Monthly Archives: September 2009

Penske Scraps Plan to Buy Saturn; Brand Likely to Die

By | Published: September 30, 2009
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; End of the line for GM’s would-be import killer. Original post by miscellaneous
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Kenya: Thirsty Eucalyptus Trees Get the Chop

By | Published: September 30, 2009
ScieDev.Net: Farmers in central Kenya are cutting down water-hungry eucalyptus tree species growing near water sources as a government directive aiming to save water takes effect. Environment minister, John Michuki, issued the directive three months ago in an attempt to lessen the impact of the drought that is ravaging the country. Eucalyptus has [...]
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Nike reported to be quitting Chamber of Commerce post over climate controversy

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Business Green: The US Chamber of Commerce’s controversial calls to put the latest climate science "on trial" as part of its campaign to block proposed carbon legislation could yet prompt another high-profile walk out, after reports emerged that Nike was to quit it’s post on the trade group’s board. According to reports on the [...]
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Engineering giants follow the money to green power

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Reuters: A green power building spree is on the way, and much of it will be brought to you by the same people who built the nuclear and coal-fired power plants that keep the lights on now. What might strike casual observers or radical greens as odd can be explained by good business sense; [...]
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Senate climate bill tougher than House version

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Houston Chronicle: Senate Democrats are pushing for a 20 percent cut in greenhouse gases by 2020 — deeper than what the House has passed and what President Barack Obama wants — according to a long-awaited bill that will test how serious the U.S. is about slowing global warming. The Democratic bill is to be [...]
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United States: Port city pushes back against Washington’s tightening flood insurance definitions

By | Published: September 30, 2009
New York Times: The ocean is slowly rising to meet this city’s wooden lobster wharfs. As area seas lick up the old log pilings, warming waters invite hurricanes and new predatory fish into the nation’s northern gulf. But these are relatively distant threats when compared with a storm brewing in Washington, D.C., where federal [...]
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Home appliances are starting to wise up

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Greenwire: Whirlpool Corp. plans to produce 1 million "smart" clothes dryers by the end of 2011, a step toward the company’s goal of making all of its appliances smart grid-compatible in six years. The company’s Smart Energy dryers will respond to peak-energy prices by lowering power consumption, saving money for homeowners and easing stress [...]
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Landmark 2nd Circuit ruling may open gates for climate cases

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Greenwire: Climate change lawsuits gained new urgency for environmentalists and industry groups alike last week when a federal appeals court issued a ruling that both sides see as a potential game changer. In that case, Connecticut v. AEP, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ panel sided with a coalition of eight states, New [...]
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The Coalfield Uprising

By | Published: September 30, 2009
The Nation: When the Environmental Protection Agency declared this year on September 11 that all pending mountaintop removal mining permits in four Appalachian states stood in violation of the Clean Water Act and required further review, Lora Webb didn’t have time to join in any celebrations. As she and her husband, Steve, a coal miner, [...]
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Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Inter Press Service: In early 2008, Saudi Arabia announced that, after being self-sufficient in wheat for over 20 years, the non-replenishable aquifer it had been pumping for irrigation was largely depleted. In response, officials said they would reduce their wheat harvest by one-eighth each year until production would cease entirely in 2016. The Saudis [...]
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Sri Lanka: Mixed Hopes amid Unpredictable Weather Shifts

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Inter Press Service: As the world awaits with bated breath the much-anticipated outcome of the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December, the impact of which will reverberate across the globe, Sri Lanka, like many other countries, has been reeling under sharply contrasting weather conditions. That is, parts of the island have been experiencing [...]
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Rift at U.S. Chamber of Commerce over climate change

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Reuters: The fight over climate change has spread to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where prominent members of the American big-business lobby — including Nike, Johnson & Johnson and Exelon — are publicly disputing the group’s stance on global warming legislation. The most recent critic, Exelon Corp, announced on Monday it would not renew [...]
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EPA to delay 79 coal mining permits in 4 states

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Associated Press: President Barack Obama’s administration put the brakes on 79 applications for surface coal mining permits in four states Wednesday, saying they would violate the Clean Water Act. The action is the administration’s latest attempt to curb environmental damage from a highly efficient but damaging mining practice known as mountaintop removal. Each permit [...]
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Climate control debate heats up in Senate

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Reuters: President Barack Obama’s drive to fight global warming got a boost on Wednesday as Democrats in the U.S. Senate unveiled a bill aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the next four decades. The plan aims to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases over the next decades by encouraging broader [...]
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Farmed Out: How Will Climate Change Impact World Food Supplies?

By | Published: September 30, 2009
Scientific American: The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads. Although, historically, such droughts are not uncommon in this region, their frequency seems to have increased in recent years, raising prices for staple foods, such as [...]
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