Emissions Must Peak by 2020, US Says in G8 Draft (Bloomberg)
The U.S. is joining other developed countries for the first time in saying global greenhouse gases should peak by 2020 and the average worldwide temperature shouldn’t rise more than 2 degrees Celsius, according to a draft from the Group of Eight industrialized nations.
Canada, Japan Blocking Copenhagen Progress? (Business Green)
Sir David King, former UK science adviser, accused Canada and Japan of blocking progress towards a meaningful international climate deal. "Copenhagen is faltering at the moment," he said.
EPA Allows TVA to Dump Coal Ash in Alabama (AP)
The nation's largest utility can dump millions of tons of coal ash from a Tennessee spill into an Alabama landfill, federal regulators determined, despite criticism that the plan is unfair to one of Alabama's poorest counties.
Kennedy: President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia (Washington Post)
“If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, mountaintop mining is it,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. writes. “Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day – the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly – to blow up Appalachia's mountains.”
Carbon Chief Suspended Amid Reports of Dodgy Deals (Business Green)
Papua New Guinea's Office of Climate Change director was suspended following reports that he issued unofficial carbon credits from forestry projects worth millions of dollars.
Sen. Boxer Sets Hearings Starting Next Week on Climate (National Journal)
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer has scheduled a four-pack of hearings in the next two weeks to draft climate legislation this summer and continue an ambitious Democratic push to get a plan through Congress this year.
Federal Cliffside Power Plant Expansion Lawsuit Dismissed (Charlotte Observer)
A judge dismissed a federal environmental lawsuit challenging Duke Energy's construction of a $2.4 billion addition to its Cliffside coal-fired power plant, saying the same issues are being decided in state court.
Lessons from the Cello Energy Biofuel Fraud Case (Earth2Tech)
As far as speed bumps for cellulosic ethanol ventures go, this one’s a doozy: Jurors have ordered Cello Energy, a biofuel startup run by Alabama’s former ethics chairman and backed by a big Silicon Valley investor, to pay more than $10 million in a fraud case.
Planned US Nuclear Recycling Facility Faces the Ax (Nature)
The Obama administration has quietly cancelled plans for a large-scale facility to recycle nuclear fuel. The move may prove fatal to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, set up by George W. Bush.
Renewable Energy Financing Rebounds – in Europe (Wall Street Journal)
Bankers are funding renewable energy projects again – at least in Europe, according to new second-quarter figures from New Energy Finance. But there is reason to believe the U.S. situation is better than the numbers indicate – and the European situation is worse.
Green Power Takes Root in the Chinese Desert (New York Times)
As the United States takes its first steps toward mandating that power companies generate more electricity from renewable sources, China already has a similar requirement and is investing billions to remake itself into a green energy superpower.
Santa Monica: Hide Solar Panels from View (Los Angeles Times)
Santa Monica has held itself up as a model of innovative energy policies, but the City Council now says equipment must be installed "in the location that is least visible from the street" on certain properties.
Coal Country: The Film Big Coal Does Not Want You to See (Huffington Post)
Coal Country, a hard-hitting documentary on the cradle-to-grave process of generating coal-fired electricity, hits theatres next week, and even though the film lets the industry tell its side of the story, Friends of Coal is preparing a show of protesters.
That is just awful
That is just awful
CO2 the problem for
CO2 the problem for everything? Better stop breathing. Keep the oceans from releasing it too. What about that other very effective GHG--water vapor? Look into all the areas of the Earth
What is your immediate
What is your immediate solution to your "mean coal" claim to power our modern society? Over 50% of our electrcity comes from coal, the next largest is nuclear.
Do you walk the walk? Do you recycle religously? What do you do to conserve our resources? Most of the "environmentalists" I know are not much more than vengeful hippocrites.
I really enjoyed reading all
I really enjoyed reading all of your posts, thanks admin.
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Toxic Coal Sludge
No product from this refined, treated processed resource flow? Shame, Yankee Engineers, Shame! You also let huge amounts of fairly clean CO2 up your stacks at coal fired power plants, and the "Cooling Towers" a symbol of your inept, pis poor abilities to extract power - you asshvles waste half the heat from the fuel to the wind! Not so in Sweden, they put this heat to good use! and from the fission(death-machine) reactors too! Yankee Doodle engineers, tooling around in the new 2009, 620 Hp, 231 Mph, 8 Mpg, engineered "just in time" for recession, Corvette, their car of choice, can hardly understand frugality. With the "Cheap Oil Age" ending, and the great republican depression worsening, and now spreading world-wide, these over-indulged egomaniacs will give way to the Chinese trained intelligentsia, coming to our shores in droves, and be displaced by smarter, more ambitious, less indoctrinated, individuals, if not from China alone, certainly from the rest of Asia, and America will see brighter days! The day of comeuppance is here, now!
I know are not much more
I know are not much more than vengeful hippocrites. My family of four recycles everything possible, producing on average only 2 kitchen trash bags per month. Our thermostat is set at 65 F. We don't turn on the AC until the internal house temp. reaches at least 85 F. We are conservative, yet we do more to protect the environment that most so-called environmentalists do. We do not favor big government, and sure as hell don't want the government to tax me to death to "study" the biggest hoax of our time "anthropogenic global warming". And the "science" in "Inconvenient Truth" is a joke. Bad graphs, misleading diagrams.
The reserves have already
The reserves have already been proven suitable for sequestration. And, instead of just burying a coal plant's CO2 into the Earth with nothing to do, it would give the CO2 a purpose: to produce more oil or natural gas. CO2 the problem for everything? Better stop breathing. Keep the oceans from releasing it too. What about that other very effective GHG--water vapor? Look into all the areas of the Earth
get rid of coal
Yeah, that's right. Let's get rid of coal so we can all go back to live in the Dark Ages. What is your immediate solution to your "mean coal" claim to power our modern society? Over 50% of our electrcity comes from coal, the next largest is nuclear.
Do you walk the walk? Do you recycle religously (that means also saving your recyclable "trash" from eating out)? What do you do to conserve our resources? Most of the "environmentalists" I know are not much more than vengeful hippocrites. My family of four recycles everything possible, producing on average only 2 kitchen trash bags per month. Our thermostat is set at 65 F. We don't turn on the AC until the internal house temp. reaches at least 85 F. We are conservative, yet we do more to protect the environment that most so-called environmentalists do. We do not favor big government, and sure as hell don't want the government to tax me to death to "study" the biggest hoax of our time "anthropogenic global warming". And the "science" in "Inconvenient Truth" is a joke. Bad graphs, misleading diagrams... CO2 the problem for everything? Better stop breathing. Keep the oceans from releasing it too. What about that other very effective GHG--water vapor? Look into all the areas of the Earth. Only human arrogance can claim they have the power to change the Earth. Ever heard of sunspots? Volcanism? Orbit eccentricity? Precession? Even the reduced particulates (a good thing) brought about by the Clean Air Act (ever consider the possibility that with less pollutants in the atmosphere that more solar energy reaches the surface? The myriad other possibilities out there that cause climate change are not part of the so-called research. Leave coal alone. It's not the problem, people wasting it is.
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