Monthly Archives: June 2010

/. Airports in Germany have come up with an unusual approach to monitoring air quality. The Düsseldorf International Airport and seven other airports are using bees as “biodetectives,” their honey regularly tested for toxins. “Air quality at and around the airport is excellent,” said Peter Nengelken, the airport’s community liaison. The first batch of...
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AltEnergy On June 22nd Scientific American rolled-out a Web-only article titled “The Dirty Truth about Plug-in Hybrids, Made Interactive” that summarizes a January 2008 report from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and shows why plug-in vehicles in the U.S. will, on average, be just a little bit dirtier than gasoline HEVs. You read that right...
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British Columbia is currently experiencing a Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak beyond any bark beetle epidemic recorded in North American history. This eco-system altering epidemic is causing widespread mortality of the lodgepole pine forests, the province’s most abundant commercial tree species. At the current rate of spread, 50% of the mature pine will be dead...
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FUKUI — Kansai Electric Power Co has decided to extend operation of the 40-year-old No. 1 reactor at the Mihama nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture for another 10 years, which will make it the longest operating among domestic nuclear reactors, informed sources said Saturday.
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Telegraph In China, cracks are appearing – in the neighborhood of the massive Three Gorges Dam…a series of landslips, minor earthquakes and cracks appearing in roads and buildings along the central section of the Yangtse, between the dam and the city of Chongqing. Almost 10,000 “dangerous sites” have been identified, but many of the...
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 Who’s the Scientist? Seventh graders describe scientists before and after a visit to Fermilab. “A scientist is hardworking, studious, detail-oriented, observant, intelligent, exacting, and patient. When I think of a scientist, I think of someone who sets out to find the facts without predetermining what the outcome is. During this process a scientist must...
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/.- “Mark Suppes, a web developer for Gucci, is working on his own personal fusion reactor. His work in a NYC warehouse using $35,000 of his own money and $4,000 raised on a website has made him the 38th independent researcher recognized as creating a working fusion reactor. How’s that for a hobby?” Hey...
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Via p2tech California consumers worried about toxic chemicals in the products they purchase got a glimpse of a brighter future today with the release of a draft regulation that sets forth a process for the design of safer products. Released by the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the Draft Regulation for Safer Consumer...
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kWhOURS is an operating platform for commercial energy auditors that provides mobile data collection, calculation, and report generation, helping to reduce the time and cost of conducting an energy audit. The platform combines unique software and a touch-screen tablet PC for mobile data collection. Once data are entered, the auditor logs on to the...
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If it’s O.K. for the president…What argument do parents have? For the first time in the history of the Synar program rate of tobacco sales to minors has increased. The national weighted average rate of tobacco sales to minors (RVR) as reported by States and the District of Columbia in their Federal fiscal year...
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When asked USGS water resources expert he reacted to that question without hesitation (and without any data, which he noted) that the hypoxia insult to the Gulf “most likely dwarfs” the impact from the spill. As we already know the Oil spill will worsen dead zone… and blue fin tune nightmare.
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Earth911 as the oil spill in the Gulf continues to dominate headlines, environmental legislation has become an even more hot-button issue in Washington as well.   One of the newest pieces of legislation introduced to the Senate is the Environmental Crimes Enforcement Act (ECEA). Introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the bill aims to...
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Businessweek / Bloomberg shareholders have nothing to fear from Russian state control. “If you look at the amount of uranium that Rosatom has been shipping off to the United States and Canada, you can effectively say that a portion of America’s lights have been kept on by Russia,” “There were some concerns with having...
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Put simply, the capacity for something to go very, very wrong as a result of technical mismanagement (or otherwise). Now, there are surely a great number of things that could also fit the bill, but I highlight these for a reason: In the wake of the BP spill, there are numerous calls for ramping...
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C&E News -  Common household insecticides reached detectable levels in the blood of the majority of babies born at an urban hospital, new research in Environmental Science & Technology (DOI: 10.1021/es1009778) reports. The researchers studied the “non-persistent” pesticides bendiocarb, propoxur, and permethrin, which are common consumer products for lawns, backyards, and indoor pest control....
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U.S. gasoline deliveries for May dipped to the lowest May level since 2003, according to the American Petroleum Institute’s Monthly Statistical Report. “This downward movement compared with year-on-year increases for both March 2010 and April 2010 indicates that gasoline demand is more sensitive to higher prices and to the effects of the sluggish economic...
