30/Jun 2008 | Ottawa's nuclear vision assailed | The head of the world's largest uranium miner says the federal government must do more to encourage the construction of new nuclear power plants or Canada will fall behind other nations in reducing gr... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Red tape holding up lake work | Dream Lake has become a bit of a nightmare for lake residents. The surface of the man-made lake, located off of Bay Road south of Route 149 in Queensbury, is about four feet lower than it was in early... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Cell Phone Technology and the Environmental | The cell phone is gradually becoming environmental action around the world are an important tool for them to use technology to develop new strategies to educate consumers various concepts, including t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Clean coal | Clean coal has become a hot topic lately, touted by the politicians and industry heads as a handy solution to the ever-increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions which are causing so much damage to our... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Washington Times: Uranium Mining Halted By House | EWG's investigation of nearly 1,000 sunscreens finds that 4 in 5 sunscreens fails to protect consumers. Published June 26, 2008 House Democrats on a single committee used an emergency power Wednesday ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Sunscreen or Sunscam? | 6/30/2008 Natural Medicine: Reducing Pesticide Exposure.6/30/2008 Companies Try To Cash In On Green Trend, But Should Consumers Buy It?.6/29/2008 Washington Post: The Dark Side of Sunscreens.6/26/2008... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Resolution Saves Canyon From Mining For A While | EWG's investigation of nearly 1,000 sunscreens finds that 4 in 5 sunscreens fails to protect consumers. 6/30/2008 Natural Medicine: Reducing Pesticide Exposure.6/30/2008 Companies Try To Cash In On Gr... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Washington Post: The Dark Side of Sunscreens | 30, 2008. EWG Lambastes FDA Over Culture Of Ignorance Cosmetics Design | June 23, 2008. Sunscreen Could Be Hazardous To Your Health Oregonian | June . Sunscreen: It's More Than Skin Deep Orange County... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Natural Medicine: Reducing Pesticide Exposure | We re On the Food Science Merry-Go-Round Coastline Pilot | June 26, 2008. Organic Trend Produces Confusion Mansfield News Journal | June 25, 2008. Christian Science Monitor: Some Coastal Woes Begin Fa... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Pentagon, EPA Fights Over Site Cleanups | WASHINGTON -- The Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, including one in Hawaii. The DOD has asked the White House and Justice De... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Protesters Arrested at Main Office | Richmond police have charged 13 protesters who blocked the entrance to Dominion Virginia Power's corporate offices, tying up Monday-morning traffic. The protest against Dominion's planned coal-fired p... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Widllife | Chameleon has shortest life span of any four-legged animal (6/30/2008) A newly discovered species of chameleon lives a cicada-like existence, spending the bulk of its short year-long life in its egg, ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Pentagon spars with EPA on hazardous waste cleanups | The Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, and has asked the White House and Justice Department to intervene on its behalf. The di... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Bush signs $162 billion Iraq/Afghanistan occupation bill | President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for the rest of his presidency and beyond, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartis... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Jaxon | Electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors announced today that it would build a new electric sedan in California. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who led the charge to give tax breaks and other incentives to comp... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | India in solar energy push as climate plan launched | An Indian worker wipes down the surface of a solar panel in New Delhi. India has released a national plan to tackle climate change with a focus on renewable energy, but stuck by its refusal to specify... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | A mastermind of green design | This site in Sandao, Hainan province, has been recreated in the virtual online world of Second Life where the public will design an "Eco-friendly Community" that will later be built on the actual site... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Flood damage to corn not as bad as feared | StarTribune.com content is available via e-mail, mobile devices and as RSS feeds. US farmers are some of the most ingenuous in the world. I thought all along that they would manage to replant an amaz... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesla will build electric car factory in Bay Area | Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger walks with Victoria Bradshaw, Secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, during a tour of Tesla Motors in San Carlos on June 30, 2008. Tesla Motors... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Ebay ordered to pay 40m to LVMH over counterfeit goods | Financial Time ( Free subscription ) | 1 hour ago Ebay was yesterday ordered to pay nearly 40m ($63m) to the French luxury goods group, LVMH , in a court ruling the internet auction site admitted cou... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Nuclear Power Could Be Back In Colorado | Find Local Fireworks Shows. DENVER (CBS4) Colorado hasn't had a nuclear power plant since Fort St. Vrain was shut down in 1989 and converted to natural gas. Bill Ritter was asked about nuclear powe... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Vatican urging tourists to have eco-friendly, greener vacations | VATICAN CITY (CNS) In time for the summer holidays, the Vatican urged tourists to pack less luggage, leave the car at home and have a greener vacation. Tourists have to choose whether they are "for ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | G-8 Catholic bishops conferences urging world s industrial nations to commit to reduce global poverty, climate change | WASHINGTON (CNS) The presidents of bishops' conferences associated with the Group of Eight industrialized nations have urged government leaders to honor their commitments to reduce global poverty an... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Colombia: Innovative system to measure environmental impact of infrastructure projects presented jointly with CI | Environmental Market:Environmental Companies and Organization News Post your company / organization news . Colombia: Innovative system to measure environmental impact of infrastructure projects presen... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Moore rules on greenhouse gas emissions | The construction of a coal-fired power plant in Georgia was halted Monday when a judge ruled that the plant's builders must first obtain a permit from state regulators that limits the amount of carbon... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | League of Conservation Voters Endorses Vern Ehlers | Once again, the League of Conservation Voters has endorsed West Michigan Representative Vern Ehlers . Ehlers, a Republican, has received the endorsement of the group numerous times. As the lead Republ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Climate action plan pushes for solar energy | NEW DELHI: PM Manmohan Singh on Monday released the much-awaited National Action Plan on Climate Change which aims to boost solar power generation in the country besides launching seven other programm... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | McCain's SD Property in the News | Recruiters for the state of California have asked San Diego's independent budget analyst, Andrea Tevlin, to travel to Sacramento next week for a second round of interviews for the open state legislati... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Report warns against delaying ETS | A hastily compiled report warning of potentially dire consequences if emissions trading legislation is further delayed has been sent to every MP. The document, commissioned by the NZ Business Council ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Induced Earthquakes Targeting US Energy Sources | Induced Earthquakes Targeting US Energy Sources Scalar Quake Weapons Being Aimed At Oak Ridge? 6-29-8 GOTHAM CITY NEWS SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 2008 SUNDAY EDITION COMMENTARY BY KAFKA: Oak Ridge National Rese... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 | China Orders Strike Against US For Catastrophic Earthquake May 30, 2008 By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers Russian Foreign Ministry reports are stating today the Prime Ministe... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Some experts question reformulated gas need | Motorists in southeastern Wisconsin pay an average of 14 cents more a gallon for gasoline billed as cleaner for the environment, but the government and air quality experts now question how much the ga... