Photo by Here in Van Nuys via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr The chief of the Environmental Protection Agency is testifying to a Congress panel that he was not pressured into shutting down California's attempts to create its own global-warming laws: "It was Johnson's first appearance on Capitol Hill since he acted last month, and he drew the ire of not only Boxer, his usual critic, but other Democratic senators whose states......

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,......

Two people were killed and four critically injured in an explosion at a test site for small rocket engines at Mojave Airport in Kern County. Will Villaraigosa intervene on behalf of NBC Universal — corporate parent of Telemundo — and its new $3-billion development plan? Courtney Love reveals on her MySpace blog that she wants her old face back. Oops: leaked memo reveals that Home Depot tried to stack a City Council meeting with......

This montage by Kelly Gallaher is upsetting enough to make me want to storm Capitol Hill and Wall Street to begin a mass boycott of the products sold by all of the big campaign-donating corporations until our Congress is forced to get American soldiers out of Iraq. Given that something drastic like a true boycott has not yet happened, I am going to agree with the Gallaher's montage accusation that we are all too......

We'd like to start this week's run-down by wishing a very happy birthday to parent blog Gothamist, which turned four on Friday. If it wasn't for them, the rest of us wouldn't be here. They celebrated their birthday by nabbing an interview with Entourage star Adrian Grenier, who misses NYC public transportation when he's working in LA. They also reported on NYU students protesting a band whose name is also known as a slur,......