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Progress Earth: ACCCE Forges Claim of Vet Groups Support for Coal

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:00 -0500

It is hard to beat the US Chamber's tin ear when it comes to climate change, but I have to hand it to ACCCE - they have managed, once again, to put themselves at the head of the "blundering boob brigade." Today, ACCCE sent out an email implying that Votevets and [...]

Mongabay.com news: Prime Minister of Kenya urged to ban lion-killing pesticide after child dies from ingestion

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:46:00 -0500

On Monday October 26th a three-year-old girl mistakenly ate the pesticide Furadan (also known as carbofuran) in western Kenya. Her father, a teacher at a primary school, said that he had no knowledge of how dangerous the pesticide was, which he had purchased to kill pests in his vegetable garden. [...]

Mongabay.com news: Palm oil developers push into Indonesia's last frontier: Papua

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:40:00 -0500

Oil palm developers in the Indonesian half of New Guinea are signing questionable deals that exploit local communities and put important forest ecosystems at risk, alleges a new report from Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak. [...]

Triple Pundit: Climate Change: The Cost of Inaction continues to rise

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:35:21 -0500

For those who oppose any kind of meaningful action on global climate change, consider the latest findings on the cost of inaction. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the world will have to spend an extra $500 billion to cut carbon emissions for each year it delays implementing serious action [...]

Green Car Congress: Li-ion Startup ActaCell To Receive Up to $1M Through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:26:14 -0500

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF).

The [...]

Dot Earth: Fresh Demands From 'Front-Line States' in Climate Fight

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:56:35 -0500

Poor countries restate their case that rich countries need to help them confront climate risks and stanch emissions propelling warming. [...]

Mongabay.com news: Coral reef troubles indicate broader ecological problems

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:55:00 -0500

Today, many of our planet's natural areas are seriously threatened by human incursion, overexploitation and global warming: Less than a fifth of the world's original forest cover remains in unfragmented tracts, while just one-third of coastal mangroves survive to protect coastlines from storms and erosion. But none of these are [...]

Green Car Congress: Ceres $5M ARPA-E Project to Focus on Increasing Biomass Yields of Energy Grasses by Up to 40%

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:43:54 -0500

Energy crop company Ceres, Inc. plans to expand an advanced trait development project to increase biomass yields of several energy grasses by as much as 40% in coming years, while simultaneously decreasing the use of inputs such as nitrogen fertilizers. The project will be funded in part by a [...]

Environmental Economics: Are your balls biodegradable?*

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:15:59 -0500

As if my wicked slice doesn't cause me enough stress, now I have this to worry about when I golf (from CNN):

Research teams at the Danish Golf Union have discovered it takes between 100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally. A startling fact when it is also [...]

Planet Gore: The Clamor for Calamity -- By: Brendan O'Neill

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:30 -0500

If a climate-change sceptic suggests that the Sun, rather than man, is responsible for climatic variations he is denounced as evil, a heretic, someone whose words are so foul and twisted that they will be “partially but directly responsible for millions of deaths from starvation, famine and disease in [...]

Environmental Economics: Shaping young minds

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:48:23 -0500

Last night, my kids saw the trailer for the apocalyptic movie 2012, a foretelling of the end of time based on interpretation of the Mayan calendar. They freaked out a bit--especially after I told them it is true* and I know that because the predictions are based on the Haab calendar. I even had [...]

Planet Gore: The Lobbyist Ban -- By: Greg Pollowitz

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:45:20 -0500

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is coming to Congress:

UNITED NATIONS, Nov 9 (Reuters) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Washington on Tuesday to lobby U.S. congressional leaders and government officials over next month's climate change summit in Copenhagen, U.N. officials said.

The world body wants to clinch a deal [...]

Climate Feedback: Countdown to Copenhagen

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:44:54 -0500

Keith Kloor

Passing climate legislation through the US Senate may be tricky, but that hasn’t scared off the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from doing its part. As Stephen Power at the WSJ’s Environmental Capitol notes:

“Congress might be a long way from passing legislation to fight climate change, but the [...]

Sierra Club Compass: Tweeting from Today's Climate Hearing

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:41:16 -0500

Well, we'll only be tweeting from one Senate hearing on climate legislation today, since the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee postponed theirs. So follow @SierraClubLive and the hashtags #cejapa and #sfc on Twitter for updates from today's Senate Finance Committee hearing on "Climate Change [...]

