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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- Global Warming is now being documented and confirmed as a theory. Causes aside, how are humans going to react to the changes that have already occurred and will occur soon?
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
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Natural Gas has been touted as a green way to shift our economy off of petroleum, but the public is slowly realizing that things like shale gas are not such a great new revelation. Natural Gas still involves an extraction and refinement process that is comparable to petroleum.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: July 6-12
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Once again, the money and power yielded by Big Oil has trumped any concern for the environment, our nation’s natural resources and precious eco systems, countless numbers of plants and animals, as well as the safety and even lives of our fellow human beings. For just last night, the 5th District Court of Appeals has terminated any hope of the Obama administration’s 6-month moratorium of new permits and the exploratory drilling of 33 deepwater wells to allow for time to review safety protocols, discover why the Deepwater Horizon blowout happened and to develop measures to ensure this never ever happens again.
Continue Reading Playing it “Safe” With Big Oil: Deepwater Offshore Drilling Moratorium Upheld
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- Electric Cars
Toyota and Tesla Motors team up to make electric cars in a recently shut down car plant in Northern California.
Technology Review covers another advance in the development of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap – June 11-17
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The Environmental Protection Agency has created stricter standers for sulfur dioxide emissions. Through the Clean Air Act, the EPA has lowered the ceiling for acceptable levels of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere and is requiring large stationary emitters to record emissions on an hourly basis instead of a once-a-day basis. With the previous once-a-day rule, emitters could just take the daily sample during a time of low emissions and just never take readings during hours of high emissions.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: Week of May 31-June 6
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The Obama Administration recently threatened BP that if they did not invoke confidence that they have the Gulf of Mexico situation controlled soon the government will step in to clean up and stop the oil spill.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: Week of May 17-23
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- We are in the middle of a comment period for an EPA ruling on how to classify and treat Coal Ash. The two classifications to choose from are similar with one providing more protection for the environment. Previously, Coal Ash was treated as a benign waste product. Coal Ash received attention after a spill of a large amount into a residential area a couple of years ago in Tennessee. This article from Grist covers the issue and provides a link to more information about the ruling.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: May 10-16
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) is supposed to regulate toxic chemicals in the USA but has failed to do so more many reasons. The Environmental Defense Fund makes the case for updating TSCA and outlines their plan.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: May 4-May 9
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- The ongoing gushing of oil from a damaged BP oil platform has captured the attention of mainstream media. This disaster is entering its third week and is another example of the devastation of extracting hydrocarbons. Oil spills are seen as accidents and thus dismissed by many, but when they are so damaging can we really afford them?
TheWeek lays out “6 worst-case scenarios“.
Grist covers some conservative voices on the spill.
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: April 26-May 2
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GlobalWarmingisReal contributor Anders Hellum-Alexander wraps-up the climate and environmental news headlines for the past week:
- There have been many oil spills highlighted recently; a pipeline rupture in Louisiana, a rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico and a Chinese tanker crashing into the Great Barrier Reef. The Christian Science Monitor highlights oil spills, asking “Why Do So Many Spills Happen?”
Continue Reading Environmental News Wrap: April 20-25
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