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Pollution from North America Causes Europe To Lose 1.2 Million Tons of Wheat Per Year
Inhabitat &bull Feb 1, 2012
Think air pollution in the US is just a local problem? Think again - a new study published in the journal Biogeosciences finds that man-made ozone pollution in North America can cause European farmers to lose 1.2 million tons of… Full Story »
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Richard Branson and Al Gore Off to Antarctica
ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip &bull Jan 30, 2012
Categories: Causes, EnvironmentTags: al gore, richard branson. The former Vice President is returning to the frozen region as part of a trip organized by his Climate Reality Project. Joined by climate experts and a certain billionaire named Richard Branson, Gore… Full Story »
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Economics alone should drive countries away from crude oil
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 29, 2012
In the latest issue of Nature, two scientists take peak oil head-on, analyzing crude oil production over the past several decades and conjecturing where it is headed. And the top line? Worldwide oil production is in decline, and commonly cited replacements - new oil sources, coal, natural gas, and tar sands - won't be able to make up the… Full Story »
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Ba-bye to six more U.S. coal plants
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 27, 2012
The Environmental Protection Agency's new stricter mercury and air toxics rules are making it too expensive for owners of aging coal-fired power plants. This week, FirstEnergy joined a handful of U.S. utilities to decide to close six of its coal-fired… Full Story »
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President Obama's Stance On Mercury Emission Reduction Protects Cities & Song Birds
TreeHugger &bull Jan 26, 2012Birds and communities surrounding coal burning plants will benefit most from mercury emission controls. Full Story »
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North Carolina Find Excess Toxic Metals In Water Near Coal Plants
TreeHugger &bull Jan 26, 2012While the EPA continues to put off its decision on coal ash regulation-and Congress considers blocking the EPA from regulating it at all-the story of coal ashcontaminationcontinues around the country. In North Carolina, after stepping up their monitoring efforts at… Full Story »
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Energy New Recap: Tunisia Plans 2 GW Solar Power Plant in Sahara, ConocoPhillips' Massive Profits, More
TreeHugger &bull Jan 26, 2012Some really great solar news leads today: Tunisia shifts into high gear the massive Desertec project; and the increasing amount of solar power-generated electricity in Japan. Then there's another example of massive oil industry profits, the shifting world of coal… Full Story »
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Obama's Mercury Ruling Saves 300,000 Babies a Year From Learning Disabilities, Says EPA
TreeHugger &bull Jan 26, 2012With those words in his State of the Union address, President Obama took a firm stand against the coal industry's arguments that controlling mercury is too expensive. A flurry of lobbying ensued after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) passed a long-overdue "Maximum Achievable Control Technology" rule for mercury emissions. But industry cannot succeed at stalling the requirements in the… Full Story »
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'Peak Timber' Is The New Normal State of Human Resource Usage
TreeHugger &bull Jan 24, 2012Avid or even semi-avid TreeHugger readers no doubt have heard about peak oil; and many will be able to recollect reading about peak coal, peak natural gas. A few will even be able to nod along to the notion of peak fertilizer. But peak timber? A new article in BBC News… Full Story »
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Photo captures Westinghouse's nuclear knowledge flying around China
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 23, 2012
Flies through the air with the greatest of ease: China installed this reactor pressure vessel in less than 3 hours at a Westinghouse plant in Haiyang last week. Photo from China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp., via the World Nuclear Association. That's not the world's best photo above. But it's highly symbolic. It shows a reactor pressure vessel swinging into place last week at the Haiyang nuclear power plant under construction in… Full Story »
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The Downs and Ups of Gas Prices
The Daily Green: News &bull Jan 22, 2012
The boom in domestic gas production will drive down gas prices and cut carbon dioxide emissions. Until it drives both prices and CO2 emissions up. Confused? Don't be. Markets can do funny things like that. Here's the scoop: It wasn't… Full Story »
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Governments Spend $1.4 Billion Per Day to Destabilize Climate
TreeHugger &bull Jan 20, 2012We distort reality when we omit the health and environmental costs associated with burning fossil fuels from their prices. When governments actually subsidize their use, they take the distortion even further. Worldwide, direct fossil fuel subsidies added up to roughly $500 billion… Full Story »
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In Government Support of Renewables, Predictability is as Important as Subsidies
TreeHugger &bull Jan 19, 2012Yesterday I posted a rant on why the market's negative reaction to the Arab Spring suggested our economy is in serious need of reform. VBoring left a comment arguing that the market was not reacting against democracy, but rather uncertainty.… Full Story »
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Wisconsin Town Legally Prevented From Tightening Coal Ash Regulations
TreeHugger &bull Jan 17, 2012The EPA is still deciding how to regulate coal ash, and a bill in Congress would prevent the EPA from regulating it at all. Last year, the Wisconsin town of Wilson instituted tighter environmental regulations on a landfill that stored… Full Story »
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The great urban shift: More Chinese now live in cities than countryside
SmartPlanet News &bull Jan 17, 2012
National Bureau of Statistics of China said today that of the 1.3 billion people living in China, 51 percent - or 690 million - are now living in cities. The number does not include residents living in Taiwan, Hong Kong,… Full Story »
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Have Fossil Fuels Become the Enemy of Creativity?
TreeHugger &bull Jan 17, 2012To understand the absurdity of this exchange, you have to understand where my wife and I live. We're about 10 minutes out in the country from the nearest town (yeah, not very green...). While we have one (excellent) restaurant just… Full Story »
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Green book roundup: Sustainability and innovation in business and the economy
Plenty Magazine - Environmental News and Commentary &bull Jan 16, 2012
From transparency with customers to envisioning a prosperous, peaceful future free of oil, coal and nuclear energy, these five books are taking care of business. How would your business work without oil, on just a few weeks' or days' notice? What four global forces will change our world and our economies over the next 40 years? How can you use sustainability to drive innovation in your company and industry? How can you avoid accusations of greenwashing and inspire loyalty in your eco-conscious customers? The authors of the following five books strive to answer these and… Full Story »
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Energy News Recap: China May Soon Burn Half of All World's Coal, SuperFracking, Vestas Closing Wind Turbine Plants, More
TreeHugger &bull Jan 13, 2012Lots of energy news today; unfortunately, apart from the notion that peak oil is actually an opportunity for massive positive societal and environmental change which we'll get to in a few words, it's mostly not really good news. Peak Oil Can Fuel Positive ChangeWe've… Full Story »
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Scoring One for Clean Energy on College Campuses
TreeHugger &bull Jan 13, 2012Last night's Indiana University basketball game was exciting even though the Hoosiers lost by just a couple. If you watch college hoops, you know that IU is having one of its best seasons since I was a student there in the early 90s. I'm in… Full Story »
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Fossil Fuels Bonanza, Catastrophic Global Warming
TreeHugger &bull Jan 12, 2012It's that time of year: 'State of the X' addresses are pouring forth from government leaders, business chiefs, and anyone else who presides over some sort of body worth remarking upon. Today was the Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue's… Full Story »