Green Car Congress: Citroën to Launch i MiEV-Derived C-ZERO EV in Q4 2010

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:40:33 -0500

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The Citroën C-ZERO. Click to enlarge.

Citroën will launch its electric city car, the C-ZERO, developed in collaboration with Mitsubishi Motors Corporation from the i MiEV, in the fourth quarter of 2010. C-ZERO is Citroën’s second electric vehicle alongside Berlingo First Electric, developed with Venturi. In [...]

Planet Gore: The Cloudy Future for Climate Alarmism -- By: Greg Pollowitz

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:30:53 -0500

Paul Mushine writes in today's New Jersey Star Ledger:

President Obama’s headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. Al Gore’s headed toward profits that could make him the world’s first "carbon billionaire." But where’s global temperature headed?

Nowhere, it seems. The most reliable readings of the Earth’s temperature show that [...]

Planet Gore: Britain Going Nuclear -- By: Greg Pollowitz

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:15:42 -0500

Washington Post:

LONDON -- The British government unveiled plans Monday to launch one of the world's most ambitious expansions of nuclear-power capacity, calling for the construction of 10 plants to help meet surging energy demands in the era of global warming.

After years of resistance to construction of nuclear-power plants, the [...]

Green Car Congress: Renault Launches New Website on Sustainable Mobility

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:05:00 -0500

Following the founding of the Renault ParisTech Sustainable Mobility Institute last September, Renault has developed a website to promote sustainable development and educate the public on its various aspects: www.sustainablemobility.

The site looks at new concepts such as car-sharing, multi-modality, new behaviors, and “soft” mobility. The aim of www.sustainable-mobility.org is to [...]

The Greenpeace weblog: Greenpeace - Making Waves: Vegemite or Marmite - definitely NOT tuna...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:50:00 -0500

On the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, in the heart of the Pacific ocean, we have witnessed one of the titanic struggles of our age, an issue that can divide communities and and often times dare not be spoken.

I am of course talking vegemite or marmite?

If we can resolve the politics of [...]

Planet Gore: The Next Environmental Menace -- By: Greg Pollowitz

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:30:43 -0500

Golf balls.

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aboutMyPlanet.com: Puerto Rico Preserve Canceled

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:30:05 -0500

Across the globe it is important to establish nature preserves to help ensure the survival of endangered species and fragile lands. Each new preserve is seen as a big win by environmentalists, as it is often difficult to navigate the politics involved in the creation. Unfortunately, [...]

Green Car Congress: Kansas Geological Survey Receives $5M Grant to Study CO2 Storage

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500

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The Kansas Geological Survey based at the University of Kansas has received a nearly $5 million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study the feasibility of storing carbon dioxide underground.

Awarded as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the grant is the largest ever received [...]

Planet Gore: Brrrrrrrrr -- By: Greg Pollowitz

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:00:55 -0500

NOAA:

Temperature Highlights - October The average October temperature of 50.8°F was 4.0°F below the 20th Century average and ranked as the 3rd coolest based on preliminary data. For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern [...]

Climate news from Bali bloggers: Small is not always beautifulPractical Action Blogs

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:31:56 -0500

I’ve spent the day training Practical Action Bangladesh’s senior staff in communications planning. Which begs the question why? These people have their noses against the grindstone, spending every day working with people in desperate need. Why do they need training in marketing and communications? Aren’t there enough spin doctors in [...]

Green Car Congress: ISE Standardizing Energy Storage Systems Controls Interface to Allow Easier Use By Other Manufacturers

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:22:00 -0500

ISE’s Ultra-E 500 ultracapacitor system is capable of up to 1,000,000 charge cycles, lasting significantly longer than conventional alternatives. Click to enlarge.

ISE Corporation, which has been developing and incorporating its energy storage systems into its own heavy-duty drive systems since 1999, is now standardizing its [...]

Green Car Congress: Siemens Energy to Supply Advanced Coal Gasification Technology to Taylorville Energy Center; 50% CO2 Capture

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:17:00 -0500

Siemens Energy, Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the [...]

Triple Pundit: Data Center Pulse: Finding Green Solutions for Energy-Guzzling Servers and Cooling Systems

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:04:50 -0500

Think of it as a support group for data center gurus. Better yet, think of it as a support group on steroids for data center gurus. Data Center Pulse (DCP) is a non-profit, open source community where data center end users can share information, voice opinions, define innovative next-generation solutions, and ultimately [...]

