A new academic research study has revealed it is better for the environment to order the weekly supermarket shop to be delivered to your doorstep with carbon emission savings of up to 75%. University of Washington engineers have found that using a supermarket delivery service can cut carbon dioxide emissions by at least half...
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Los Angeles, a city more often known for its celebrity sightings and Hollywood stars, also shines bright in the solar arena. The City of Angels has dazzled in the last decade with a strong record of sustainability. So much so that on April 19th, local and national government representatives as well as business leaders...
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One of the problems with wind power is that when there is no wind then there is no power. Offshore wind could provide abundant electricity — but as with solar energy, this power supply can be intermittent and unpredictable. A new approach from researchers at MIT could mitigate that problem, allowing the electricity generated...
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As an electric vehicle fan, I can appreciate the range anxiety concern. I am driving a Chevy Volt which is great since it has a range extending gasoline engine. Since I enjoy driving in in EV mode so much, and that range is only 35 – 40 miles for me, I decided to go...
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Anthropogenic US greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) amounted to a CO2-equivalent 6,702.3 million metric tons in 2011, down 1.6 percent from 2010 and 6.9 percent below 2005 levels. Longer term, US GHG emissions have increased at an annual average rate of 0.4 percent since 1990, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 18th annual US...
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For the past three months the White House sought to strengthen the nation’s background check system for gun sales by making a two-part argument: it was the right thing to do, and 90 percent of Americans supported the idea. Read full article >>
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Bethesda-based Lockheed Martin is known as the largest defense contractor in the world, building military aircraft, satellites and ships. Now it wants to be a power company. As government contractors see pressure on government spending, they’re taking another look at the technology and capabilities they have and finding ways to redirect those skills. Read...
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Under an indigo pre-dawn sky, as a frigid wind whipped across the plains, a half-dozen brown-and-white birds emerged from tufts of dry grass. They emitted a low cooing sound, akin to the hooting of an owl. Read full article >>
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Solar power or natural gas power? How about both? Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The system converts natural gas and sunlight...
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At the end of what President Obama called “a pretty shameful day for Washington,” he spent more than two hours Wednesday night engaged in a spirited discussion with a dozen Democratic senators at the Jefferson Hotel. Read full article >>
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One in an occasional series of observational pieces keyed off the White House daily briefing. The rest of Washington might have already declared a bipartisan gun control measure dead before it lost 54-56, but White House press secretary Jay Carney was having none of it shortly before the vote. Read full article >>
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A parcel addressed to President Obama containing a suspicious substance was intercepted Tuesday by authorities at a remote White House mail screening facility, the Secret Service confirmed Wednesday. The confirmation came an hour after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vowed in a floor speech that “justice will be delivered” when it comes to...
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The U.S. Air Force is the largest energy user in the federal government. The federal government accounts for about one percent of total U.S. energy use, most of that is used by the Department of Defense (DOD). The Air Force accounts for 48 percent of the DOD’s energy costs, which equates to about 2.5...
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In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell posed a provocative question in the wake of the Boston bombings: Have Americans become complacent about the risk of terrorism? Read full article >>
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President Obama told reporters Tuesday morning that federal authorities are investigating Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon “as an act of terrorism,” though they still did not know who perpetrated the attack and what might have been the motive. Read full article >>
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The White House on Tuesday issued its final plan for managing the nation’s oceans, outlining a strategy that aims to coordinate the work of more than two dozen agencies and reconcile competing interests including fishing, offshore energy exploration and recreational activities. Read full article >>
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According to government estimates, 138,500 whales and dolphins will soon be injured and possibly killed along the East Coast if exploration companies are allowed to use dangerous blasts of noise to search for offshore oil and gas. The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) is considering allowing geophysical companies, working on behalf of oil...
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InsideClimate News, which won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on Monday for its coverage of the 2010 Enbridge pipeline spill in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, has just seven employees and no office. But as Executive Editor Susan White jokes, “We’ve got all the time zones covered.” Read full article >>
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As abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell begins to draw national attention for how he ran his Philadelphia clinic, it raises a question: Can the allegedly egregious acts of one provider shift the broader abortion debate? Read full article >>
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A new chemical process can transform waste sulphur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The team has successfully used the new plastic to make lithium-sulphur batteries and discovered other potential applications, including optical uses.
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This notice is brought to you by the OEHHA. Effective April 11, 2013, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is adding bisphenol A (BPA) (CAS No. 80-05-7) to the list of chemicals known to the State to cause reproductive toxicity for purposes of Proposition 65. The listing of BPA is based on formal identification by...
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