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While companies in Massachusetts and Michigan gear up for wind production, Google and their partners are looking to the future. The Cape Wind and Lake Muskegon projects are located right on transmission cables, so they can simply plug in and start generating power. But T Boone Pickens’ “Pickens Plan“, his dream of a Texas-sized windfarm [...]
Experts in Nutrition and Public Health agree that a healthy diet should include lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. These foods have multiple health benefits because they provide dietary fiber, trace minerals, vitamins, anti-oxidants, and a wide variety of compounds that enhance vein health, reduce cancer risk, and bind dangerous toxins (just to name a [...]
Well, they’ve done it, and ahead of schedule. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has determined it is appropriate that deepwater oil and gas drilling resume, provided that operators certify compliance with all existing rules and requirements, including those that recently went into effect, and demonstrate the availability of adequate blowout containment resources… “In light [...]
It’s a great headline. But it’s not related to BP’s Gulf Oil disaster – nobody involved in the biggest single pollution incident in US history has even come close to being arrested, never mind going to jail. Nope, this headline is from Hungary, where a factory’s storage facility failed last week, sending a wave of [...]
Just days after the lease for the first offshore windfarm in the US was inked, for the Cape Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts, officials in Lake Muskegon Michigan said they were fast-tracking their own project. And while Cape Wind took nine years to meander through the approvals process, Muskegon officials say they’re going to [...]
Wind power is on the rise. Ten years in the making, the lease was signed on October 6 forCape Wind, the first wind farm on the US Continental shelf. That’s waay offshore – about 5.2 miles from the mainland shoreline, 13.8 miles from Nantucket Island and 9 miles from Martha’s Vineyard - so it shouldn’t screw up [...]
Two days ago, New Jersey’s Republican Governor, Chris Christie, cancelled the largest mass transit project in the US – a tunnel under the Hudson River into Manhattan that would double the region’s commuter rail capacity. He said there wasn’t enough money – despite billions of dollars in Federal aid that were already committed. Quite aside [...]
Writing at Salon, Andrew Leonard ponders the imponderable: Is the White House’s new acceptance of solar panels (nearly two years after the Election of Hope!) “…a welcome change of tone, prefiguring a new push on climate change and renewable energy, or yet another example of how a too-cautious administration keeps stepping on its feet”? Bill [...]
(From our sister-blog, Ecolocalizer) …Wyoming has just become the first state in the nation to enact regulations which now force petroleum companies to disclose all of the toxic compounds that they have been utilizing in a dangerous drilling technique called “fracking“, or hydraulic fracturing. Fracking is now threatening to pollute the collective water supply of [...]
(From Bill McKibbon and 350.org) Dear Friends, When we first announced the Global Work Party scheduled for this weekend, I had three worries: 1) Since so many of you had done such a good job last year–5200 events in 181 countries, what CNN called “the most widespread day of political action in the planet’s history”–I [...]
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