The Greenpeace weblog: Greenpeace - Making Waves: You don't want to be down wind - NYT

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:37:00 -0500

This is a follow up to Brian's post, "They said we were crazy",

The New York Times has an editorial today calling on the Senate to pass a strong chemical security bill:

The requirements are reasonable, vital and long overdue. If terrorists were to attack a chemical plant near [...]

Triple Pundit: Opening Up Fort Knox: Looking for Transparency to Foster Data Center Innovation

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:30:34 -0500

By David Zwerin, Sustainability Marketing Consultant While researching the sustainability of data centers, I became frustrated with the lack of corporate transparency around the environmental impacts associated with their data centers. Many companies talk about how efficient their data centers are, but stop short at providing hard facts, data, and relevant [...]

Triple Pundit: What it Takes to Power the Internet: Quantifying Our Online Obsession

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:29:11 -0500

US Infrastructure ran an article last month about how much energy we use to power the Internet. The above is an in interesting representation of what that power consumptions looks like. From updating our Facebook profiles to reading the news to watching last night’s sitcoms, the Internet has subsumed nearly [...]

Green Car Congress: GM’s Sales in China Surpass 1.5 Million Units

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:08:00 -0500

On 10 November, General Motors and its joint ventures in China surpassed 1.5 million units in sales for 2009. For the first 10 months of 2009, GM’s domestic sales in China totaled 1,459,460 units. This was a rise of 59.8% from the first 10 months of 2008 and a [...]

Triple Pundit: The End of Corporate Climate Change Denial?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:54 -0500

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce said this summer it would like to put climate change on a “Scopes trial.” However, the end of climate change denial is over, at least when it comes to the majority of large U.S. corporations. Three-quarters of the executives interviewed for a McGraw Hill study [...]

Planet Gore: Warm Profiteer -- By: Edward John Craig

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:12 -0500

A nugget from Tom Sowell's random thoughts today:

My first column, more than 30 years ago, was titled “The Profits of Doom.” Recent news stories about the millions of dollars that Al Gore has made out of his “global warming” hysteria suggest that some things haven’t changed much in three [...]

Triple Pundit: Change – Using a Carrot Not a Stick

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:12:22 -0500

Can fun make people exercise more? Can fun make people recycle more? Can fun improve safety? Won’t it be fun to find out? Now through December 15 TheFunTheory.com is sponsoring a contest to prove the concept that fun is the best way to change peoples’ behavior for the better. The [...]

Triple Pundit: Net Impact Conference 2009 – Getting the Most Out Attending a Conference

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:11:47 -0500

The 2009 Net Impact conference at Cornell is just around the corner. So many choices – 120+ sessions, keynotes, expo center, cocktail receptions, and networking opportunities. The choices can overwhelming. Two days can seem like a lot of time, but it will fly by and you don’t want to be [...]

It's Getting Hot In Here: A World Without Ice

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:21:34 -0500

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The world including the sea level, climate, and landscape has been shaped by the power of ice for billions of years. And now, as we’ve pushed co2 concentrations well beyond historical ranges (at least the range of the last 800,000 years), ice is becoming harder to find. There’s even the [...]

Green Car Congress: Report: Cadillac Converj EREV Headed for Production

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:08:00 -0500

The Detroit News reported that GM has decided to produce the Cadillac Converj, an extended range electric vehicle derived from the Voltec platform. Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. (Earlier post.) A production date has not been set, according to [...]

Transition Culture: Interview on the Agroinnovations Podcast: Part One

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:55:43 -0500

I did an interview yesterday with the Agroinnovations podcast, which went on for over an hour. It has been divided into two parts; part one has already been posted, and here it is. Part two will be up in a week or so. [...]

The Political Environment: Melodie Wilson's Death

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:24:00 -0500

Melodie Wilson was as classy and professional as they come. [...]

Mongabay.com news: How rainforest shamans treat disease

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:32:00 -0500

Ethnobotanists, people who study the relationship between plants and people, have long documented the extensive use of medicinal plants by indigenous shamans in places around the world, including the Amazon. But few have reported on the actual process by which traditional healers diagnose and treat disease. A new [...]

