Global planemaker Airbus joined a chorus of concern that a European scheme to charge airlines for carbon emissions risks triggering a full-blown trade war, with implications for plane deals and even Europe’s crippling sovereign debt crisis. Continue reading
Daily Archives: February 13, 2012
Fake steak may feed the world
It looks more like squid than steak and because it lacks the fat and protein found in real cattle, does not taste like traditional beef. So why would anyone eat meat grown in a lab? Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Land use, Meat
Lake Kivu gas: Turning an explosion risk into a power source
More than 1,000 people died in 1986 when a lake in Cameroon released a cloud of CO2 that suffocated entire villages. A much larger lake in Rwanda – with two million people living nearby – is also at risk of eruption, but plans are afoot to make it safer. Continue reading
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Posted in Oil and gas
Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning in France
A French court on Monday declared U.S. biotech giant Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning of a French farmer, a judgment that could lend weight to other health claims against pesticides. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Pesticides
“No nuclear renaissance. Congress should reconsider industry subsidies”
The approval by federal regulators last Thursday of plans to build the nation’s first new nuclear power plants in more than three decades is unlikely to mark the beginning of a “nuclear renaissance” once touted as inevitable by industry officials. Continue reading
Posted in Nuclear power
From the cooler = warmer files
“The Andes, warming for decades, has seen three bitter winters that have left more than 400 dead and aid agencies scrambling.
Experts see the fingerprints of global warming there, too.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Toxoplasmosis: could that latent infection affect people’s behavior?
Infection rates are frighteningly high: as much as 10-20% of the population in the US, 30-40% of Czechs, and 55% in France. Continue reading
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Posted in Public health miscellany
Robert Bryce: New Documentary Illustrates Global Backlash Against Big Wind
After years of successful marketing and lavish subsidies from taxpayers, the global wind industry now finds itself facing an unprecedented backlash. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Air pollution causes mental decline in older women?
Another sad moment for the American Medical Association. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA
Biden’s son sues Obama’s EPA
This is not a political show at all. Continue reading
Posted in Air pollution, EPA
U.S. carbon rules could slam door on new coal plants
“The proposed rule is certainly expected to send the message that coal is dead.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Coal, EPA
LOL: New Element Discovered by Oxford Researchers?
We disagree that the new element is inert. Continue reading
Posted in Odds and ends
Job-acide: Stephen Colbert works to kill Keystone XL jobs
Former comedian Stephen Colbert is giving radical green activist Bill McKibben air time tonight to rally the Left against the Keystone XL pipeline. Since when is killing jobs funny? Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
National preach-in on global warming?
“If we are to love our fellow humans, we cannot insist on our own way of consuming ever more energy.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Claim: Children at risk for ingestion of PAHs from pavement sealant
Is there a problem among children with black-topped driveways? Continue reading
Posted in PAHs
Global warming blamed for shark attacks
That headline contains about all the evidence there is. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Report: Pet deaths prompt tougher rules for flea, tick items
“More dogs and cats are becoming ill – and in some cases even dying – from flea and tick control products, prompting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to place tougher restrictions on the insecticide treatments commonly used on pets and to require revisions to labeling to help pet owners use the products properly.” Continue reading
Posted in Pesticides
Obama’s 2013 budget: A familiar tune for energy
“American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard blasted the proposal to reporters Monday morning. “Unfortunately, his 2013 budget plan returns to the well of bad ideas and backtracks on his State of the Union commitment,” Gerard said.” Continue reading
Posted in Oil and gas
Obama’s budget pablum
“We do not have to choose between having clean air and clean water and growing the economy.” Continue reading
Posted in EPA
Obama’s 2013 budget cuts fossil fuel subsidies
A $4 billion whack. Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy, Oil and gas
