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23/4/2013
The Arctic Athabaskan Council today filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, requesting a declaration that Canada is undermining the human rights of Athabaskan peoples by allowing emissions of black carbon to warm the ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
5/4/2013
Smoldering embers beneath pots and skillets around the world spew acrid plumes of greenhouse gases and aerosols, polluting lungs and warming the planet. More than half of the world's population cooks food using these types of rudimentary stoves, ...
3/4/2013
Europe's cap-and-trade system for reducing the release of greenhouse gases is broken, but not everybody wants to fix it. Industry has profited immensely from the plummeting prices of CO2 emissions certificates, and from lax checks on questionable ...
2/4/2013
By most measures of environmental policy and progress, Ontario, Canada ranks well. Over the last half-century, Canada’s most populous province required cities and industries to treat every gallon of wastewater, dramatically reduced the level of ...
1/4/2013
Almost four million people die each year from household
air pollution (HAP) caused by exposure to the combustion of
biomass fuels (wood, charcoal, crop residues, and dung), kerosene, or coal. These individuals are among the tens of millions who ...
20/3/2013
Even when she was a kid, Melissa Cervantes knew something was wrong with the
air in Wilmington, a neighborhood next to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach where she has lived most of her life. The streets here are verdant with mango, guava ...
27/2/2013
The energy game is rigged in favor of fossil fuels because we omit the environmental and health costs of burning coal, oil and natural gas from their prices. Subsidies manipulate the game even further. According to conservative estimates from the ...
19/2/2013
A little bit of oily and viscous organic material doesn`t seem to matter much when it comes to forming the droplets that make up clouds. This is good news for reducing the uncertainty of climate model predictions.
For accurate climate ...
9/2/2013
With President Obama promising more action during his second term to curb climate change, observers and experts are increasingly predicting that the next likely step for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a move to reduce greenhouse ...
28/1/2013
Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy, edited by Arnulf Grubler and David Fisk, is a very well written book describing challenges and opportunities to define, analyze, and implement sustainable energy development for 21st Century ...
23/1/2013
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Moms Clean
Air Force
by Marcia G. Yerman
Trashed is a documentary featuring its executive producer, actor Jeremy Irons. It examines the encroaching problem of global waste.
Director ...
15/1/2013
Black carbon, the soot produced by burning fossil fuels and
biomass, is a more potent atmospheric pollutant than previously thought, according to a four-year international study released on Tuesday.
Emitted by diesel engines, brick kilns ...
8/1/2013
The warming waters of one of central Europe's most popular holiday destinations, Switzerland's Lake Zurich, have created an ideal environment for a population explosion of algae including Planktothrix rubescens, a toxic cyanobacterium. It has the ...
21/12/2012
The U.S. Environment Protection Agency finalized the Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rule today to protect people from exposure to toxic
air pollution from industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers. By encouraging ...
21/12/2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has softened rules to curb
pollution from industrial boilers and large incinerators, revising earlier versions to target only the largest polluters and give them more time to comply.
The agency on ...
20/12/2012
Drax Group Plc (DRX) received 100 million pounds ($163 million) from Britain’s Green Investment Bank to fund its $1 billion plan to convert the nation’s biggest coal- fired power plant to burn wood pellets.
The GIB is providing the ...
14/12/2012
Largely due to destruction caused by recent climate-related extreme weather events in the U.S., there is a new urgency in our nation to adopt additional carbon
pollution reduction measures. In 2011 and 2012, 21 such events each caused $1 billion ...
6/12/2012
WE all know (or should know) by now that the carbon dioxide we produce when we burn fossil fuels and cut down forests is the planet’s single largest contributor to global warming. It persists in the atmosphere for centuries. Reducing these ...
4/12/2012
It is still possible for Barack Obama to secure an honorable climate legacy. He can dramatically reduce U.S. carbon emissions in his second term. And he can do it without help from Congress. He doesn’t even need a crafty new plan - the Natural ...
28/11/2012
As the nations of the world struggle in Doha to agree even modest targets to tackle global warming, the cuts needed in rising greenhouse gas emissions grow ever deeper, more costly and less likely to be achieved.
U.N. talks have ...
27/11/2012
“A new moment for mankind.” That was how Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, described his country’s biofuel boom in March 2007. Back then, Brazil was the poster child of ethanol fuel, its output second only to that of the ...
31/10/2012
Higher energy-efficiency standards, rational prices on carbon and deep investments in urban energy infrastructure could quicken China's transition to a green economy, said Niels B. Christiansen, CEO of Danfoss, a world giant in green technology ...
19/10/2012
Starpower could do for climate change what it did for global hunger with the We are the World campaign. By Tyler Hamilton Energy and Technology ColumnistBack in the mid-1980s dozens of high-profile music artists from the United Kingdom, ...
16/10/2012
In all cases, the association between housing and health is complex, and causal relationships can be hidden in or otherwise influenced by confounding variables and effect modifiers. Climate change mitigation strategies can directly and indirectly ...