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Ethanol stokes auto-pollution debate | While state legislators attack reformulated gas in southeastern Wisconsin for its cost and waning effectiveness, something else is brewing in gas pumps in the rest of the state that has the potential,... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Is Fort Meade Hazardous Site? | With the Defense Department refusing to comply with orders to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, Maryland Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin have called for a Congressional hearing. Fort Meade i... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Airlines join forces to develop green aviation fuel | Virgin Atlantic , Air New Zealand and Boeing are joining forces to develop the world's first green aviation fuel - made from pond and sea weed the Daily Mail reports. Soaring fuel costs and growing ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Branson: don't run Heathrow into the ground | In an article in the Times Sir Richard Branson, the founder and President of Virgin Atlantic, says that the economic - and environmental - case for a third runway at Heathrow Airport is overwhelming. ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Minister Wong misleading on | Sharman Stone MP Shadow Minister for Environment, Heritage, the Arts and Indigenous Affairs Claims by Climate Change Minister Penny Wong that the Labor Party s defunding of the environment was justifi... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Smoke in valley gone for now, but could return by weekend | The forecast calls for blue skies in the Northern San Joaquin Valley through the Fourth of July, but the thick smoke that hung over the region last week could return by the weekend. The wildfires in t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Groups sue feds to force endangered listing decision on belugas | ANCHORAGE -- Five conservation groups have sued the federal government for delaying a listing of Cook Inlet beluga whales under the federal Endangered Species Act. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Hays sewage plant expansion halted | Air emissions. By Asher Price | Monday, June 30, 2008, 10:10 AM I wrote last week that the water control and improvement district that oversees water sewage treatment for Belterra, a subdivision in n... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Nuclear Debate: Glowing Reports | Rick Tanaka has been stumbling over nuclear waste for years, and he's not happy about it When you hear the word nuclear, you tend to think of advanced, shiny new technology. You may think of boffins i... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Aid Agencies to Deliver U.S. Food Assistance to North Koreans | Five aid agencies today announced that they have signed an agreement with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to deliver U. government food assistance to North Koreans suffering from severe food... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Carl Pope: States Keep Trucking | While the Republican leadership in Congress continues to block any real federal action on a new energy future -- refusing yet again to allow renewable energy . Jim Doyle to make recommendations for ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | UPDATE 1-Georgia court cites carbon in coal-plant ruling | Georgia state court on Mondayinvalidated a permit to build a 1,200-megawatt coal-fired powerplant, citing the developers failure to limit. An environmental group immediately praised the decision,pre... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Funai Shares Rise After Goldman Rating Call on Improved Outlook Bloomberg.com | April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Funai Electric Co. , a Japanese maker of televisions and DVD players, climbed to its highest in almost two months in Osaka trading after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. raised the comp... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | New Study Reveals Increased Pollution | By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer Acetone, mercury, chloroform and high concentrations of copper, iron, aluminum, and lead abound in the waters of the River Neva and other local waterways, according t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | California fires send smoke into Willamette Valley | The Eugene-Springfield area will remain awash in smoke for the next several days as strong winds from the south channel grit-laden air into the Willamette Valley from wildfires ripping across Northern... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Curacao refinery sputters on | By Brian Ellsworth WILLEMSTAD (Reuters) - An oil refinery dating from World War I billows toxins over the Caribbean island of Curacao and sickens some residents, but under the pressure of local econom... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Report: State Death Penalty System 'Dysfunctional' | California's 30-year-old death penalty, which costs more than $100 million annually to administer, is "close to collapse," according to a new report issued Monday. The California Commission on the Fai... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Nuclear, yes please! | Story Highlights. From a gumboot-wearing anti-nuclear protestor, Hugh is now pro-nuclear . It's a viable alternative to fossil fuels and readily available . Do you agree? Use the 'Sound Off' box at th... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Wow - $22.50 for 1.6 oz? Thank | Last summer, there was a lot of talk of nanoparticles after the Environmental Working Group (EWG) and other consumer advocacy groups questioned their safety. Nanoparticles specifically, those found ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Bushfire report forces land management change by Govt | A new report into the impact of public land management practices on bushfires in Victoria has confirmed that the State is experiencing more intense and frequent fires in areas where more and more peop... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | 'Ugly Situation' Causes Cuts To State Programs | SACRAMENTO, Calif. The new fiscal year for the state of California starts Tuesday, and once again lawmakers have been unable to get the budget passed on time for the seventh time in the last 10 years.... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Flood damage to corn crop not as bad as feared | St. Floods and heavy rains last month washed away about 2 percent of the nation's corn crop, a serious blow to national agriculture but not as bad as some had feared. The loss, most of it on the plain... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The 2020 challenge - Carbon Neutral buil | GBCA has recently received numerous queries on the topics of 'carbon neutral' and 'zero net operating emissions'. We expect that we will continue to hear about projects wishing to pursue these goals. ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | UN chief uses Kyoto to call for new climate change agreement by end of 2009 | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that the world must galvanise its will and reach a new agreement on measures to fight climate change by the end of 2009. Speaking in the Jap... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Questions over SOE-funding of ETS reports | Three State-owned enterprises are in the political spotlight for funding reports being used on either side of the lobby campaign on the Government s . On Thursday, Opposition climate change spokesman ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Dr. James Hansen: The Climate Threat to the Planet | We have to figure out how to live without fossil fuels someday - Why not now? said Dr. James Hansen in his briefing of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on June 23,... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Emissions scheme 'has to hurt' | IF an emissions trading scheme doesn't hurt, it won't work, economist Chris Richardson says. Mr Richardson, director of economic consultants Access Economics, said many people still did not get the co... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Governor signs limited holiday liquor ban for Truckee River | Urgency legislation signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday bans liquor "on non-motorized vessels" on a stretch of the Truckee River from the Highway 89 bridge in Tahoe City to the Alpine Meado... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Fulton court stops proposed coal plant | Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore has put the brakes on a coal-fired power plant slated for Early County, ruling that a state administrative law judge failed to adequately... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | SWEPCO seeks transfer to Supreme Court | AEP/Southwestern Electric Power Co. has asked the Arkansas Court of Appeals to transfer proceedings in the appeal by hunting clubs and landowners of the Arkansas Public Service Commission's approval o... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Boise NF-Idaho City Ranger District Begins Travel Planning | Date: 06/30/2008 BLUERIBBON COALITION ACTION ALERT! Attention Idaho Recreationists! The Boise National Forest continues their Travel Planning and is now working on portions of the Idaho City Ranger Di... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Big business not ready for emissions scheme: survey | Big business is unprepared for the national carbon emissions trading scheme set to begin within two years, a survey has found. Only 36 per cent of the senior executives surveyed were aware the federal... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | A Subtle Holiday Scare Tactic | Dow Posts Its Worst June Since The Great Depression The Dow has closed out its worst June performance in over 75 years today, after lapsing into a bear market last week. (front middle page of today s ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Burnett at the stake | As we've reported here over the past week, the White House is trying to block the Environmental Protection Agency from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate g... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Toxic legacy: Scientists ponder task of labeling nuclear waste | Jerome Cartillier How will "DANGER!" be written 5,000 years from now? How will it be written in 50,000 years? Finding an answer to these questions may not seem like a Code Red emergency to most people... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Kuwait environment 'in serious danger' | As many violations are occurring in the environmental field, the Green Line Environmental Society (GLES) is watching the Kuwaiti environment and is trying to help preserve and protect it. GLES, a volu... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Canada's too slow boat to China | VANCOUVER David Demers says he is embarrassed by all the attention he is getting for his success at selling natural gas engines to China. Not embarrassed for his Vancouver company, Westport Innovati... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Coal-Fired Power Plant Hits Snag | Construction on a proposed coal-fired power plant in Early County hit a major snag. Fulton County Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings issued a decision that effectively halts the project. Two environmental gr... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Workshop paves way for better airport community relationships | Workshop paves way for better airport community relationships Despite concerns about climate change, noise pollution remains the number one concern of airport communities in the UK. How the industry h... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Pentagon fights EPA on the issue of hazardous waste cleanups | I killed pregnant soldier: letter U. authorities have identified a soldier in training as a person of interest in the mysterious death of a seven-months pregnant soldier found in a North Carolina mote... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | DoD fights EPA on hazardous waste cleanups | . WASHINGTON The Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, and has asked the White House and Justice Department to intervene on it... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | California Death Penalty | SAN FRANCISCO California's 30-year-old death penalty, which costs more than $100 million annually to administer, is "close to collapse," according to a new report issued Monday. The California Commi... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | California Driving: Footloose And Hands-Free | Californians woke up to a new reality on Tuesday when the state's new hands-free cell phone law went into effect. Arnold Schwarzenegger held a press conference at which he said the purpose of the law ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Rape of Teenager Leads to Rioting | Education Environment / Energy Health Immigration International Affairs NAM in Washington Youth Culture . BEIJING One person was killed, 150 injured and 200 arrested when the Guizhou Province gove... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Suit filed over delay in beluga protection | Suit filed over delay in beluga protection Terror on the trail: Bear attacks teen bike racer Oil industry touts jobs it creates Injured ATV rider rescued Statewide effort nets 69 fugitives . By DAN ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | IT sees the light on green computing | For some organizations, reducing the energy consumed by IT equipment is becoming a selling point with customers and even potential new hires. When Enterprise Rent-A-Car completes a move from PCs to th... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Jay Votel, Washington Times editor, dies | Three Iraqis and a Jordanian filed federal lawsuits Monday alleging they were tortured by U. defense contractors while detained at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2003 and 2004. Jay Votel, Washington... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Wen Bo: Environmentalism growing in China | HONG KONG, China (CNN) -- Wen Bo says he was inspired to enter the environmental movement in high school when he watched the televised tactics of the international pressure group, Greenpeace. After g... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Synagro s growth has stirred up controversies | Over the last two decades, Synagro Technologies Inc., the Houston company whose contract with Detroit is at the center of an FBI corruption probe touching the City Council, has grown into the nation s... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | We are killing the earth | The following article was written for the Alamogordo Daily News (to be published by them on their new blog ): The Earth Day Fair was held in Alameda Park, Alamogordo on April 27. There were around 100... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Schwarzenegger WhiteStar Announcement | Topix.Google News: Schwarzenegger WhiteStar Announcement ..AutoWeek Magazine: Tesla to build Model S sedan in California (June 30, 2008) ..Earth2Tech: Tesla, Schwarzenegger to Make WhiteStar Announcem... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Recovering ozone hole could cause warming | Recovering ozone hole could cause warming . Weakened thermohaline could lead to drought in South Asia. Ozone recovery will affect climate change in southern hemisphere. Antarctic atmosphere brimming w... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Court Halts Construction of Coal-Fired Power Plant in Georgia | A Superior Court Judge in Fulton County, Georgia has ruled that construction of Dynegy s Longleaf plant be halted until it is assured the plant will limit the amount of carbon dioxide it releases. The... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The Nature Conservancy: 320,000 Acres of Forest Protected in Landmark Deal | Few places on Earth are as untouched as the Crown of the Continent a 10-million-acre expanse of mountains, valleys and prairies in Montana and Canada. The area has sustained all the same species ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Toxic sites where EPA, Pentagon differ on cleanups | Toxic waste sites where the Defense Department and Environmental Protection Agency disagree on cleanup strategies, and the year they were put on the government's Superfund list.... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Global Warming's Twin Evil: Wildfires and Drought | 850 fires burning in California alone should be a wake up call that we're unprepared for rapid climate change. Is the Water Privatization Trend Ending? Julio Godoy Why the Oil Industry Benefits from B... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Democrats Are Blowing Our Best Chance for Clean Energy | Take some of Big Oil's obscene profits and invest the money in developing clean renewable energy for the future. This is the Democrats' big idea on energy and it's a good one, but right now Democrats ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Sea Turtle Named Dylan Released Back Into Wild | Humans have raised the turtle, named Dylan, since she was found in August 1998 as a hatchling straggler on Jekyll Island's beach, left behind by her nest mates. She spent years at two nature centers b... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Pentagon fights EPA on hazardous waste cleanups | Pentagon fights EPA on hazardous waste cleanupsThe Defense Department is refusing to comply with orders or sign contracts to clean up 11 hazardous waste sites, and has asked the White House and Justic... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Here comes the judge | The first time I met Judge David Young, he was kind of a good luck charm. He was presiding over a lunchtime drawing at the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Assn. less than a minute ago For people, l... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | DEQ Challenges EPA Air Quality Redesignation | DEQ Challenges EPA Air Quality Redesignation Contact: Robert McCann (517) 241-7397 Agency: Environmental Quality . June 30, 2008 The Department of Environmental Quality, in conjunction with the Depar... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Boost For The Bay Area | Find a new or used car. Submit your own story about your first car for "My Ride" send an email to cars@sfchronicle. (06-30) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- Tesla Motors, the maker of electric-powered roads... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Sen. Cornyn Campaign Aims to Soften Image With Online Video | AUSTIN Republican Sen. John Cornyn s re-election campaign unveiled a new Internet ad Monday it is placing on Texas newspaper Web sites to differentiate himself from Democrat Rick Noriega on energy p... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Judge's ruling halts planned power station (Updated) | In a landmark ruling with national implications, The Fulton County Superior Court today reversed a previous administrative court decision on an Environmental Protection Division (EPD) permit allowing ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Max Hastings | Independent, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer and The Sunday Telegraph . Most of us, when we were 25, were still tempted to think that life was about what one co... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesla To Build New Cars In California | California, thanks to a new tax break. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Treasurer Bill Lockyer worked out the deal for Tesla Motors Inc. after learning that the Silicon Valley-based company intended to... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | A Coal New World | A Georgia coal plant cannot go forward until it receives an air-pollution permit limiting its carbon-dioxide emissions, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore ruled Monday. The... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | This economic panic is pushing the planet right back down the agenda | Oil-dependent countries are focused on growth at all costs, and the pale green political consensus looks unlikely to hold. Almost everyone seems to agree: governments now face a choice between saving ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | WORKPLACE RAID: Illegal immigrants arrested in Anne Arundel | ANNAPOLIS Federal officials arrested 45 employees on illegal immigration charges Monday at a well-known local painting company that has touted its work on prominent buildings such as the Maryland St... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | VIRGINIA UTILITY: Dominion begins construction of coal-fired power plant | RICHMOND Construction is under way on Dominion Virginia Power s $1.8 billion coal-fired power plant in southwest Virginia. Dominion began construction Monday afternoon on the 585-megawatt power pla... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Latest news - Story: Piute fire doubles again, has burned 2,500 acres | 11:02 AM The Piute Fire in the mountains south of Isabella Lake has more than doubled in size since Sunday morning to more than 2,500 acres. Christie / The Californian The Piute fire heats up Sunday a... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | CLF: State is failing to control pollution from large farms | Host) An environmental group says the state has failed to adequately control pollution from large farms. In a new report, the Conservation Law Foundation says the farms require Clean Water Act dischar... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Firefighters battle 1,500 California fires | Wildfire smoke spreads over California. Thousands of homes Monday remained threatened by wildfires across California, where the governor has declared emergencies in nine counties. More than 19,000 fir... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Internet panel explores sweeping new domain rules The State | The Internet's key oversight agency is considering the first sweeping changes in the network's addressing system since its creation 25 years ago. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Government puts carbon capture on fast track | Four energy groups to bid for demonstration project E. The government has stepped up the pace of change in the battle against global warming by announcing a shortlist of four bidders pre-qualifying ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | OMB Shutting Out EPA on CO2 Regulation | OMB Shutting Out EPA on CO2 Regulation The U. Environmental Protection Agency is close to finalizing its Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on greenhouse gas emission regulation. The ANPRM... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Report: Death Penalty Close To Collapse | SAN FRANCISCO -- California's 30-year-old death penalty, which costs more than $100 million annually to administer, is "close to collapse," according to a new report issued Monday. The California Comm... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | DRILL OR NOT? YOU | DRILL OR NOT? YOU DECIDE.Politico provides two different tacs on our energy problems.Which do you agree with? Vote at the polling link below:Take the Poll:.Harbert is executive vice president and mana... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | China closes Everest for litter clean-up | Mount Everest, where the air is thin and climbing to the summit is a task to which few are equal, is a terrible place to organise a clean-up operation. But now China is planning to restrict access by ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | View from the lab | Prof Steve Jones visits some old friends and finds a mystery behind their movements Up here on the Marlborough Downs, a lot has changed in the past 23 years. I am on a return visit to 200 snail popula... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Ball Corp. plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions | Ball to shutter Ontario plant [Denver]. BoDeans members to headline golf event [Milwaukee]. said Monday it intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 16 percent in the next four years.-based ma... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Ausra opens first manufacturing plant in Nevada | LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Solar thermal power developer Ausra on Monday officially opened its first U.-based manufacturing plant for reflectors and other components of utility-scale solar power plants. ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Georgia court cites carbon in coal-plant ruling | HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Georgia state court on Monday invalidated a permit to build a 1,200-megawatt coal-fired power plant, citing the developers' failure to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenh... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Why Seven Days? | If you want to learn more about renewable energy, green building and other sustainable living topic. ALMANAC FOR AUGUST- SEPTEMBER 2000 August/September 2000 August 1 Lammas ("loaf-mass"), also calle... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Late night beers and cup noodles - The latest casualties in the fight against global warming | During the COP3 event of December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan committed itself to a reduction of greenhouse emissions by 6%. With this goal set the local governments of at least 10 prefectures have recently... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Can French flair beat EU blues? | France takes over the EU's rotating presidency on 1 July, with the Irish No to the Lisbon Treaty overshadowing an ambitious French agenda. One senior official in the European Commission says a blame g... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Georgia court rejects coal-fired plant permit | HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Georgia state court on Monday invalidated a permit to build a 1,200-megawatt coal-fired power plant, citing the developers' failure to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenh... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tempus: Drax ... Senior ... Clapham House | A French bid for British Energy may have made it the best performer among Britain s power generators so far this year but Drax Group is running its nuclear rival a decent second. Shares in the owner o... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Teaching Global Warming Doesn't Have to Spell 'Doom' | Last April, while chaperoning my daughter's field trip, I mentioned to a fellow parent that I was going to visit Ms. Another parent, not involved in our conversation, gasped and lunged toward us. "You... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Environmental activists arrested after Dominion Virginia protest | Thirteen environmental activists were arrested Monday after they chained themselves to the headquarters of Dominion Virginia Power in downtown Richmond, causing a morning traffic jam but no injuries. ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | NorthWestern Energy to File Major Facility Siting Document for Mountain States Transmission Intertie | June 30, 2008 BUTTE, Mont., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NorthWestern Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy (NYSE: NWE) announced today that it has submitted the Mountain States Transmission Inte... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Stern optimistic U.S. will act on climate | Timothy Gardner UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Climate change expert Nicholas Stern said on Monday he's confident the United States will move to regulate greenhouse gases in the first half of next year, ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | IT buyers won't sacrifice performance to help environment | Green is in, right? Maybe, but a large number of IT shops aren't willing to sacrifice performance even if it would help the environment, according to a new survey. Hosting provider Rackspace surveyed ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesla To Build Electric Sedan In Bay Area | 06-30) 04:00 PDT Sacramento -- Tesla Motors, the maker of electric-powered roadsters, will announce today that it has chosen the Bay Area to build a manufacturing plant for its new model, an electric ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | International Conference on Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa | Subscribe to R4D. International Conference on Natural Resource Management, Climate Change and Economic Development in Africa . The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) is organizing an Internat... