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[Switchboard, from NRDC] Gulf Coast Disaster: Afternoon News Roundup, June 14 | Eric ...: in abandoning fossil fuels. "In other words, our continued dependence on fossil fuels will jeopardise our national security.

[Press Releases - RSS] X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE: "To be prepared to safeguard oceans and shores, the X PRIZE Foundation is announcing the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE to find the most effective and environmentally-safe solutions for capturing oil from all spills at the spill site, thus limiting their impacts and protecting our oceans, shores, marshes, and, importantly, the health and well-being of the people and wildlife which live and thrive in these communities."

[Switchboard, from NRDC] Legislative Watch, May 18, 2010 | Legislative Watch's Blog ...: The launch of this bill jumpstarts an intensive effort to pass comprehensive climate and energy legislation in the Senate this summer, reconcile it with the American Clean .The bill, which NRDC has endorsed, would authorize energy research and development and bolster manufacturing through both research and loan guarantee programs.

[Yale Environment 360] A Green Agenda for the President's First 100 Days by : Yale ...: In the first 100 days, Obama should announce his commitment to passing a massive, clean energy stimulus plan that will include incentives for: retrofitting homes and offices to become more energy efficient, expanding public-transit infrastructure, making the nation's electric grid smarter and capable of managing renewable power, and retooling manufacturing plants to produce high-mileage cars and other efficient goods.

[Climate Progress] Murkowski's Big Oil Bailout Bombs « Climate Progress: Now is the time for action.  Some senators who voted for Senator Murkowski’s resolution indictated that they agree, but that they want Congress, and not EPA, to adopt measures to reduce oil consumption and pollution.  Now it is incumbent upon them to join Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), John Kerry (D-MA), Joe Lieberman (D-CT), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Harry Reid (D-NV) Byrd, and others to develop and pass comprehensive clean energy legislation that provides safeguards for oil production, reduces oil use, and cuts global warming pollution from oil and coal, and invests in renewable energy, efficiency, and clean energy manufacturing. Otherwise, their rhetoric today will be as empty as the blighted beaches of the Gulf coast.

[GreenGrl] Can someone give me a website to an article on air pollution?: The World Health Organization estimates that 4.6 million people die each year from causes directly attributable to air pollution.[1] Many of these mortalities are attributable to indoor air pollution.[2] Worldwide more deaths per year are linked to air pollution than to automobile accidents.[3] Research published in 2005 suggests that 310,000 Europeans die from air pollution annually. Direct causes of air pollution related deaths include aggravated asthma, bronchitis, emphysema, lung and heart diseases, and respiratory allergies.

[Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog] Environmental Law and Climate Change Law Newsletter, July 12, 2010 ...: A federal proposal to reduce ozone and soot pollution from power plants in 31 states starting in 2012 will allow for only limited interstate trading of emission allowances, a tactic spurring praise from air regulators and concern from the utility industry Tuesday. The US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the Transport Rule to replace the current Clean Air Interstate Rule as a means of reducing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from coal-fired power plants in upwind states that affect the air quality of downwind states and their ability to meet national clean air standards.

[Climate Progress] Energy and Global Warming News for August 3rd: Fossil fuel ...: After it caught wind of the effort last month, it fired off a letter to local chamber leaders, discouraging them from joining CICE, which it claimed was “established by the Natural Resources Defense Council.” The letter, written by US Chamber board member Winthrop Hallett, the president of Alabama’s Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce, states that the new group’s “indirect purpose appears to be undermining the U.S. Chamber’s and the business community’s leadership on”

[TEDxOilSpill] X PRIZE Foundation Announces Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE ...: The goal of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE is to inspire entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists worldwide to develop innovative, rapidly deployable, and highly efficient methods of capturing crude oil from the ocean surface. In making the announcement, the X PRIZE Foundation hopes to attract philanthropic and venture capital to support development of this important capability and provide a global platform where new technologies can be competed head-to-head, and the best approaches demonstrated, to prepare for future catastrophes.

[Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog] Environmental Law and Climate Change Law Newsletter, July 26, 2010 ...: that led to its withdrawal of lawsuits against EPA  and CARB  over “guidance” or shutdown strategies issued by EPA for trucks using SCR.  Navistar is the only U.S. truck manufacturer that has chosen not to use the SCR technology to meet the new emissions rules, instead employing what it calls “Advanced EGR.” In the public notice announcing the workshop, CARB pointed out that it had already “approved 2010 and 2011 model year heavy-duty diesel engines with SCR”¦ However, for future vehicles seeking certification, [CARB] expects manufacturers to do a better job of assuring that vehicles are not allowed to operate out of compliance for significant periods of time.”  With the EPA also in attendance, Navistar presented test data that showed three trucks with SCR systems were able “to operate effectively” without the diesel emissions fluid (DEF) needed to control the regulated NOx emissions, increasing NOx emissions “ as much as 10 times higher or more than when [DEF] is present.”  The test was conducted with two long-haul tractors and a heavy-duty pickup by EnSIGHT, an independent consulting firm hired by Navistar.

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