola, UPS and six other large Georgia-based companies voluntarily report their emissions to the EPA already, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reports. Of course, Southern Co., which owns Georgia Power, is a far larger emitter of carbon [...]

A stimulus-funded rebate program will allow Georgians to get rebates of up to $1,200 per home for purchasing energy-efficient appliances. The program kicks off on purchases made after Feb. 12. For more information, go to Georgia Public Broadcasting.

The Wall Street Journal outlines how the U.S. Department of Energy is funding companies that are making transition to clean energy economy. Much of the money mentioned in the story comes from President Obama’s stimulus package

Thursday’s glowing profile of Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent in Fortune magazine online couldn’t contrast more starkly with activists’ lampooning last weekend of the Atlanta-based company for alleged environmental and human rights shortcomings. Fortune writer Marc Gunther points out that Kent is one in a small handful of CEOs from big American companies who bothered to make [...]