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesla Motors Nixes N.M. Deal | SANTA FE, N. -- New Mexico officials are disappointed that the company that built the first mass-produced, all-electric car will keep its manufacturing plant in California instead of building its next... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Electric-Car Co. Gets Tax Break, To Stay In State | SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- The company that built the first mass-produced, all-electric car will keep its manufacturing plant in California , thanks to a new tax break. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Trea... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Report: State should abolish death penalty or overhaul the | State issues crowd November ballot. Trusts established in Oakley for Nunn, Wilson families after fatal. Report: State should abolish death penalty or overhaul the. California should either consider s... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Palm Desert energy financing bill passes Assembly | SACRAMENTO - It's now up to the governor to decide if cities should be able to help their homeowners finance energy saving improvements to their homes, thanks Assembly action earlier today. Lawmakers... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Heat pumps installed at housing association build | Installations A housing association in Wiltshire has recently completed a new project of ten new build homes that use air to water heat pump systems heating and domestic hot water requirements. The bu... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Roundtable marking 20th anniversary of first international climate conference releases statement | The first international conference on climate change was held in Toronto in June, 1988. Sponsored by the government of Canada, the conference, Our Changing Atmosphere: Implications for Global Securit... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Suffer the Environment at Your Cost! | This year s World Environment Day came in the wake of some very sobering happenings as the world was confronted with its inconvenient truth about climate change fast depleting glaciers, food short... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The cost of the Olympics | Persistent water shortages are driving creative thinking about the water crisis. Global warming is estimated to gradually force over 135 million people off their land, largely in the developing world... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesla Motors To Stay In California | CARLOS, Calif. -- The company that built the first mass-produced, all-electric car will keep its manufacturing plant in California, thanks to a new tax break. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state Treasurer... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Report: Death Penalty System 'Dysfunctional' | FRANCISCO -- California's 30-year-old death penalty that costs more than $100 million annually to administer is "close to collapse," according to a new report issued Monday. The California Commission ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | White-Out House | The White House is trying to block the U. EPA from releasing a document that shows how the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases, reports The Wall Street Journal . The draft documen... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The power of the state | On Wednesday (June 25th), Florida Gov. Charlie Crist signed a historic piece of energy legislation that advances Florida one step closer to establishing a cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse ga... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Elon Musk: Tesla will build next car in the Bay Area | Tesla Motors to build Bay Area plant [San Jose]. Jaxtr hangs hope on Web's social networking, VoIP power [San Jose]. Intel supports caregivers with new online community . Tesla Motors will build its n... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | FEMA, NEMA Tour Damage | On Monday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency inspected storm damage. The preliminary damage assessment team, along with crews from the Omaha Public W... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Smoke puts unhealthy spin on region's air | 30, 2008 The air in many parts of Southern Oregon is unhealthy to breathe this morning, according to the state Department of Environmental Quality. Smoke from more than 100 fires burning near the Cali... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Experts urge states to invest in CO2 carbon capture and storage | Smioke billows from a factory in Beijing, China. A CO2 conference in The Hague has heard how capturing and storing carbon emissions holds the key to managing climate change amid rising use of pollutin... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Voluntary Water Markets: The Demand Dilemma | Part One Water Trading: The Basics Part Two Environmentalists Sound off on EPA Wetland Regs Part Three US Water Trading: The Infrastructure Part Five Voluntary Water Markets: The Demand Dilemma Uganda... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Ugandan Water Markets: What Businesses Know (and Don't) | Water Trading: The Basics Assessing the Market: Conversations with Private Sector Businesses About Payments for Ecosystem Services A Letter from Uganda . Water markets can help provide a solution t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The ideas and technologies of the future | Space. The electricity for a small city could be generated from the wind being sucked up an artificial tornado. Wasteful energy policies, overuse of resources, water supply shortages, global climate ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesla Motors nixes NM deal after Calif. tax break | SANTA FE, N. New Mexico officials on Monday expressed disappointment that the company that built the first mass-produced, all-electric car will keep its manufacturing plant in California instead of bu... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Memorial Won't Be Ready For 9/11 Anniversary | Suspected Cop Killer's Jail Death Being Probed A 19-year-old man charged with first-degree murder was found dead while in police custody in Prince George's County, Md. Washington Post reporter Aaron D... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Western governors debate the balancing of energy and wildlife needs | U. authorities have identified a soldier in training as a person of interest in the mysterious death of a seven-months pregnant soldier found in a North Carolina motel room. Mugabe courts African lead... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Why the State Budget Never Adds Up | In a democracy, accountability to voters is the real source of fiscal discipline. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he wants more than a balanced budget this year. For a state that has already laced itself i... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Chicken Is Dunked in Chlorine? Believe It | I was giving an eco-parenting talk last week when a pregnant-with-her-second-child mom asked me if it were true that all chicken is bathed in chlorine as part of its slaughterhouse processing. Convent... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Energy Projections vs. Energy Realities | It's a big government report , with charts and graphs. If you've ignored every other technical paper from an agency with a long name, it sure looks like you can cheerfully deep-six the one released la... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Alaska Airlines Implements New Ground Air Units, Retrofits 737s With Winglets | Alaska Airlines Implements New Ground Air Units, Retrofits 737s With Winglets to Conserve Fuel and Reduce Emissions . Alaska Airlines announced today it is now using mobile ground-based air units for ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Bay Area's Tesla Motors To Make Electric Sedan | CARLOS, Calif. Arnold Schwarzenegger and State Treasurer Bill Lockyer toured Tesla Motors in San Carlos Monday to highlight clean technology investment in California . Mostly known for its $100,000 el... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Long Island Climate Solutions Network News Update 6/30/08 | Contrary to even the most recent November IPCC (UN) scientific reports the rate of change in the world is happening much faster than scientists anticipated. The last few weeks the polar north has be... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Automakers split on CO2 emissions | There is a time bomb ticking away quietly in India on an issue that the rest of the world - from the US and Europe to Japan and Korea is getting paranoid about. It relates to carbon dioxide emissio... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | News Coverage of California Commission | The Los Angeles Times reports, " California's death penalty is dysfunctional, panel finds ." California's administration of the death penalty is "dysfunctional" and "close to collapse," plagued by del... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The Department of Environmental Quality issued a yellow alert Monday, saying air quality has deteriorated to the moderate level. And the heat will rem | Jordan Fouts, 9, turned the fountain at Heritage Park in Eagle into his own personal dance floor to beat the heat on Monday afternoon. The Department of Environmental Quality issued a yellow alert Mon... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | INTERVIEW-Stern optimistic U.S. will act on climate | By Timothy Gardner UNITED NATIONS, June 30 (Reuters) - British climate change expert Nicholas Stern said on Monday he's confident the United States will move to regulate greenhouse gases in the first ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | VSR | Versar, Inc. Theodore Prociv, President and CEO, is Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 Award Finalist in Greater Washington, D./Better Built Construction Services Team Awarded Contract ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Bangladesh will NOT completely disappear under water by 2100 | Announcements. BANGLADESH is a flat deltaic country where 80% of the land is less than 12 metres above sea level. Coastal southern Bangladesh is mostly at sea level. Because of the geographical setti... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | How To Travel Green | A green hotel. Consider taking a vacation with a small carbon footprint. Options include traveling by rail to an area where you can get around without a car, staying in an eco-friendly resort that s ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Ga. judge halts construction of coal-fired plant | ATLANTA - The construction of a coal-fired power plant in Georgia was halted Monday when a judge ruled that the plant's builders must first obtain a permit from state regulators that limits the amount... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Actions Speak Louder Than Words as 13 are Arrested in Virginia Coal Fight | Actions spoke louder than words today as Blue Ridge Earth First! (BREF!) and Mountain Justice (MJ) blockaded Dominion s Richmond Headquarters early this morning . The all-woman lock down team anchored... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | S Asia braces for climate change fallout | Imagine the baby born today in Dhaka. The likelihood is that she will see her birthplace sloshing under water by the time she is at the end of her lifespan. Bangladesh itself will then reduce to 20 pe... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | After Zimbabwe vote, human toll yet to be counted | After Zimbabwe vote, human toll yet to be counted . Ex-Chilean intelligence chief gets 2 life sentences. After Zimbabwe vote, human toll yet to be counted . Ex-Chilean intelligence chief gets 2 life s... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tee-Ball on the South Lawn | Afghanistan. It's safe at first for a Cumberland Bobcat as the Red Wings' first baseman returns the ball to the catcher Wednesday, June 27, 2007, during the first game of the 2007 White House Tee Bal... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Bush urges prayer at Hispanic event | WASHINGTON (BP)--President Bush asked participants at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast to pray God "continues to bestow His blessings" on the United States in the final appearance of his preside... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Lesbian Bike Group Leads Gay Pride Parade | SAN FRANCISCO -- A lesbian motorcycle group dressed in bridal veils and wedding gowns lent a matrimonial touch to San Francisco's gay pride parade Sunday as revelers celebrated their newfound freedom ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Emergencies Declared In Plumas, Kern Counties | SACRAMENTO, Calif. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency Monday in Plumas and Kern counties as firefighters continue to battle wildfires. Meanwhile, fog brought hope of relief to crews b... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Report: Calif death penalty system 'dysfunctional' | SAN FRANCISCO - California's 30-year-old death penalty that costs more than $100 million annually to administer is "close to collapse," according to a new report issued Monday. The California Commissi... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Cornyn buys Web ads on energy | AUSTIN Republican Sen. John Cornyn's re-election campaign unveiled a new Internet ad Monday it is placing on Texas newspaper Web sites to differentiate himself from Democrat Rick Noriega on energy p... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Sharm el-Sheikh | Sharm el-Sheikh / Egypt , 06/30 - African Heads of State and government are gathered since this Monday morning in the tourist attraction Sharm el-Sheikh city,. Sharm el-Sheikh , Egypt , June 30 (Reute... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Top 10 Reasons Why Blue Lizard Sunscreen is the Best | Typically, I do not write posts about products; however, since I am a skin cancer educator I am often asked what products (particularly sunscreens) I think offer optimum protection against skin cancer... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | California offers tax break to keep Tesla in state | SAN CARLOS, California (Reuters) - Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc said on Monday it will manufacture the lower-priced follow-up to its Roadster sports car in California after the state offered a ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | White House rejected EPA climate findings: Congress | Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House officials refused to open e-mail from the U. Environmental Protection Agency that said global warming threatens public ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Brian Fick | Tony @ Florida Rentals on Attention Delta Airlines -- Do you really have to rub it in?. Al Gore was on 60 Minutes last night and I was struck with how successful he is in the role of Public Relations.... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Cascades Tissue buying wind power | Cascades Tissue Group in Waterford has offset its carbon dioxide emissions by buying 11 million kilowatt hours of wind power. The commercial tissue manufacturer, a subsidiary of Montreal-based Cascade... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Walhi to hold seminar on environmental crime in Lampung | The Lampung branch of the Indonesian Environment Forum (Walhi) is scheduled to hold a seminar on `Environmental Crime and Publication of Environmental Complaint Post` at Lampung Unviersity, here on Mo... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Vegetarian life-styles can help reduce global warming | Vegetarian life styles can help reduce global warming caused by emissions which are among other things produced by the cattle-breeding industry, a Taiwanese environmentalist said.... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | USDA Acreage, Stocks Report Summary | WASHINGTON (DTN) -- Floods in the heart of the Corn Belt and adverse weather elsewhere presented unique challenges to U. producers this year, but they nevertheless planted more corn than many analysts... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Appalachian Voices | Just one week after the release of the new " Global Awareness " layers containing the Appalachian Mountain Top Removal layer, the campaign's petition grew from 2 registrations to over 12,000. Now that... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | North Pole Region Might Turn into Arctic Pool this Year | National Snow and Ice Data Center scientists at the University of Colorado found that the North Pole is rapidly changing from an icy region to a gigantic pool, due to the rapid effects of global warmi... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Biomass powers boxboard plant | Nestl , Deloitte, Dow set to keynote PACK EXPO s Change, Innovation & Sustainability program Change, Innovation & Sustainability will be the theme for the Conference at PACK EXPO held in Chicago s ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Cutting CO2 Emissions 80% by 2020 to Avoid Dangerous Climate Change | WASHINGTON, DC Mounting concern about climate change was evident in Washington last week: On Monday, NASA scientist Dr. James Hansen warned a Congressional committee that the world is nearing a tipp... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Health experts say exercise indoors during smoky weather | Comments | Currents. Photo by Greg Barnette / Record Searchlight Public health departments throughout the north state have warned residents to stay indoors as much as possible. Poor air quality isn't an excuse ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Wyden on woods | Wyden on woods Another chapter is unfolding in the endless debate about federal forests. Let s hope this is the last chapter for a while and when it s written, something will actually get done. Ron W... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Satire: We Must Preserve The Earth's Dwindling Resources For My Five Children | As we move into the 21st century, it is our responsibility to think of the future of the earth - not for ourselves, but for those who will inherit what my husband and I leave behind when we're gone. I... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Court's ruling delays coal-fired plant | ATLANTA The construction of a coal-fired power plant in southwest Georgia has been effectively halted by a judge who says the plant's builders must first obtain a permit from state regulators that l... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Umpqua Valley haze to linger | The sun rises into a smoke-filled sky over the Winchester Dam and the North Umpqua River this morning. Smoke caused by Northern California fires is expected to hang around until Wednesday, when a Paci... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Nuclear Power Re-energized in Georgia | As Georgia continues to grow and thrive, it needs power generation capable of sustaining that growth. But the options seem to be shrinking among the body politic for varying environmental, economic an... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | G8 Bishops Statement | Acton Institute. In preparation for the G8 summit in Japan in July, the Catholic bishops conferences of the respective G8 nations have collaborated and released a joint statement to their political l... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Road to Yosemite reopens, clearing way for tourism: Mariposa has used marketing to keep business going. (Merced Sun-Star, Calif.) | Road to Yosemite reopens, clearing way for tourism: Mariposa has used marketing to keep business going. 28--MARIPOSA -- A parade of long vehicles, including tour buses and tow trucks, cruised around t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Forest Fires Raging In Sierra Wilderness | Battle To Control Massive Walker Fire . SAN FRANCISCO: Paul Chambers Reports On Wildfires Adding To Particulate Matter In Already Hazy Air . LAKE COUNTY: Ken Pritchett Reports On Cal Fire Forces Getti... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | CSMG Technologies Issues Letter to Shareholders | CSMG Gains Worldwide Exclusive License Of Novel Carbon Dioxide (Co(2)) Adsorbent Via Acquisition Of Carbon Capture Technologies Inc. LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS June 30, 2008 Dear Fellow Shareholders: We w... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Conservation Groups Plan Legal Action to Prevent the Extinction of the Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow | The Center for Biological Diversity, Florida Biodiversity Project, and Natural Resources Defense Council today notified the U. Fish and Wildlife Service that they will challenge the agency s failure t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesco cuts trade ties with Zimbabwe: company | Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco Plc. is to stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe due to international concern about the current political climate there, the company said in a statement Monday. 'The... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Germany to start storing carbon dioxide underground | Workers use a special drill during tests earlier this year for the carbon capture project in Ketzin. The GFZ geoscience institute says Germany is due to inaugurate Europe's first underground carbon di... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | UNEP's Achim Steiner Launches Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment in Washington, DC, at Woodrow Wilson Center | UNEP's Achim Steiner Launches Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment in Washington, DC, at Woodrow Wilson Center . Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaci... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Is 450 ppm politically possible? Part 6 | No, 450 is not politically possible today. But the debate over the Climate Security Act made clear it won't be politically possible anytime soon, for two reasons:.The vast majority of conservatives ha... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Greeting Cardin | Since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1987, Ben Cardin (D-Md.) has been active on issues such as health care and retirement security. But since making the leap to the Senate le... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Exxon leaks again, this time just a memo (not 11 million gallons of oil) | Last week, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-3 decision to decrease the punitive damages ExxonMobil will have to pay for the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. The penalty is now less than what Exxon earns ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Apple goes green on iPhone 3G packaging | Apple is pushing its green initiatives with the iPhone 3G's packaging, using potato-starch based products and avoiding plastics altogether.IT , the Dutch blog Bright is reporting that PaperFoam , a pa... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Will Electric Power Cause The Next Price Shock? | 08:57 AM. The Eastern Company Adopts New Shareholder Rights Jun 23, 2008 11:25 AM. Sandeep Vij Joins Cavium Networks as Vice President of Strategic Markets & Business Development May 02, 2008 08:00 AM... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | $3 trillion | Ask Pablo Janice's Corner About Adaptation Agriculture Ask Pablo Book Review Case Study Climate Change ClimatePULSE Communication Conflicts Corporate Evolution Cradle to Crad... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Emerging Career Opportunities: Carbon Markets | While pundits on this blog and elsewhere question the value of the cap-and-trade system , the efficacy of structures set up to reduce emissions in developing countries , and even the morality of carbo... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Carbon Markets Clear the Air | As the public debate continues on whether greenhouse gases contribute to global warming or whether we are going through a natural cycle, enormous political pressure and investment dollars are streamin... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Carbon -The Largest Commodity Market? | Carbon may become the world's largest commodity market, according to recent investigations. The Financial Times reported late last week reported that the carbon market could "outstrip the conventional... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Man Saves Bear! | A Florida biologist saved the life of an enormous 375 black bear yesterday, preventing it from drowning by pulling it out of the Gulf of Mexico . The bear had wandered into a residential development i... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | 'Dangerous' words to label N-waste | PARIS: How will "DANGER!" be written 5,000 years from now? How will it be written in 50,000 years? Finding an answer to these questions may not seem like a Code Red emergency to most people. But for ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | An Interesting Way to Play Global Warming - Carbon Credits? iPath Global Carbon ETN (GRN) | There has been a literal avalanche of new ETFs and ETNs the past year, and even the past quarter - especially of the commodity kind. Most of which are uninteresting to me, but a few that have piqued m... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | California Gov. Schwarzenegger to make WhiteStar announcement at Tesla today | We received a heads up overnight that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be making an appearance later today at Tesla Motors headquarters in San Carlos, CA. According to the notice from Tesla,... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | In Dangerous Denial | The Guardian According to an Ipsos Mori poll, carried out for the Observer this month, most Britons believe climate change is at least partially down to natural causes, and not solely to human activit... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Bleak Future For the Country's Water | HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Bleak Future For the Country's Water By Steven Lang GRAHAMSTOWN, Jun 30 (IPS) - Earlier this month, a private pilot reported to a Johannesburg radio station that while flying over... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Tesco cuts trade ties with Zimbabwe: company (AFP) | Zimbabwe due to international concern about the current political climate there, the company said in a statement Monday. "The amount of produce Tesco sources from Zimbabwe -- worth around one million... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Calif. FDs Battle more than 1,400 Blazes | Periscope. Wildfire Death Toll May Rise Further With 4 Charred Bodies Found . More than a thousand wildfires including a massive, stubborn blaze in the Big Sur region were burning early Monday in... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | OLYMPIC SAILING THREATENED BY... ALGAE? | As economic giants go, China is the #1 country in the world if you're looking for a double dose of human rights violations and shameless destruction of natural resources with industrial pollution. Tha... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Carly Fiorina Interview | Fiorina currently welcome to show. Good morning great to be with -- really cute kid -- what do you make -- John up". Final it was -- publicly endorse them something I've never done before and politics... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The Prediction Predicament | Andrew Revkin posted an interesting bit of media criticism (or perhaps context) on his Dot Earth blog Friday. The post was a quick response to an article , published earlier that day in The Independen... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | 13 arrested in protest over Wise Co. power plant | RICHMOND - Thirteen people were arrested today for blockading the entrance to Dominion Resources corporate headquarters to protest the company s plan for a new coal-fired power plant in Southwest Vir... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | KTVU California Death Row Special Section | The California Supreme Court Monday upheld the death penalty of Ramon Salcido, a Sonoma County winery worker who killed seven people, including his wife and two of his three daughters, in 1989. More D... