Mountains of salt are spread on snowy roads in North America every winter, despite the fact that environmentalists have been warning against it for years. Well, studies are piling up, indicating indeed that the cost may be too high.
Martin Mittelstaedt reports in the Globe and Mail about a new study of Frenchman’s Bay, a [...]
The British novelist Ian McEwan, inspired by the failure of the Copenhagen climate talks, changed the finished manuscript of his new book about a scientist working on a technology to address global warming.
The end of the book is set in summer 2009, and McEwan introduced a new scene, in the last few pages, in which [...]
Victims of Hurricane Katrina are moving to sue carbon gas-emitting multinationals for helping fuel global warming and boosting the tragic 2005 storm.
The class action suit brought by residents from southern Mississippi, which was ravaged by hurricane-force winds and driving rains during the storm, was first filed just weeks after Katrina hit in August of 2005.
The [...]
The European Union is probably the most progressive bloc of countries in the world when it comes to green policies, trumping the United States in many areas like climate legislation and restrictions on toxic chemicals.
So why is an American attorney seeking to bring lawsuits against the bloc and its member states for environmental shortcomings?
James Thornton, [...]
February 25, 2010 – 7:54 am
Who Killed the Electric Car? is a 2006 documentary by Chris Paine which explores the creation, limited commercialization, and subsequent destruction of the battery electric vehicle in the United States, especially the General Motors EV1 of the 1990s.
It uses archive footage and interviews to build a case against various characters that surrounded the creation [...]
February 23, 2010 – 8:11 am
In the Christian tradition of Lent, church-goers give up something like an everyday item for 40 days. It could be alcohol, TV, a certain food, something like that. But on Wednesday, the first day of this year’s Lent, many people chose to give carbon instead.
At the Grace Episcopal Church in Newington, Connecticut, church-goers were [...]
February 21, 2010 – 7:51 am
In its keenness to woo Republicans with nuclear-friendly policies, the Obama administration plans to hand out $54.5 billion in government-backed loans to jump-start a nuclear renaissance. On Tuesday, it announced the first beneficiary of this munificence—and apparently the best candidate it could find was a proposed plant that has been put on hold by federal [...]
February 17, 2010 – 8:03 pm
Democratic Arkansas Senator, Blanche Lincoln fell in line with Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska late last month when she cosponsored legislation to block the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Lincoln explains her reasoning on her Web site:
Heavy-handed EPA regulation, as well as the current cap and trade [...]
February 15, 2010 – 7:53 am
At this year’s winter games in Vancouver, when Olympic champions are crowned, they will be taking home more than just, gold, silver or bronze medals…
…They will be playing a part in Canada’s efforts to reduce electronic waste. And therein lies the true heroism…
Each medal was made with a tiny bit of the more than 140,000 [...]
February 10, 2010 – 10:09 am
The federal government advises throwing unused and expired medications in the trash instead of down the drain, however they may still end up in the water.
Small amounts of discarded drugs have been found in water at three landfills in the state of Maine, confirming suspicions that pharmaceuticals thrown into household trash are ending up in [...]
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