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Senate committee passes anemic climate bill crippling EPA's regulatory ability
Tucson, Ariz.— Statement from the Center for Biological Diversity: Capping a week in which the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee overwhelmingly passed a weak global warming bill with no Republican support, Center for Biological...
Tags: EPA, Obama, Climate change, global warming, fossil fuels, pollution, Clean Air Act
Advanced battery electric vehicles coming to Arizona in 2010
Arizona is one of a few cities that will get the new all electric advanced battery Nissan LEAF. It can go 100 miles on a charge, has a top speed of 80 mph and cost about the same as a normal sedan. The best part is it costs 4 times less to operate than...
Tags: EV, electric vehicle, payback, ROI, clean air, imported oil, pollution, LEAF
Let Them Eat Plastic
We’ve all seen the Brita commercials outlining the life of a plastic water bottle. “One hour in a gym (or similar situation); forever in a landfill.” But what about, “forever in an oceanic gyre twice the size of Texas.”...
Tags: great pacific garbage patch, trash, garbage, plastic, water bottles, ocean, pollution, green, albatross, conservation
Should 'Global Warming' Activists Use A Different Approach???
Watching "Global Warming" activists take their case to the world really makes me wonder if they're using the wrong approach... No one is saying the world isn't warming up, but the argument is that world temperatures have cycled up...
Tags: Global Warming, Pollution
Burning the field in Cairo Egypt...
The past week like every year around this time the farmers are burning their fields .. with it's ever growing population, the city of Cairo has become one of the most absolutely gigantic cities in the world, not to mention its busy streets of aging cars,...
DEADLY Carbon Monoxide is GOOD for your health
Low-level doses of the deadly chemical carbon monoxide may actually have medical benefits, pioneering new research suggests. The research is preliminary, and no scientist denies the lethal results of CO poisoning. But studies in animals have found...
Tags: Carbon Monoxide, Poison, Health, Pollution, Weather, Lethal
Why China Will Never Be a Superpower
Last month, the World Economic Forum was held in Dalian, China. The focus was on how to continue to develop the rapid economic growth that has occurred throughout Asia. However, the ineptitude of the Chinese is widespread throughout the world...
Tags: China, superpower, USA, economy, human rights, pollution, one child only, production, Sun Tzu
Obama's Ocean Task Force Hears About Pollution From an Ocean Health Expert
Last Thursday, Timberland Earthkeeper Hero Christopher Swain spoke to the panel on the National Ocean Task Force at the public hearing in Rhode Island. The task force is calling for a National Ocean Council. Christopher was able to help support the push...
Tags: Atlantic, Changents, Climate, Earthkeeper, Health, Healthy, Hero, Life, Ocean, Oceans, Policy, Pollution, Sea, Timberland, education
Heavier Rainstorms Ahead Due To Global Climate Change, Study Predicts
Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns. But the increase in extreme downpours is not uniformly spread around the...
Tags: Rainstorms, Floods, Climate, Weather, Global, Climate Change, Global Warming, Pollution, Storm, Hurricane
'Green' Roofs Could Help Put Lid On Global Warming
"Green" roofs, those increasingly popular urban rooftops covered with plants, could help fight global warming, scientists in Michigan are reporting. The scientists found that replacing traditional roofing materials in an urban area the size of Detroit,...
Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Weather, Weather Change, Climate, carbon dioxide, SUV, Trucks
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