After Gutenberg: Through the Oil Slick Looking Glass

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:50:27 -0500

Via Peak Energy, we learn from The Guardian that high winds over the weekend supplied 53% of Spain’s electricity – equivalent to the power output of 11 nuclear plants.

Photo: Steve Fareham

Burbo Bank Windpark is an example [...]

Mongabay.com news: 40% of lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo cleared in 15 years

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:31:00 -0500

Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a new high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia. [...]

BLOGASSAULT: Obama: Let's Take The Van

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:28:46 -0500

How about this cool new ride the government is going to pay a cool $1.4 million dollars for... The price of the van doesn't really justify the fuel savings does it? But then again, why sell 35 of them' [...]

Planet Gore: PETA vs. Al Gore -- By: Greg Pollowitz

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:03 -0500

Grab some popcorn and enjoy:

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ClimateScienceWatch: EPA sends endangerment finding on greenhouse gases to White House for final approval

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:15:00 -0500

The US Environmental Protection Agency has sent its scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare to the White House for final review, the next step in moving toward regulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Global warming denialist attempts to derail [...]

BLOGASSAULT: Cheating The System

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:14:15 -0500

The auto makers are getting offered up a pretty sweet deal to build electric cars. They need help meeting the new average fuel economy standard of 35.5 MPG that will come into effect in 2016. The Obama administrat [...]

The Political Environment: What The UWM Chancellor Said About R&D

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:12:00 -0500

I was out of town when UWM Chancellor Carlos Santiago shared some of his thinking about new colleges and research institutes with athe Northwest Side Community Development Corporation, so I am catching up on my reading and posting this link to how Howard Snyder, the NWSCDC's Executive Director, took [...]

Mongabay.com news: Norway to give Guyana up to $250M for rainforest conservation

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:03:00 -0500

Norway will provide up to $250 million to Guyana as part of the South American country's effort to avoid emissions from deforestation. [...]

The Political Environment: Rep. Richards Blasts UW Water Consultant Hiring

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:00 -0500

State Rep. Jon Richards has blasted the UW System's move to bring former DNR spokesman Jeff Smoller on board as a consultant who might help move water research and related development out of Milwaukee, where such efforts are taking shape, finally.

For Richards, a really tough statement.[...]

Green Car Congress: Companies in ElectricTransportation Value Chain to Form Electrification Coalition

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:39:51 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Business leaders representing the entire value chain of an electrified transportation system will hold a press conference on Monday, 16 November to announce the formation of the Electrification Coalition and the release of its Electrification Roadmap, a report outlining a vision for the deployment of electric vehicles and infrastructure on [...]

The Thin Green Line: Did factory farms cause swine flu?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:34:22 -0500

It's almost a truism of political conversation that Big Ag's lobby has a stranglehold over Washington. If you've ever wondered if that's true, you need only consider just how quickly President Obama changed "swine flu" to the obscure, overly scientific, and far more syllable-rich name H1N1, as...

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It's Getting Hot In Here: Ida rips through El Salvador, Headed for US

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:14:07 -0500

from Bill McKibben: Were thinking of our friends in El Salvador today, like these these girls scouts at a 350 rally. because a truly nasty hurricane, Ida, just blew through the tiny country, leaving more than a hundred dead, and many still missing in mudslides triggered by massive rains, in some [...]

Sierra Club Compass: Tweeting from Tuesday's Senate Climate Hearings

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:59:01 -0500

Tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov. 10th) we'll have two of our folks tweeting from the two very important Senate hearings. Justin Guay, the apprentice for our global warming and energy team, will be twittering with the @SierraClubLive from the Senate Finance Committee hearing on climate legislation and jobs. You can [...]

OpenMarket.org » Environment: Buffet Displays Hope in America’s Energy Future

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:58:58 -0500

Warren Buffet, one of the most respected investors in America, recently purchased Burlington Northern, one of the nation’s largest railroads with some 32,000 miles of track. BN like almost all railroads carries coal - lots of it from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming to the nation’s electrical power plants. [...]

After Gutenberg: Consequence 09

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:46:07 -0500

Re-post of John Kerry, Senator from the state of Massachusetts, calling for A New Green Youth Movement.

I know the difference a generation of young Americans in motion can make.

