January 21, 2008 – 3:49 am
EarthJustice
Despite surging fuel prices, DOE defends wasteful standards
January 17, 2008
New York, NY — Environmental advocates and state and city governments are filing lawsuits today urging the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to adopt stronger energy efficiency standards for residential furnaces and boilers.
The public interest law firm Earthjustice is filing suit on behalf of Natural Resources [...]
January 12, 2008 – 4:24 am
Earth Justice
Coal-generated power is one of the largest sources of global warming gasses in the United States. But it’s not just emissions from coal-fired plants that pose a problem; coal creates cradle-to-grave environmental impacts—from mountaintop removal mining to toxic ash waste.
In Appalachia, whole communities and ecosystems are destroyed when coal is extracted by blowing up [...]
January 2, 2008 – 1:56 am
Climate Crisis Coalition
Commentary Bill McKibben, The Washington Post, December 28, 2007.
“This month may have been the most important yet in the two-decade history of the fight against global warming. Al Gore got his Nobel in Stockholm; international negotiators made real progress on a treaty in Bali; and in Washington, Congress actually worked up [...]
December 23, 2007 – 6:49 am
EarthJustice
Conservation groups ask Kansas Supreme Court to deny coal power scheme
December 19, 2007
The current Sunflower Electric Power Plant, Holcomb, Kansas. A permit for two additional coal-fired generators was denied by Kansas state authorities.
Photo: DOE
Topeka, KA — America’s energy policy is at stake in Kansas, conservation groups declared today, as they challenged attempts to get state [...]
December 6, 2007 – 9:43 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2007) — European Union countries likely require an old ally — Mother Nature and her forests — to meet an ambitious post-Kyoto goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 20% by 2020, according to new research.
The University of Helsinki study says that despite rising population and affluence, the EU can meet its obligations [...]
November 28, 2007 – 4:48 am
Taige Li
26 November 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
[BEIJING] China launched its first national environmental health action plan to enable research in the environment and health sectors to be combined more effectively.
The Ministry of Health and the State Environmental Protection Administration announced the plan at the third National Environment Health Forum in Beijing this week (21 November).
The plan addresses [...]
November 27, 2007 – 3:33 am
TreeHugger
On 1 January 2008, the Scarlet Letter effect will start shaming drivers of polluting vehicles in German cities which are implementing an eco-zone to reduce pollutants to below EU standards. Vehicles which pollute too much to rate at least a red sticker in the red-yellow-green system will be banned altogether. Auto clubs predicted chaos as [...]
November 13, 2007 – 4:03 am
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2007) — Emissions from coal-fired power plants may be an important source of water pollution and fish contamination, say researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
A new study found higher-than-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-recommended levels of mercury and elevated levels of selenium in channel catfish caught in a rural [...]
November 6, 2007 – 4:07 am
Push for cleaner, healthier alternatives to Dry Fork plant
November 1, 2007
EarthJustice
Sheridan, WY — Wyoming citizens concerned about the proposed Dry Fork coal-fired power plant planned for Gillette have asked the state Environmental Quality Council to make sure the plant is built using the best technology possible. As approved, the plant would be built using [...]
October 9, 2007 – 2:57 am
EarthJustice
EPA urged to reject coal plant permit because of extreme air pollutants
October 4, 2007
San Francisco, CA — The federal Environmental Protection Agency must reject or greatly restrict the proposed Desert Rock power plant because its output of greenhouse gases will increase global warming and violate the Clean Air Act, a coalition of conservation groups and [...]
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