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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on the annual Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2008 draft report. This report will be open for public comment for 30 days after the Federal Register notice is published. Continue reading EPA Seeks Public Comment on the 15th Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory When you drink a glass of organic milk, how do you think it was made? You may picture cows grazing in pasture. You may think the cows never had antibiotics. You may expect a guarantee that they haven't eaten genetically modified feed. These are some of the perceptions that prompt shoppers to buy organic products, but the truth is more complicated. via Farmers wrangle over organic dairy standards – Food and Recipes – fresnobee.com. The bitterly contested fight in Washington over global warming and pollution is also taking hold at the state level. The Environmental Protection Agency, which is threatening to regulate carbon emissions if Congress won’t, is facing legal heat from states that say new regulations will kill jobs at the worst possible time. Texas, Alabama and Virginia, all led by Republican governors, have filed petitions since December, when the EPA ruled that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide endanger human health, clearing the path for the agency to issue mandatory regulations to reduce them. via Three States Sue EPA Over Global Warming Ruling | FOXNews.com. Groups like Conservation International are among the most trusted “brands” in America, pledged to protect and defend nature. Yet as we confront the biggest ecological crisis in human history, many of the green organizations meant to be leading the fight are busy shoveling up hard cash from the world’s worst polluters–and burying science-based environmentalism in return. Sometimes the corruption is subtle; sometimes it is blatant. In the middle of a swirl of bogus climate scandals trumped up by deniers, here is the real Climategate, waiting to be exposed. via The Wrong Kind of Green | The Nation. WASHINGTON — Delaware has made strides in improving its air quality, but a “national solution” is necessary to curb emissions from out-of-state power plants, the state’s top environmental official told lawmakers Thursday. The lawmakers decided to address other pollutants while climate change legislation is being debated. U.S. Sens. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who are negotiating climate change legislation with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., are among the Carper bill’s 13 co-sponsors. Sen. Ted Kaufman, D-Del., also is a co-sponsor. via Feds targeting three pollutants | delawareonline.com. The Rotary effort called Children’s Safe Water Alliance, has provided 20,000 bio-sand filters in the Dominican Republic, reaching an estimated 100,000 people, said Hildreth. Other areas have benefited, as well, including Africa, India, and Central and Latin America. “Through bio-sand filters, we have the power to change the health of a nation,” said longtime Guilford Rotarian Bob Shepard who was on a two-month stay in the Dominican Republic teamed with Wisconsin Rotarian Bob Hildreth. via Rotarians support clean water project | Guilford Zip06 . March 4 (Bloomberg) — U.S. power companies may be willing to go first with new rules to curb greenhouse-gas pollution as long as they don’t have to go alone, NRG Energy Inc. Chief Executive Officer David Crane said. via Utilities May Go First With Carbon Rules, NRG’s Crane Says – BusinessWeek. March 4 (Bloomberg) — Two of the largest U.S. power utilities are backing a compromise on U.S. climate change legislation after a broader emissions-trading proposal foundered last year. Michael Morris, chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., and Lewis Hay, CEO of FPL Group Inc., said today at a conference in Santa Barbara, California, that they support the new effort and await details on the proposal. via Two Power Utilities Support Compromise on Climate Legislation – BusinessWeek. March 3 (Bloomberg) — The disclosure of research “missteps” hasn’t shaken the consensus that manmade emissions from burning fossil fuels are contributing to climate change, President Barack Obama’s top science adviser said. The release of scientists’ e-mails and errors in a report by a United Nations climate panel show researchers are human, John Holdren said today at an energy conference in Washington’s Maryland suburbs. The errors don’t alter the fact that carbon dioxide emissions are warming the earth, he said. via ‘Missteps’ Don’t Negate Climate Science, Obama Adviser Says – BusinessWeek. For a related story, see R.K. Pachauri’s comments to a local gathering in Branford Feb. 27, 2010, as reported in CT Environmental Headlines. This Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, you have a chance to add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of people who will be urging their senators to pass the bill as part of a 72-hour call-in campaign — a national grassroots effort by more than 30 groups. The campaign is organized by environmental organizations, labor unions, veterans groups, faith and business leaders who want to build momentum for climate action, and now is a critical moment, since right now Congress is setting its agenda for the rest of 2010. We need clean energy and climate legislation to be on the table. Call in to 1-877-973-7693. Tell them who you are. And say you support passing clean energy and climate legislation now. via Robert Redford: A 72-Hour Campaign for Climate Action | Huffington Post. March 3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama’s top environmental regulator will testify before Congress today amid growing opposition to her agency’s proposed limits on the pollution linked to climate change. Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, will face lawmakers a day after Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia called for a two-year delay on greenhouse-gas regulations and top House Republicans demanded they be stopped altogether. via EPA Chief to Testify on Hill as Dissent Over Carbon Rules Grows – BusinessWeek.
