The whole thing is happening without flashy ad campaigns, so it’s not surprising if you’ve never heard of municipal solar financing. But the financing program, also known as property tax financing, is a veritable underground solar revolution.
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Over the past 3 years, Ashoka fellows Yuyun Ismawati from Bali Fokus (Indonesia), Ignace Schops from Regionaal Landschap Kempen en Maasland (Belgium), and Orri Vigfusson from the North Atlantic Salmon Fund (Iceland) have won the Goldman Environmental Prize for innovative environmental work.
Haiti continues to claim the dubious honour of being ranked as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with 80% of this Caribbean nation’s population living under the poverty line and 54% in abject poverty. Haiti’s sorrowful rank as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world has been directly attributed to the degradation of Haiti’s natural environment (less than 1.5% of its original tree cover remains intact) as well as a lack of governance structures, underinvestment in social capital, obstacles to private investment, and a spiraling “poverty trap“. Read the rest of this entry »
Before we get to said blogger I’d like to link this passage from Wikipedia, offering a very small taste of Monsanto’s activity in the US (I have linked to much more information after the cartoon).
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NYPD’s Blue just got a little greener by adding 40 new Nissan Altima Hybrids to their fleet.
Announced by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, the Altimas are the first set of of alternative-fuel patrol cars to help with the goals set by PlaNYC. Announced back in 2006, PlaNYC aims to reduce Manhattan’s greenhouse gas emissions by 30% come 2017.
“These new patrol cars will help fulfill the PlaNYC goal of reducing City government’s carbon footprint,” said Mayor Bloomberg.
The hybrids will be divvied amongst precincts with large coverage areas and smaller precincts prone to heavy stop-n-go traffic: essentially where their fuel efficiency provides the greatest economic and environmental impact. Read the rest of this entry »
Characterizing it as “legally defective”, Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar took dead aim at the last minute attempt by the Bush administration allowing mining operations to fill valley streams with waste rock from “mountaintop removal” methods if it proved “too expensive” to find an alternative.
Termed the “stream buffer zone,” the Bush administration ruling would reverse an earlier 1983 regulation that prohibited the dumping of mining waste from mountaintop removal operations within 100 feet of a stream, whether seasonal or perennial.
A federal appeals court today rejected Bush administration plans to expand offshore drilling in Alaska. The three-judge panel agreed with environmentalists, saying the Bush-era Department of Interior’s plan to open drilling in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort Seas failed to consider impacts on marine life and the environment.
The court has ordered the Interior Department, now run by Ken Salazar, to conduct a proper analysis of environmental impacts and risks before moving ahead with any plans for offshore drilling in these sensitive areas. The Chukchi and Beaufort Seas are home to approximately one-tenth of the world’s total polar bear population, along with walruses, seals, and whales.
Hey Businesses! If you want to make your opinions known about the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal for greenhouse gas reporting, you will have the chance to do it publicly. The EPA is holding public hearings April 6 and 7 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The hearings will be held at EPA Potomac Yard South Conference Center, 2777 Crystal Drive, Room S-1204, Arlington, VA 22202. You can also check it out via the internets.
“First-year compliance with the rule would cost the private sector $160 million, EPA estimates, with subsequent years costing $127 million,” says Environmental Leader.
There is more information here.
The EPA proposal may be a way to regulate emissions like classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant, under the Clean Air Act. EPA has proposed that suppliers of fossil fuels or industrial greenhouse gases, manufacturers of vehicles and engines, and facilities that emit 25,000 metric tons or more per year of GHG emissions submit annual reports to EPA.
The proposed rule would cover the following gases:
Source [Environmental Leader]
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