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NY Post -   a Harvard University study’s estimate of the per-gallon price of the president’s global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess. So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill? Good question, because such measures...
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Why is The U.S. Budget is unsustainable?  Spending on entitlement programs and interest on the national debt are now accelerating at exponential rates.  Some time around 2020 they will eat up every single dollar of federal revenue that is brought in before a penny is spent on anything else.  Of course the solution to...
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Hugger – With water shortages constraining food production growth, the world needs an effort to raise water productivity similar to the one that nearly tripled land productivity over the last half-century. Since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain, it is not surprising that 70 percent of world water...
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Hugger- Michael Graham Richard Passive Solar One Step Water Condensation has the potential to help provide clean drinking water for millions of people who are lacking access to clean water (or if they do, maybe the access is intermittent and they could use a plan B). This could save many lives for sure….durable, easy...
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We did it nearly 100 years ago and now “In the future, we might be heating our houses with dog poop.” Several countries do this and some even survive by it.San Francisco Animal feces make up nearly 4 percent of San Francisco’s residential waste — nearly as much as disposable diapers — so it...
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What could be more stupid than 63.7 million people farming on computers? How about your food farming subsidizes going to the rich…NY Press – Want fiscal reform? Let’s start by targeting the fattest farm subsidy checks—which are mailed to the richest New York ZIP codes. Most people know next to nothing about this $20...
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OnMilwaukee- As millions of gallons of oil continue to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, a group of Milwaukeeans prepare to live, by choice, without electricity and other conveniences in conjunction with a local, underground event called “Power Down Week.”As millions of gallons of oil continue to spill into the Gulf of Mexico, a...
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OD post from the past ‘oh how I love thee’ Peak Oil science curriculum suitable for introductory college science classes, advanced high school classes, and adult…  A repeat of a post from February 2008. Also see GOOD Transparency -OIL PRIMER A collaboration between GOOD and Stanford Kay. As always ‘thanks Gail’ for putting it...
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German Clean-Power Boom for renewable energy is “breaking” the nation’s ability to pay for power and threatens the competitiveness of electricity producers, Handelsblatt cited a former industry group leader as saying.Guaranteed prices for solar and wind power, paid for by consumers, are threatening the renewable-energy industry’s ability to compete, the report said… Read full...
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WTF – No one can figure out a better way to hold the red cross accountable other than stripping ten of millions of dollars in donations from the worlds number one provider of emergency care? Where do they think the money is coming from? The FDA announced today that they have fined the worlds...
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First Climategate, Then Glaciergate, Now Amazongate and … Hurricanegate? Proponents of catastrophic man-made global warming gave critics a lot of ammunition when emails leaked from the East Anglia University Climatic Research Unit indicated that some prominent climate scientists may have been manipulating data… everything has gone south. Mongabay- The Sunday Times over the weekend...
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As technologies designed to help extract energy and other valuable products from wastewater sludge mature, the market opportunity for resource recovery will grow from $25 billion today to $45 billion in 2020, according to a recently released Lux Research report titled “Technologies Turn Waste into Profit LUX’s Graphic (below) focuses on methods for recovering...
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Associated Press — A Florida couple should receive more than just the costs of gutting and renovating their home: they were also awarded damages for loss of enjoyment of the $1.6 million house and for …Defective, sulfur-emitting Chinese drywall has been linked to possible health problems along with a noxious odor, corrosion of wiring,...
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My last post was sooo depressing I needed to ad a little ‘hope and $change$’ “I think I could have a fairly healthy diet on $1 a day,” I replied. “At least a lot healthier than you think.” “You couldn’t last a month,” she said sure of herself. Thus the “Eating Well on $1...
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Guardian  – The forecasts are for wheat and coarse grain prices over the next 10 years to be between 15% and 40% higher in real terms, once adjusted for inflation, than their average levels during the 1997-2006 period, the decade before the price spike of 2007-08. Real prices for vegetable oils are expected to...
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Alex Kearns, posted this image on her website today, along with the following description: A researcher captured this image. A discarded flag (or one that has fallen from one of the many vessels in the area) rests on the ocean floor amid the oil and the bodies of dead crabs. A two-inch layer of...
