Monthly Archives: March 2008
LCA on Renewable Diesel
Thanks to a reader for this tip. Argonne National Laboratory has just published a Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA) of biogasoline, biodiesel, green diesel, and petroleum diesel:
Life-Cycle Assessment of…
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Canada: Imperial oil sands plans dealt blow
Globe and Mail: The federal government has revoked a key water permit for Imperial Oil Ltd.’s [IMO-T] proposed $8-billion Kearl oil sands mine, delaying work on a major new oil sands development as environmental scrutiny of the massive projects around Fort McMurray intensifies. Imperial, which is majority-owned by Exxon Mobil Corp., has been granted [...]
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United States: House advances proposal to impose state’s first CO2 tax
Associated Press: A proposal imposing the state’s first tax on carbon dioxide emissions won first-round approval Monday night in the House, but some members didn’t see it as a sincere effort to combat global warming. The proposal’s sponsors drafted it so that its tax of $37 on each ton of excess CO2 emissions probably [...]
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Gore Announces Global Warming Effort
Associated Press: Former Vice President Al Gore launched a three-year, multimillion-dollar advocacy campaign Monday calling for the U.S. to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The Alliance for Climate Protection’s campaign, dubbed "we," will combine advertising, online organizing and partnerships with grass-roots groups to educate the public about global warming and urge solutions from elected [...]
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Global warming, global health: Campaign will raise awareness
USA Today: From deadly heat waves in the Midwest and Northeast to more intense Gulf Coast hurricanes and Southwest droughts, the effects of climate change will have an unprecedented impact on the health of Americans, a report said Monday. The connection between global warming and public health is the focus of a new campaign [...]
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Global Warming Bringing Early Spring Seasons To Eurasian Forests
Science Daily: With the help of satellite data, researchers from laboratories in France(1), the UK, Japan and Russia have completed the accurate and large-scale mapping of leaf appearance dates in boreal forests. Their work has revealed a remarkable trend towards earlier foliation, which occurred between 1987 and 1990, over a large part of northern Eurasia, [...]
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Chunk of Antarctic ice shelf collapses; global warming blamed
Canadian Press: A chunk of Antarctic ice suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said last Tuesday. Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 414-square-kilometre chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for [...]
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Britain Introduces Biofuel Target Amid Concerns
Voice of America: Britain is stepping up the use of biofuels with new targets in the coming weeks – as the first step toward meeting an EU directive that five percent of all transport fuels come from renewable energy sources by the year 2010. Tendai Maphosa takes a closer look at the pros and cons [...]
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United States: Baby step to protect the coast from drilling
San Francisco Chronicle: California moved a step closer to permanently protecting its shores from offshore oil drilling Monday when the House approved legislation to ban development in federal waters along all 76 miles of Sonoma County’s coastline and off the southern tip of Mendocino County’s coast. The measure would more than double the size [...]
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‘Fossil Fools’ Protests Target Oil Industry
OneWorld US: Green groups are planning to celebrate April Fools Day Tuesday with a variety of actions designed to embarrass oil industry bosses gathering in Washington. "Our political and corporate leaders have been fooling around with our future by refusing to take the bold action needed to avert a climate crisis," said Brianna Cayo-Cotter [...]
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Poor nations fear being left in cold on global warming
Agence France Presse: Outraged poor nations bearing the brunt of global warming have become increasingly bold in UN-led climate talks, but some worry that recent trysts of large countries are leaving them out in the cold. A grouping of 192 countries under the United Nations is leading the way in negotiating a groundbreaking climate [...]
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Land Once Preserved Now Being Farmed
US News and World Report: Since the mid-1980s, the U.S. government, in an attempt to reduce the environmental fallout from large-scale farming, has been paying farmers to set aside less-than-ideal land for conservation. The results have been overwhelmingly positive: Soil erosion has been reduced; chemical and fertilizer runoff has eased; habitats for game birds and [...]
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United Kingdom: Warning over green homes target
Press Association: Turning the UK’s existing housing stock into low carbon homes could be achieved by the end of the next decade if there is significant investment in "green" technology such as solar water heating, a report says. But without a radical shift in Government policy, the housing sector will not achieve its emissions [...]
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United Kingdom: TUC presses for clean coal decision
Guardian: The government comes under renewed pressure today to step up backing for the use of clean coal as part of future electricity generation. The call to speed up decision-making comes from the TUC’s clean coal task group, which includes representatives from unions and companies within the coal and power industries. It said delays [...]
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