This first-of-its-kind collection of 50 reports – one per state – helps community leaders see that where we live, learn, work, and play influences how healthy we are and how long we live. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is collaborating with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute to develop these Rankings for each state’s counties. This model has been used to rank the health of counties in Wisconsin for the past six years. via New Haven among least healthy counties in the state | countyhealthrankings. NASA just released a report showing that the key culprit causing global warming today is on-road transportation. While coal plants and agriculture are big emitters too, some of their heating emissions are offset by cooling emissions such as sulfates. This research shows that alternatives to carbon dioxide-emitting automobiles need to be a priority for us to lower greenhouse gas emissions enough to stabilize our climate. In other words, the establishment of low-carbon transportation corridors like greenways are crucial to effectively mitigate climate change. via NASA Report Shows Greenways Needed to Lower Emissions | East Coast Greenway. A group of senators is “moving very rapidly” to craft climate-change legislation this year, Senator John Kerry said. The Massachusetts Democrat said he met to discuss legislation with Senators Joseph Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, as well as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Carol Browner, Obama’s adviser on energy and environmental policy. via Senators Moving ‘Rapidly’ to Roll Out Climate Bill, Kerry Says – BusinessWeek. Like a decayed flotilla of rickety steamers, at least 27 of America’s 104 aging atomic reactors are known to be leaking radioactive tritium, which is linked to cancer. The fallout has been fiercest at Vermont Yankee, where a flood of cover-ups has infuriated and terrified near neighbors who say the reactor was never meant to operate more than 30 years, and must now shut. Read more: A Quarter of U.S. Nuclear Plants Are Leaking a Radioactive Material Linked to Cancer | | AlterNet. And, from the Brattleboro Reformer: What are the real dangers of tritium? BRATTLEBORO — Since Entergy learned that a leak of tritiated water has been contaminating groundwater beneath the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon, many people have been wondering just how dangerous tritium is. Well, that all depends on who you talk to. *** National Award for Smart Growth Achievement: Applications due April 5, 2010  The Environmental Protection Agency is now accepting applications for the 2010 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement. This competition is open to public- and private-sector entities that have successfully used smart growth principles to improve communities environmentally, socially, and economically. Up to five awards will be given in the following categories:
Barack Obama’s new dream of a nuclear renaissance faces a major reality check tomorrow when the state of Vermont is expected to shut down an ageing nuclear reactor with a history of leaks. It would be the first time a state has moved to shut down such a reactor, and follows Obama’s announcement last week of $8.3 billion (£5.4 billion) in loan guarantees for the construction of two new reactors in Georgia. White House officials said the money would help spur a burst of new construction – the first since the Three Mile Island meltdown. Small wonder that support for radical remedial action, sacrificing wealth and freedom to combat warming, is melting faster than the Himalayan glaciers that a U.N. report asserted, without serious scientific support, could disappear by 2035. via Those worried by climate change ignore evidence – The New Haven Register. An assessment by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimated that Texas' generation potential is at 6,527,850 gigawatt-hours per year, up from the previously estimated 1,190,000 GWh. Feb. 21 (Bloomberg) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called on his government to begin developing wind and nuclear energy generation projects amid a drought threatening to halt hydroelectric plants. The nation now depends on hydroelectric power for more than two-thirds of its energy needs. via Chavez Calls for Wind, Nuclear Energy to Boost Electric Grid – BusinessWeek. PORTSMOUTH — Karin Jakubowski, manager of science and outreach programs for Portsmouth-based Clean Air-Cool Planet (CA-CP), gave a presentation at the recent climate literacy conference of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science in San Diego, Calif. Jakubowski, who lives in Connecticut, is coordinator of CA-CP’s Northeast Science Center Collaborative, which provides more than 100 science centers in eight states with tools to teach the public about climate science and global warming. via Local educator invited presenter at national climate conference | SeacoastOnline.com. |
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