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Now we’re reaching “peak water” THE planet is far from running out of water, but many countries are beginning to exhaust the local supplies they need to maintain agricultural productivity and ecosystem health. Welcome to the age of “peak water”
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NASA warns solar flares from ‘huge space storm’ will cause devastation  Didn’t I talk about this a couple years ago? – Yep… while the chicken little’s were taking top spots in the media over ‘global warming’. The real threat was a brewing.  Telegraph National power grids could overheat and air travel severely disrupted while...
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NewYorkPost Afghanistan never before offered so much to fight over. Instead of making life easier for our troops, the finds will make it harder to disengage. Washington will succumb to arguments that we need to preserve access to these strategic resources, even though it’s far cheaper to buy them than to prolong a military...
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The Hill Climate change legislation appears dead after two setbacks in quick succession — first from the Oval Office and then from Congress. Sen. Scott Brown (Mass.), a crucial Republican swing vote, met with President Barack Obama on Wednesday and told him he would not support a cap-and-trade plan or carbon fee to limit...
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At the moment, there’s no silver bullet when it comes to achieving carbon neutrality, but there’s also no shortage of ideas and effort.  Which community is most inspiring to you? - JetsonGreen Popular Science just published an interesting roundup of green communities in an article now titled, “Nine of the World’s Most Promising Carbon-Neutral...
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Inhabitat – Zerotracer Superbike to Circle Globe in 80 Days on Renewable Energy Swiss group Design Werk recently unveiled their sleek Zerotracer electric motorcycle, which will attempt to travel around the world in eighty days using only renewable energy in the upcoming Zero Emissions Race. The bike has a top speed of 160 miles...
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PopSci – National Renewable Energy Laboratory has invented a new air conditioning system that uses 50 to 90 percent less energy than the best available units. The Desiccant-Enhanced eVaporative air conditioner — DEVap — combines membranes, evaporative cooling and liquid desiccants in a way that has never been done before. NREL mechanical engineer Eric...
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VIA – The Great P2 Browser Laura Barnes The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new technical assistance program to help state capital cities design more sustainable communities. Greening America’s Capitals will assist state capitals, selected through a competitive application process, develop a vision of distinctive, environmentally friendly neighborhoods that incorporate innovative...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency is offering a Listening Session on Thursday, June 24 from 2:00-4:00 PM Central as an opportunity to provide comments on the negotiations to amend the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement at the US EPA Region 5 Office in the Ralph Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL...
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“Of all the ‘mainstream’ forms of renewable energy, it seems that geothermal power is always left in the shadows compared to solar and wind power. However, that looks set to change with news that the US Department of Energy will fund geothermal projects in northwestern Nevada and southeast Oregon. With funds from the American...
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A little ouch in the wound from Huffington Post What Obama Should Have Said: Two Truths And Three Actions If President Obama can send our children and our treasure to war for Iraq and Afghanistan certainly we can expect him to fight for us right here on our own beachhead… Obama Should Have Said...
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WSJ: Dr. David Michaels, assistant secretary for Fed-OSHA, said last week that workers hired by BP PLC to clean up spilled oil do not need respirators, despite complaints from some employees and lawmakers about toxic fumes. Wall Street Journal Haase – Sorry guys, I think employee air monitoring determines if a respirator is required....
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The agency’s direct final rule will not alter the national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants for paints and allied products manufacturing that are area sources of air toxics; instead, the rule will amend the definition of “material containing hazardous air pollutants” to include non-carcinogens in quantities of 1.0 percent by mass or more,...
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I knew EPA has recently been given ‘historic power’ but now in charge of ‘economic modeling’? EPA conducts climate economic analyses to estimate the economic and environmental effects of potential domestic climate change mitigation programs and strategies. Given the complexity of economic and environmental interactions underlying the climate change issue, no one model can...
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Mongabay: Battered by a faltering world economy and lack of progress on U.S. climate legislation, voluntary carbon markets declined by nearly every measure in 2009, according to the fourth annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market Report issued today by Ecosystem Marketplace and Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The report recorded a 26 percent drop...
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We reached peak oil in 2008 and a peak demand in 2012 or 2013 will bring pain at the pumps and armies.http://www.pickensplan.com/act/ Business leaders predict ‘global oil supply crunch and price spike’ The Chief Executive Officer of insurance giants Lloyds is warning that the world is facing a “period of deep uncertainty” over the...
