Monthly Archives: July 2009
“Cash For Clunkers” Gets $2 Billion To Keep Rolling
House gets last-minute cash infusion to trade-in program
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Eco-Islam
Living on Earth: YOUNG: It’s Living on Earth, I’m Jeff Young. Green is of course the color of the conservation movement – it’s also the color of Islam. Islamic scholars gathered in Istanbul recently to blend those two shades of green with a seven-year action plan on global warming. AKEF – We believe [...]
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Methods for monitoring CO2 emissions have limitations, inadequate for international climate treaty
Physorg: Current methods for estimating greenhouse gas emissions have limitations that make it difficult to monitor CO2 emissions and verify an international climate treaty, says a new National Research Council letter report to the administrator of NASA, Charles F. Bolden Jr. NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory — which failed to launch in February — would [...]
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Carbon Capture Needs Decade of Subsidy, Harvard Researcher Says
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Bloomberg: Technology to remove and bury carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants will require at least a decade of government subsidies before becoming economically viable, a Harvard University researcher said. Start-up costs for carbon-capture and storage, known as CCS, are high enough to "need some kind of subsidies" for 10 [...]
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“Nuclear Steals Billions from Other Technologies”
Inter Press Service: Why is nuclear energy back on the table? One reason is a powerful U.S. lobby where 14 energy companies spent 48 million dollars in 2007 alone to convince American politicians to give the industry huge loan guarantees because they cannot get financing anywhere else, says Ellen Vancko, a nuclear energy analyst [...]
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Germany: Nuclear Power Fails, And Nobody Notices
Inter Press Service: Seven German nuclear plants have failed to generate any electricity this month due to technical breakdowns. They have about half the production capacity of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors, but Germany did not suffer any power shortages. The plants have between them a 9,000 megawatt (MW) capacity, but Germany generates more electricity [...]
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Morocco: Farmers Overcome Water Scarcity
Inter Press Service: Researchers in the central Moroccan region Beni Mellal are introducing new agricultural techniques that increase production while reducing water usage. Climate change seems to have driven the new measures. Before 1990, drought struck once every five years, now it comes once every two years. Researchers are working on a dual [...]
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Clouds shadow warming predictions
Living on Earth: Ralph Waldo Emerson once compared nature to "a mutable cloud, always and never the same." Climate scientists trying to understand how nature is changing with global warming find clouds a crucial and frustrating part of the picture. Could clouds get thicker and perhaps offset warming? Or shrink and add to the [...]
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Critics blast ‘cash for clunkers’ $2 billion lifeline
Various: Even as House lawmakers are celebrating their remarkably swift move to infuse the popular cash for clunkers program with additional funds, some lawmakers and environmentalists are warning that extending the program is premature without knowing what it even does. Of the $1 billion committed under the initiative — which offers drivers up to [...]
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House approves fresh ‘cash for clunkers’ money
National Public Radio: MADELEINE BRAND, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I’m Madeleine Brand. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I’m Robert Siegel. First this hour, the rush to save the Cash-for-Clunkers program. That’s the government initiative that offers rebates to people who trade in old cars for new more fuel-efficient [...]
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Advocacy groups plead for more adaptation, tech funding in Senate climate bill
New York Times: More than 20 environmental and advocacy groups urged key senators yesterday to dedicate billions of dollars in additional money to international adaptation and low-carbon technology efforts compared with last month’s House-passed climate legislation. Oxfam America, 1Sky, the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth and Nature Conservancy are among the groups pressing [...]
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Oregon State study says having fewer children is best way to reduce your carbon footprint
The Oregonian: Some people who are serious about wanting to reduce their "carbon footprint" on the Earth have one choice available to them that may yield a large long-term benefit – have one less child. A recent study by statisticians at Oregon State University concluded that in the United States, the carbon legacy and [...]
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United States: Kulongoski signals intent to veto rollback of wind energy tax breaks
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Oregonian: Wind farms would continue to receive generous subsidies if Gov. Ted Kulongoski follows through with his threat to veto a bill that limited the tax breaks. Oregon lawmakers hoped to save millions of taxpayer dollars by trimming state subsidies for wind energy farms, but Gov. Ted Kulongoski said Friday he [...]
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