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Last comment by Drivedabizness | Revenue-building campaign needed as governor's bond proposal gains footing The California state lottery is switching its advertising pitch on nearly two dozen billboards throughout the state, a modes... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Green tech news harvest: Redesigning suburbs, cooking carbon, and mapping wildfires | Correction June 30 11:30 a. A sampling of green-tech news with quick commentary. High fuel costs threaten suburban lifestyles - The Boston Globe Does America need a redesign? Rising gas prices could d... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Video report by the T-D's Michael Martz | A protester rappels from the Belle Island Bridge as police wait for him on the ground. BY MICHAEL MARTZ Times-Dispatch Staff Writer Thirteen people were arrested today for blockading the entrance to D... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | California plans to label new cars with emissions ratings | Rating vehicles on a scale of 1 to 10, the new labels will take into account the particulate and greenhouse gas emissions and assign a corresponding score, to be displayed on the window. The higher th... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | John McGrath | Ashley Braun David Roberts Grist Holly Richmond Kate Sheppard Katharine Wroth Lisa Hymas Sara Barz Sarah K. Burkhalter Sarah van Schagen Tom Philpott Trina Stout . Adam Browning Adam Stein Alan Durni... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | PW Talks with Paul and Anne Ehrlich | 11:00:00 AM . In Dominant Animal (out today from Island Press), ecologists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, who authored the highly influential The Population Bomb forty years ago, recalibrate their vision and... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Change, for better and worse | 5 So much has been made of the historic nature of the US presidential race. The first-ever African-American candidate to head a ticket. The oldest man in history to run credibly for the job. The long,... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Master of Our Domain | Half the people had turned into squealing pigs, the other half were cooking - Nick Cave There's a Kids in the Hall sketch in which Mark McKinney plays a loner who's injured his toe. By the swelling, t... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Next steps on carbon capture readiness and UK demonstration competition | 17:59 Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (National) Next steps on carbon capture readiness and UK demonstration competition The four bidders that have pre-qualified in the Gove... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Global warming discussion is Tuesday night | State Rep. Pam Richardson will host a discussion about the Global Warming Solutions Act at her Nichols Road district office tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7:30 p. The proposal would require a 20-percent ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Fire emergency status expanded in Calif | Wildfire smoke spreads over California. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in two more counties as wildfires still burned in the northern part of the state. Kern and Plumas counties w... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | CM Law Library Blog | This page looks plain and unstyled because you're using a non-standard compliant browser. To see it in its best form, please upgrade to a browser that supports web standards. The CM Law Library Blog s... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Wells Fargo, Tico in hot water over short sales | Wells Fargo, Tico settle allegations of false FHA claims Federal prosecutors in Arizona said they reached a $4.3 million civil settlement with Wells Fargo Bank and Tico Title Agency of Arizona this mo... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Customers prefer to keep green than geaux green | A pilot program that allowed Entergy customers in the western part of Louisiana to pay extra on their electricity bills to buy power from renewable energy sources has not exactly been a rousing succes... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Taking the Food Crisis Personally | Corn and wheat used to feed chicken, pigs and other farmed animals is food being diverted from the mouths of the global poor. In April, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on food policy called the... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year s Extreme Weather? | It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming.... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The Importance of Immediate Action for Climate Mitigation | The Importance of Immediate Action for Climate Mitigation K. Madhava Sarma and Durwood Zaelke, special to mongabay. Speed matters for successfully managing the transition to a low-carbon future. We n... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | OFF-SHORE DRILLING IS ECONOMICALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY DEVASTATING, SAYS SEN. MENENDEZ IN ENERGY SPEECH ON SENATE FLOOR | OFF-SHORE DRILLING IS ECONOMICALLY AND ECOLOGICALLY DEVASTATING, SAYS SEN. Friday, June 27, 2008 WASHINGTON Yesterday afternoon, U. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Energy and Natural... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Rackspace s Greenspace Initiative Celebrates One Year Anniversary through Customer | Rackspace s Greenspace Initiative Celebrates One Year Anniversary through Customer Offerings, Corporate Conservation and Employee Education . 10:05 AMSAN ANTONIO June 30, 2008 Rackspace Hosting,... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Councils more worried about policing smoking ban than violent crime | News Home. Local councils are more concerned about stopping people smoking than reducing the numbers injured in assaults, new town hall targets showed. Despite a Government poll showing community safe... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | WallStreetGrapevine.com: Stocks on the Rise: NILR, EMIS, SYMW | M2 PressWIRE Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) RDATE:30062008 Wall Street, NYC-Today, wallstreetgrapevine. (NASDAQ: EMIS), and Sympowerco Corporation (Pink Sheets: SYMW) their "Stocks on the Rise. Announces... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Labor Commissioner Urges Business Owners To Hire Inner-City Youth | Commissioner Urges Business Owners To Hire Inner-City Youth Up to $2,400 in Tax Credits Available for Employers Who Hire Youth . at City Hall in Schenectady, NY, Commissioner Smith identified the nume... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | The Power to Fix the Economy Rests With the Next President | The Roaring '90S?. As the presidential campaign kicks into gear, housing, energy and rising unemployment have thrust the economy front and center. Whether they are talking about the need to drill off... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Cell phone rules change tomorrow | Sacramento, Calif. - To Celeste Tyler and her teenage friends, text-messaging is as effortless as tying their shoes. The high school senior can text without looking, sending messages on her red Samsun... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | NBA All-Star LeBron James Gets His Game On With Nickelodeon's The Big Green Help Campaign | Four-time NBA All-Star LeBron James teams up with Nickelodeon's The Big Green Help pro-social campaign this month in a brand-new online mini-game, LeBron James : Worldwide Big Green Bike-a-thon! that ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | London shares close firmer boosted by commodity plays;Wall Street rallies UPDATE | UK blue chips closed stronger today, ending a depressing second quarter on a high note thanks to gains by commodity plays on the back of strong oil and metals prices, and M&A talk, with Wall Street tu... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Eco anger | Plans to develop sites in England into housing as "eco-towns" are drawing protesters to parliament, as a second round of consultation on the issue is launched. But why is the idea controversial? What ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Stored CO2 to fight global warming | A German research center has planned to pump carbon dioxide into an underground storage in an attempt to fight global warming. The site at Ketzin, outside Berlin, is part of a European project dubbed ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Help End the Oil Wars and Save Lives | Help End the Oil Wars and Save Lives Help Our Future Soldier Out of Harms Way While calls for more oil drilling dominate the headlines, experts say taking simple steps to use less could save twice as ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | U.S. Conference of Mayors Opposes Tar Sands | The U. Conference on Mayors continued its leadership on important energy and environmental issues at it Miami meeting last week, by adopting a resolution to avoid carbon-intensive fossil fuels such as... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 | Readers: Drill off the Florida coast if it means gas price relief | The moratorium on offshore drilling should be lifted to allow potential oil supplies off Florida's coast to be tapped. That's what nearly two-thirds of the 946 respondents said in the latest Business ... Read » |
30/Jun 2008 |