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I believe Dr. Chu’s genius may be showing… the best dollar for dollar energy return on investment our country can make is in geothermal and energy efficiencies  – Haase DOE – Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced a conditional commitment to provide a partial guarantee for a $98.5 million loan by John Hancock Financial...
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NextBigFuture These machines have 512 Intel Atom processors, — all in a server that is just 17.5 inches high, or about a quarter of the space of a typical server rack. It requires no custom software and works in “plug and play” manner with any x86 (Intel-compatible) server data center. You can use x86...
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OSHA “Introduction to OSHA,” a new training component emphasizing workers’ rights, is required content in every OSHA 10- and 30-hour Outreach Training Program class. OSHA developed the information in support of the Secretary of Labor’s goal of strengthening the voice of workers. This information affects hundreds of thousands of workers who complete Outreach Training...
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Question: ” I Drive a Prius. What Are You Doing?” Answer: Thanks Hugger – Classic
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Inhabitots  Quantities of lead in bottled juice, juice boxes, and packaged fruit could exceed federal limits for the lunchbox-toting set, according to the Environmental Law Foundation. The Bay Area-based environmental nonprofit, which enlisted the aid of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab in Berkeley, tested nearly 400 samples from 150 branded products marketed to...
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“Going down the same assembly line, you can do battery electric, a plug-in hybrid, a hybrid, an efficient petrol, or an efficient diesel vehicle,” says Nancy Gioia, Ford’s director of global electrification. “That makes it very robust to what undoubtedly will be a volatile market for the next 10 years.” (source)
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QuickTakes, OSHA posted 26 years of data on a Web page …detailing workplace exposures to toxic chemicals such as asbestos, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, and silica. This Web page has since been enhanced by the addition of a search engine to make the data more accessible and expand its usefulness as a research...
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If someone is seeking some ‘ass to kick’ for oils spills… they may want to start with Nigeria. As our nation is considering opening up the Oil flow with Nigeria, this is the time to do it.* Guardian: Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it Imagine BP’s Deepwater...
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Toshiba announced on March 17, 2010, that it has closed down its production lines for 103 types of regular incandescent light bulb. Toshiba closed the lines one year earlier than initially planned, as decided in 2008 as a part of its carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction initiative. The company expects that discontinuing the production will...
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WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!COMMUNITY INPUT MEETING – WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2010 FOR THE LINCOLN PARK AND MILWAUKEE RIVER CHANNELS SEDIMENT REMEDIATION PROJECTYou can receive updates, provide input, and voice your concerns aboutthe sediment remediation project and related habitat restoration, health, and recreation issues. Date/Time: Wednesday, June 16. 6-8 pm Location: Blatz Pavilion...
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We can either blame the meat and dairy industry for their contributions to environmental harm and green house gasses… or understand that ‘renewable farming’ can save billions, and reduce global environmental and green house gas impacts. Or just keep taxing and regulating the snot out of anything that produces food or energy… From Green-Trust...
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Idaho Samizdat: Nuke Notes The future of nuclear energy will be found in software. The Department of Energy announced this week it will spend $122 million over the next five years to establish and operate a new Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub. The project is called the “Consortium for Advanced Simulation...
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Hugger A five-year study conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) researchers has found that pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities are a “significant source” of pharmaceuticals that enter the local environment.  From 2004 to 2009, USGS researchers tested outflow samples from two wastewater treatment plants in New York State where more than 20 percent of the water...
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Six US Senate Democrats voted to block EPA action on climate change; measure FAIL -  A Senate resolution to block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases failed narrowly Thursday, providing a temporary respite to environmental activists hoping to enact a mandatory cap on emissions before the end of the year.But the 47...
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Alternate Text:The figure above shows the prevalence of selected unhealthy behavior-related characteristics among adults aged ≥18 years, by poverty status, in the United States, during 2005-2007. U.S. adults in with the lowest family incomes were more likely than adults with the highest family incomes to be current cigarette smokers (28.3% versus 15.1%), to be...
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‘We Are Totally Unprepared’ –Nine years after 9/11, a chilling complacency about WMD attacks. …A deputy assistant attorney general for policy and planning is quoted as saying “it is not clear” who in the department is responsible for handling WMD response. Workers interviewed said the department’s operational response program “lacks leadership and oversight.” An...
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I can’t imagine anyone who is selling a finite commodity that has peaked could even considered for the  Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI)??? But this week BP has been pulled from the global Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) in the wake of the giant oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Dow Jones...