I was in college at a time of great political ferment and fundamental changes to our social fabric: the [...]

eNewsUSA: House Passes Chemical & Water Security Act (H.R. 2868)

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:12:00 -0500

Nov 6: The House of Representatives passed by a vote of 230 to 193 the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (H.R. 2868) [See WIMS 10/23/09]. According to a release from the Energy and Commerce Committee, the bill strengthens security at America's chemical plants and drinking water and wastewater [...]

ClimateScienceWatch: PEER: EPA orders employees to remove YouTube video critical of cap-and-trade climate policy

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:11:00 -0500

The US Environmental Protection Agency has ordered two of its attorneys to remove a video they posted on YouTube about problems with climate change legislation backed by the Obama administration or face “disciplinary action,” according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). “EPA is abusing ethics [...]

sustainablog: Ray Anderson: A Revealing Chat with a Radical Industrialist

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:03:08 -0500

Ray Anderson’s epiphany about his own role in environmental destruction after reading Paul Hawken’s The Ecology of Commerce has taken on mythic status in the fifteen years since. The “spear in the chest moment” he experienced transformed Anderson into a leader in sustainable thought and [...]

Dot Earth: E.P.A. Intervenes on Video by 2 Employees

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:41:38 -0500

Number of comments: 19
The E.P.A. tells two agency lawyers to make clearer that a video they posted criticizing the Obama administration's climate policy solely reflects their own opinions. [...]

Planet Gore: Cash-for-Clunkers = Stimulus for Japan -- By: Henry Payne

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:30:56 -0500

Clunkers greens foreign competitors’ bottom line (HP)

Congress continues to pat itself on the back for its clunkers “stimulus,” hoping that no one notices the details. The latest embarrassment: Having spent $80 billion in taxpayer money to bail out Detroit, federal data confirms that Congress designed [...]

The Thin Green Line: Is individual cap-and-trade the wave of the future?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:19:10 -0500

Britain's Environment Agency has proposed individual carbon accounts. Here's how it works: Each person gets an allotment of carbon emissions. The emissions are tracked using the equivalent of a carbon credit card that Britons would be required to present whenever they made carbon-intensive...

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The Political Environment: Health Care Vote Hero

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:46:00 -0500

Dust off the label "Profile in Courage."

I especially like his ability to hold off the GOP's strong-arm tactics. [...]

Green Car Congress: Antonov Chinese 6-Speed Transmission JV Formally Incorporated

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:01:55 -0500

Number of comments: 1

The formal incorporation of the joint venture in China between Antonov, the UK transmission specialist and Chonqing Landai Industry Co Ltd for the production of the Antonov TX6 automatic transmission has been completed and a certificate of incorporation has been issued by the Chinese authorities. (Earlier post.)

Antonov’s initial [...]

Green Car Congress: Joule Achieves Direct Microbial Conversion of CO2 into Hydrocarbons

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:53:50 -0500

Number of comments: 15

Joule Biotechnologies, Inc. reported a major step forward in its development of renewable fuels, achieving direct microbial conversion of carbon dioxide into hydrocarbons via engineered organisms, powered by solar energy. (Earlier post.) The breakthrough was made possible by the discovery of unique genes coding for enzymatic mechanisms that enable [...]

Green Car Congress: Quantum Ships Q-Force Diesel Hybrids to US Army TARDEC

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:23:04 -0500

Number of comments: 1

Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. is developing and shipping diesel hybrid vehicles to the US Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) National Automotive Center (NAC), with funding support through the US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), and project administration through Alion.

Quantum developed the Clandestine Extended [...]

Green Car Congress: INEOS Bio Begins Advanced Waste-to-Ethanol Plant Feasibility Study

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:15:31 -0500

Number of comments: 1
The INEOS Bio waste-to-ethanol process, originally developed by BRI. Click to enlarge.

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes [...]

James Bruggers: A little BPA with your soup?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:00 -0500

Consumer Reports has found the chemical Bisphenol A in a variety of prepared foods.

Oh, yum!

BPA is one of latest chemicals to get into widespread use, only to have questions raised about after it's gotten into our bodies. The plastics lobby [...]

Planet Gore: Gaia Is Great! Gaia Is Great! -- By: Edward John Craig

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:00:15 -0500

The Economist updates this Chris Horner post:

Environmentalism is given the same weight as religion in British employment laws

“A BELIEF in man-made climate change and the alleged resulting moral imperatives is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief [...]