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Whole Watta Love
Small automakers roll out electric cars The climate is right for electric cars, and several automakers are rolling out new models. It’s “an untapped market that is phenomenal,” says the CEO of Zap, which introduced the three-wheel electric Xebra last month (yes, it comes zebra-striped). While low-speed, relatively low-price vehicles like Miles Automotive’s ZX40 and […]
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Take Care, TCE
Top scientists call on EPA to crack down on drinking-water pollutant The solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) — the most common industrial pollutant in U.S. drinking water — poses a high risk of kidney cancer and other diseases, the National Research Council reported yesterday. The council said the U.S. EPA should get moving on a new risk […]
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That Darn Pat
Coal-fired cooperative coughs up cash to climate crank Say you don’t like the results of climate science. What to do? Us, we suffer from night terrors. But the Colorado-based Intermountain Rural Electric Association — a group heavily invested in coal-burning utilities — is going with the fossil-fuel industry’s favorite alternate strategy: buy more favorable science! […]
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And You Were Thinking It Couldn’t Get Worse
Oil spill and power-plant fire wreak havoc in already-havoc-stricken Lebanon Bombed by Israel two weeks ago, a storage fuel tank of a power plant in Beirut, Lebanon, is still burning, filling the air with dangerous fumes; another exploded, sending at least 10,000 tons of oil into the Mediterranean Sea. Particulate pollution could waft as far […]
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Perfect for all your global warming needs
Nukes can't take the heat?
LONDON (Reuters) - A heatwave in Europe has exposed the limits of nuclear technology, France's favorite source of electricity which is touted by many as a solution to combating global warming.
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Time to call in “the governing body”
I like this idea of a wildlife governing body. It would have to have teeth of course; laws without a means of enforcing them are meaningless. Governments could no longer claim they don't have the funds to stop illegal logging or land use if they could just call in the "governing body." Think of it as the conservation branch of the U.N., dedicated to preventing biodiversity loss instead of preventing wars. -
GM fights back via … Google?
Tucked away in this little USA Today story on the resurgence of electric cars is this interesting tidbit, about GM's reaction to Who Killed the Electric Car?:
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Small Colorado coal burner pays big bucks to climate change denier
According to ABC News, a small rural electric cooperative in Colorado paid a notorious climate change denier $100,000 without first informing or asking its members.
"It's outrageous," Ron Binz, a public utility consultant formerly with the state of Colorado, told ABC. "It's an abuse of authority. The customers are member-owners. [General Manager] Stan Lewandowski is basically spending other people's money."
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Inhofe chides EPA investigators for investigating
Smog is bad in Denver in these dog days of summer -- not an unusual situation for the city.
Recently, EPA investigators took a tour of oil and gas facilities northeast of Denver armed with infrared cameras, which can record smog-forming emissions that are invisible to the naked eye.
Aiming the camera at pipelines, valves and hatches atop storage tanks, the EPA regulators found numerous sources of "fugitive emissions" -- those leaking from various areas of the facility -- during a two-hour drive-by of the region last week.
Nice job, EPA investigators! I mean, right? Seeking out sources of pollution? Enforcing laws? Yippee?
Turns out not everyone approves:
