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18 states sue EPA over greenhouse gas pollution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 08:01:03
| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Eighteen states sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday for failing to limit greenhouse gas emissions from new cars and trucks, one year after the Supreme Court ruled that the agency had the power to do so.
The suit seeks EPA's response to the high court's April 2, 2007, ruling, a landmark decision seen as a sharp defeat for the Bush administration's policy on climate change. |
Texas sees higher costs to reap wind power (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 08:01:03
| HOUSTON (Reuters) - The price tag to build new power lines to bring plentiful wind power to Texas' biggest cities could range from $3 billion to $9 billion, the state's electric grid operator said in a report filed with regulators on Wednesday.
Following legislation passed in 2005, the Texas Public Utility Commission began working to speed up construction of high-voltage transmission lines to tap into abundant supplies of renewable power. |
GM plans 1,000 fuel cell cars in California (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 08:01:03
| SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - General Motors Corp plans to have 1,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in California between 2012 to 2014 to comply with the state's goal to put thousands of cleaner cars on its roads.
GM has about 60 Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell vehicles in Southern California now, the automaker's vice president for research & development and planning, Larry Burns, said at the National Hydrogen Association conference here. |
Report: Local Control Saves Forests (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 10:01:13
| NEW YORK - There will likely be fewer wildfires and more trees for future generations if loggers abide by a set of international rules on forest management, says a new study by independent environmentalists. In releasing the 18-page study, the New York-based Rainforest Alliance said minimal deforestation and few wildfires occurred in areas managed according to Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification standards. |
New Species Of Fish Discovered That Would Rather Crawl Than Swim (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 10:01:13
| A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert.
The fish, sighted in Indonesian waters off Ambon Island, has tan- and peach-colored zebra-striping, and rippling folds of skin that obscure its fins, making it look like a glass sculpture that Dale Chihuly might have dreamed up. |
Some Migratory Birds Can't Find Success In Urban Areas (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 10:01:13
| COLUMBUS, Ohio — New research finds fresh evidence that urbanization in the United States threatens the populations of some species of migratory birds.
But the six-year study also refutes one of the most widely accepted explanations of why urban areas are so hostile to some kinds of birds.
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Climate change: research suggests it is not a swindle (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 10:01:13
| New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases. The new evidence shows no reliable connection between the cosmic ray intensity and cloud cover.
Lauded and criticized for offering a possible way out of the dangers of man made climate change, UK TV Channel 4's programme "The Great Global Warming Swindle", broadcast in 2007, suggested that global warming is due to a decrease in cosmic rays over the last hundred years.
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Intelligent Design? Utilities Embrace An Efficiency Evolution (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 10:01:13
| Kara Mertz tries to run an eco-conscious home. She buys wind energy credits to offset her electricity usage, and she owns a solar water heater. But her carbon footprint is still significant, thanks in part to the 20 gadgets her teenage son is constantly recharging.
Fortunately for Mertz, her hometown of Boulder, Colorado, may soon have options that allow far greater control over energy use.
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Americans prefer energy fix to cancer cure: poll (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 04-03-2008 at 10:01:13
| NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nationwide survey of nearly 700 people suggests that Americans would prefer more money be invested in technology to solve the nation's energy ailments than to cure cancer or other diseases.
Some 37 percent of respondents to the poll, conducted by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority in Virginia, said they would rank spending to raise energy efficiency and develop alternative fuel technology a top priority for future investment. That compares with 30 percent who ranked more cash for medical breakthroughs as most important. |
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