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PopSci theelements Courtesy Theodore Gray The planet has limited resources of several important elements, many of which can do what no other element can. Here’s what’s left of the periodic table, and what would happen if we run out Most congresspeople probably haven’t thought about chemistry since high school, but they’ll soon have to...
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Rollings stones “The Spill, The Scandal and the President” goes into a full out bashing faulting Obama, Bush and pretty much anyone who doesn’t work for them in “The inside story of how Obama failed to crack down on the corruption of the Bush years – and let the world’s most dangerous oil company...
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The New York Times reports: a nuclear reactor where a hidden leak caused near-catastrophic corrosion in 2002 has experienced a second bout of the same problem. In 2002, the plant, Davis-Besse, in Oak Harbor, Ohio, developed leaks in parts on the vessel head, allowing cooling water from inside the vessel, at 2,200 pounds per...
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IF this whole things was about mitigating CO2 emissions… we would start by reducing energy and extinguishing CO2 waste like the 1000′s of coal seam fires contributing nearly as much CO2 as our ‘target’ to reduce by 2030?DISCOVERY:There are thousands of coal fires actively burning around the world. It is estimated that China, the...
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EPA  – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is issuing a final new health standard for sulfur dioxide (SO2). This one-hour health standard will protect millions of Americans from short-term exposure to SO2, which is primarily emitted from power plants and other industrial facilities. Exposure to SO2 can aggravate asthma and cause other respiratory...
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Via David Roberts at the Grist: the climate bill’s already slim chances are now considerably slimmer.Lindsey Graham — an original cosponsor of the Senate climate bill — has been backing away from that bill for a while. Now, according to CongressDaily, he’s gone entirely: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., today said he would vote against...
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GreenChange The rate of children living in poverty this year will climb to nearly 22%, the highest rate in two decades, according to an analysis by the non-profit Foundation for Child Development… increasing the cost of energy and subsidizing energy loss crops that compete with food crops will continue the war on poverty ....
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GOOD: The folks at Fast Company have come up with this excellent graphic of the scope of the oil spill (click here for full size). The graphic shows that the current spill is still about 100 million gallons behind the Ixtoc I spill from 1979, but that its clean-up costs have already exceeded even...
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Guardian – China’s ‘cancer villages’ reveal dark side of economic boom“China appears to have produced more cancer clusters in a few decades than the rest of the world ever had,” he notes. Such stories have become much more common in China in recent years as breakneck economic growth increasingly takes its toll on the...
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The National Conversation is taking this virtual dialogue into the real world by inviting the public to host and participate in nationwide Community Conversations through the end of June—and we once again invite you to share this information with your readers. To support these conversations, the National Conversation is providing a downloadable Community Conversation...
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New Weekly Petroleum Status Report Debuts June 9, 2010 EIA WASHINGTON, DC - Beginning today, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is publishing weekly fuel ethanol production, inventory, and import data in its Weekly Petroleum Status Report (WPSR), one of EIA’s most closely followed petroleum data publications. “The addition of weekly ethanol data and...
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Boing2 Would you drink from a cooler of water littered (literally) with old toothbrushes, candy wrappers, film, drinking straws, and other plastic detritus? What if that cooler represents our oceans, circa 2030? Plastic Century is a simple-but-provocative art installation that demands you to consider, in a visceral way, how plastic is impacting our environment....
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It is interesting that the entire planet is playing the blame game on the oil spill.Selling millions of newspapers, receiving 1,000′s of hours of coverage on TV and internet. And even at the Grist and hugger… their sites are seeing massive traffic playing the blame game: Nice graphic and spin. But ‘we’ are to...
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The Story of Bottled Water: (from boing2) When tap water is contaminated, the story is usually carried on the news that evening because water agencies are required to report it to the public and take quick action to correct the problem. Because the frequency of testing for bottled water is much lower and the...
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Russia updates generation plans to 2030 -To meet demand, Russia is planning to introduce 173 GWe of new generating capacity, including 43.4 GWe of nuclear by 2030. In 2009, the country’s nuclear reactors generated some 152.8 terawatt-hours (TWh), accounting for almost 18% of Russia’s total electricity production. And Growth of nuclear energy drives need...
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Maybe not EHS related but can anyone else here see how these are related?(CNN) – Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama resigned Wednesday after eight months in power. “I’m going to step down,” “I have had many shortcomings, I have been allowed to lead all of you for the past eight months to today. I...
