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California's Bold Plan to Protect the Planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:18
| LA Times: CURTIS MOORE, Republican counsel for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1979 to 1989, is the coauthor of "Green Gold: Japan, Germany, the United States and the Race for Environment AS TEMPERATURES and sea levels have risen, glaciers receded and snowpacks melted, the governments of the world have dithered over how to save the planet from global warming. Last week, California showed them. I started studying the economics and science of climate ... |
Climate panel lowers global warming forecast (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| Reuters: The world's top climate scientists are slightly less pessimistic in their latest forecasts for global warming over the next 100 years, the Australian newspaper reported on Saturday. A draft report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change obtained by the newspaper says the temperature increase could be contained to two degrees Celsius by 2100, if greenhouse gas emissions were held at current levels. A three-degree Celsius rise in the average global daily temperature is ... |
Govt to sue firms over forest fires (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| Jakarta Post: The government plans to sue three oil palm plantation firms and one oil palm entrepreneur for allegedly starting fires in their concessions that grew into massive forest fires in Riau province. The State Ministry for the Environment identified the companies Friday as PT Subur Arum Makmur, PT Riau Andalan Sentosa and PT Agro Sarimas Indonesia. The individual is identified as Deden. "We will file criminal and civil lawsuits. We're compiling their offenses now," said ... |
United States: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Green governor (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| Independent (UK): Think of Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he hardly comes across as a poster-child for the environmental movement. For much of his movie career, he wasn't engaged in saving the planet so much as causing sizeable chunks of it to blow up. Off camera, he cut a figure almost as extravagant as his muscular physique - flying on private jets, showing up at wantonly lavish Hollywood parties, smoking cigars and single-handedly championing production of the Hummer, a civilian version of the ultra-wide ... |
United States: Dems, governor give pats on back (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| Daily Review: Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Legislature's Democratic majority leaders and analysts Friday say this year's session rose above political gridlock to become one of the most productive in decades. Some Republican lawmakers were not happy about the governor's cooperative election-year attitude, saying he worked more with Democrats than with members of his own party. Damage to Democratic challenger Phil Angelides will be minimal, a campaign spokesman said, because ... |
United States: Massive venture funding for ethanol (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| Mercury News: The alternative energy start-up Cilion has snared an additional $160 million in funding, one of the biggest venture capital investments ever in the ``clean tech'' field. With the latest investment, the company has now raised $200 million toward its goal of building eight ethanol plants by 2008, the first three slated for California. The company plans to produce ethanol from corn. The investment comes at a time of rising business and investment interest in alternative fuels, ... |
Solar energy not on the back burner (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| McClatchy-Tribune News Service: Q: Watching a space shuttle launch on television and once again seeing solar panels on the international space station, I got to wondering why we just aren't using more solar energy here on Earth. Is it too expensive or aren't there that many uses for it yet? Is it something for the future as opposed to something practical today? A: After more than 20 years working in the renewable energy field, I'm used to the question I get from people all the time: ``Solar energy sounds like a good ... |
United States: How Hummer-hugging Arnold is saving the planet (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:19
| Globe and Mail: You gotta love Arnold. Here's a guy who still drives Hummers, the least green vehicle on the planet. You might suspect the former actor and body builder has the brain-to-weight ratio of your average dolphin. Yet this week he won a big victory for himself, for the state of California and for the environment with the Global Warming Solutions Act. In spite of Republic opposition -- Governor Schwarzenegger is a Republican -- the legislation sailed through the state assembly. The act will ... |
World's 'biggest' solar electric plant opens in Germany (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:20
| DPA: A solar electric power plant, billed by its operators as the world's biggest, went into service in the southern German state of Bavaria Friday. More than 1,400 movable solar modules will collect the sun's rays and harness them into energy for around 3,500 households, according to operators Solon AG. The company has invested 70 million euros ($90 million) in the project, which took 15 months to complete and will have an output of 12 megawatts when fully ... |
Aspen joins in Supreme Court case vs. EPA (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 09-02-2006 at 12:00:20
| Vail Daily: The Aspen Skiing Co. Thursday joined a major U.S. Supreme Court case against the Environmental Protection Agency to recognize greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants. The case, in which briefs were due on Thursday, challenges the Bush Administration on global warming. The EPA claims it has no authority under the Clean Air Act to take action in curbing heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. "Congress clearly told EPA it was supposed to regulate pollutants that ... |
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