A new study in Nature says that the global uptake of carbon by land plants may be up to 45 per cent more than previously thought. Continue reading
Daily Archives: September 29, 2011
EPA pulls secondhand smoke trick on TCE
EPA says in a new assessment that the widely used solvent trichloroethylene (TCE) is carcinogenic to humans by all routes of exposure. But the EPA has simply pulled the same trick on TCE as it did on environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) — a trick that got the EPA’s ETS cancer risk assessment trashed by a federal court. Continue reading
Posted in Trichloroethylene (TCE)
WSJ: A Bird-Brained Prosecution
The Obama administration is prosecuting seven oil and gas companies for the deaths of 28 birds. But what about the wind industry? Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