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Hurry for free OSHA Federal Worker Training on Private Sector’s Safety StandardsOS&H – The three-day OSHA training event has been scheduled for federal agency staff responsible for workplace safety and health issues. This training, happening June 22-24 at the OSHA Training Institute at 2020 South Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005 , is...
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CAl-OSHA – “The current penalty structure is too low to compel companies to take workplace safety as seriously as they should,” a federal OSHA spokesman, Michael Wald, wrote to the Review-Journal this week after it inquired about Michaels’ remarks. Despite inflation, the agency’s penalties have increased only once in the past 40 years, Michaels...
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CNN – Could things get any worse for BP? Maybe. As the oil continues to flow, some are charging that another BP operation in the Gulf is an even bigger disaster in the making.  “…This platform ,” they wrote, “may be operating without crucial engineering documents, which, if absent, would increase the risk of...
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Sorry, it’s just math. There is no possible, plausible or feasible way to think we can invest the billions needed to move away from coal and fossil fuels in the next decade in this “debt super cycle.” Better start investing in energy options that offer EROI CBS News The National Debt topped $13-trillion for...
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Spoiler Alert – Deepwell, off shore,  shale oil and coal is our ‘planned future’… AltEnergyStocks: The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released its Annual Energy Outlook 2010 (AEO 2010) last week, with projections out to 2035. It makes for interesting reading. Most notable was its take on peak oil, natural gas vehicles and on converting...
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AltEnergyStocks -  Last week the American Chemical Society published a white paper in Environmental Science & Technology from a team of researchers at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and the Argonne National Laboratory Center for Transportation Research titled “Environmental Implication of Electric Vehicles in China.” This white paper concludes that: Implementing electric vehicles in China will...
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Deep drilling – The BIG picture… we will not stop until oil is gone. energy bulletin With Federal regulators approving a new Gulf of Mexico oil well and the Canadian government continuing to support deepwater drilling off its own coasts, it looks like business as usual for the oil industry despite media coverage of...
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The bill would establish within the Department of Energy a “Supply Star” program that would offer grants to help smaller businesses identify and utilize best practices in supply chain efficiency such as materials, manufacturing, packaging, transport, and use and disposal of goods. Read full at paint.org
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Thorium Energy Expert: David LeBlanc “…every indication points to a power reactor that will excel in cost, safety, long-term waste reduction, resource utilization, and proliferation resistance.” Read more Bill Gates Invest in Thorium Capable Reactor Venture – Bill Gates received a standing ovation at this year’s TED Conference when he talked about energy and...
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Attached to the emergency supplemental spending legislation (H.R. 4899) passed by the U.S. Senate on May 28, was an amendment delaying enforcement of an EPA rule, which went into effect last month. If agreed to by the House, the delay would last until October. Full article at Paint.org
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NextBigFuture:  There are currently (2009 study) six technologies for electricity storage that are under active consideration for commercial deployment: pumped hydropower, compressed air storage (CAES), batteries, flywheels, superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) and “super” capacitors. They are in various stages of development and commercialization and offer differing advantages. Pumped hydropower storage uses off-peak electric...
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Renewable Energy World - Following a record-breaking year of capacity additions in 2009—with 9.8 GW of wind projects installed—the U.S. wind market finds itself confronting a growth-constrained 2010 and a near-term market landscape wrought with increased competition, according to a new market study, U.S. Wind Power Markets and Strategies: 2010-2025 from IHS Emerging Energy...
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The new Leaf electric car is not scheduled to arrive at dealerships until January 2011, and that model year is already sold out. CEO Carlos Ghosn has not yet decided if the automaker will continue to take preorders for the electric auto. T After speaking to the Detroit Economic Club, CEO Ghosn said that...
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After years of study and debate, the state has landed an $810 million federal grant to build a high-speed train line from Milwaukee to Madison. At the same time, Milwaukee-area authorities are seeking federal permission to start preliminary engineering on a $283.5 million commuter rail line from Milwaukee to Kenosha and a $95.8 million...
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Cal-OSHA Quote of the day:“Simply put, serious violations … that result in death or serious bodily injury should be felonies like insider trading, tax crimes, customs violations and anti-trust violations. Nothing focuses attention like the possibility of going to jail.” Dr. David Michaels, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Fed-OSHAPalm Beach Post (via-CalOSHA)  
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