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Clean Air Act Needs to Clean Up its Act
According to a recent report on NPR, over 420 coal-fired power plants in America lack pollution control equipment to handle hazardous emission, due in part to a legal loophole. According to the Clean Air Act (CAA) as amended in 1990, power plants constructed prior to 1970 (inception of the CAA) are not required to meet [...]
Posted by Moderator on August 22nd, 2006 filed in Activism, Air Pollution, Bush, Carbon, EPA, Economics, Energy, Environmental Defense, Global Warming, NRDC, Sustainability
What do G8, Nuclear Power and Kyoto protocol have in common?
Nothing. The G8 is clear on one thing though, they all agree to disagree on every environmental issue in question. For example, on “Diversifying Energy Mixâ€, all except Germany were ‘for’ more nuclear power. Funny how the word “proliferation†falls on deaf ear when the countries involved are the world richest. The Kyoto protocol was [...]
Posted by Moderator on July 17th, 2006 filed in Activism, Air Pollution, Bush, Carbon, Economics, Energy, G8, Global Warming, Hybrid, Kyoto, Money, News, Nuclear, Sustainability, Urban, politics, weather
Global Warming Op-ed on L.A. Times
Here’s an interesting psycho analysis of humans and our reaction (or lack of) to Global Warming. The author is Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University. The interesting part is the title, “If only gay sex caused global warming.†(with due apologies to our gay readers…)  Get the L.A. Times Op-ed here. [...]
Posted by Moderator on July 2nd, 2006 filed in Activism, Bush, EPA, Global Warming, Hybrid, News, OSHA, Ozone, greenhouse, politics
CA Smog Rules May Be Used Nationwide
Don’t let the headline fool you, the rule applies only for small-engine machines like lawn mover! Not to say that it would not help, but EPA’s spin on it (as quoted by Margo Oge, director of EPA’s office of transportation and air quality) is “We believe harmonizing with California will be cost-effective, good for the environment, [...]
Posted by Moderator on June 30th, 2006 filed in Activism, Air Pollution, Bush, Carbon, EPA, Economics, News, Urban, politics, weather
Scientists OK Gore’s Movie
I can understand people fussing about the â€Da Vinci Codeâ€, that’s what religious zealots do. But “An Inconvenient Truthâ€? In an unprecedented move, the nation’s top climate scientists gave 5 stars for Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, making it an historic first for scientific topping Ebert and Roeper who gave the movie a B-. [...]
Posted by Moderator on June 28th, 2006 filed in Activism, Al Gore, Bush, Carbon, Conserve, Environment, Global Cooling, Global Warming, Movie, News, Urban, greenhouse, politics, weather