New power plant voluntarily requests carbon dioxide limits
Tuesday, 16 February 2010 19:01
While many companies continue to fight regulations on carbon emissions, one Texas company that builds power plants around the country has requested that a carbon emissions limit be set on a new project outside of San Francisco. The company, Calpine, made the request for carbon emissions in anticipation of the Environmental Protection Agency issuing new rules limiting carbon emissions, and says that while voluntary, it is legally enforceable.
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Challenging Obama's logic and support for "clean" coal
Monday, 15 February 2010 16:15
Coal is dirty. Mountaintop removal coal mining has devastated more than 380,000 acres of forest in Appalachia alone due to coal mining.1 This is land that will never return to what it was before, mountains blasted away, and stream beds filled with toxic valley fill. Between 1985 and 2001, 724 miles of streams were buried in Appalachia. However, this environmental harm has not stopped President Obama from supporting an energy policy that would include coal, coal that would come from these devastating mining practices.
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Sustainable living: Reducing your 7-pound daily waste-stream
Monday, 15 February 2010 00:54
The average American disposes of seven pounds of garbage daily according to the National Recycling Coalition, and a lot of this comes from eating out.
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Montana students stage walkout in protest of coal lease for education funding
Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:10
Tuesday, approximately 100 students from Big Sky High School in Missoula, Montana walked out of class in protest of the Montana State Land Board's plan to lease state school-trust land for the mining of 616 million tons of coal at Otter Creek, Montana.
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FDA to change food labeling in effort to fight obesity
Tuesday, 09 February 2010 15:51
Image credit: Salon.comThe FDA has announced that it will be changing food labeling in two ways, encouraging companies to put nutrition information on the front of packaging, and adjusting serving sizes in an effort to fight obesity.
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