Without fanfare, the nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
The revamp, the first since the program began after Three Mile Island in 1979, also eliminates a requirement that local [...]
Dozens of protesters took to the streets outside of Gov. Deval L. Patrick’s Springfield office on Saturday, calling for tougher clean air rules, retirement of the Mt. Tom coal-burning power plant and for opposition to proposed biomass plants in Western Massachusetts."It’s simple &38211 clean energy does not come out of a smokestack," said Jesse Lederman, [...]
Last week’s oil industry conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Houston was supposed to be an industry confab just like any other — a series of panel discussions, light refreshments and an exchange of ideas.
It was a gathering of professionals to discuss “media and stakeholder relations” in the hydraulic fracturing [...]
Federal regulators on Wednesday cited oil company BP PLC and two other companies – Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton – for alleged safety and environmental violations stemming from last year’s rig explosion and massive Gulf oil spill.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/bp-2-other-companies-cite_n_1007949.html?ir=Green
The environmental group Sierra Club has filed suit against the University of Florida, arguing that the institution illegally withheld records related to controversial research on fertilizer use.The suit stems from a paper published in 2009 that criticized counties, such as Sarasota, for passing laws restricting fertilizer use during the summer rainy season. The paper said [...]
Nobel laureate Kenzaburo Oe urged Japan’s new prime minister on Tuesday to halt plans to restart nuclear power plants and instead abandon nuclear energy.
Oe cautioned Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda against prioritizing the economy over safety. Noda has said he will allow idled nuclear plants to resume operation when their safety is confirmed.
via Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel [...]
Koch Industries is lobbying to prevent tougher counter-terrorism standards for its facilities that use hazardous toxic chemicals. A terrorist attack or accident at Koch’s oil, chemical, paper and fertilizer plants, an iWatch News investigation revealed , could put tens of thousands of people and their homes, schools, hospitals, day care centers, factories and offices at [...]
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP sought and obtained permission to use dispersants, detergent-like compounds, to break up the 200 million gallons of Louisiana sweet crude, into tiny droplets that would mix throughout the water column, trying to lessen the immediate impact of the oil slick on fragile coastal ecosystems.
via Impact [...]
Eggs, from Simon Shane’s industry comments:
The revelation that a specific turkey plant in Arkansas operated by a prominent multinational agribusiness concern was responsible for an extensive outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg in consumers is naturally of concern to the public health community and to the specific industry involved.
There is however a corollary which may [...]
Speaking in Aspen last Thursday, former Vice President Al Gore warned of the impacts of global warming. In sharp contrast to previous appearances, however, Gore may have frothed at the mouth a bit when he told the Aspen Institute’s ‘Networks and Citizenship’ panel not to believe those that dismiss global warming.
In a passionate rant, Gore [...]
We need a new category: WTF????? -tr*
A jobs curriculum funded by the Marcellus shale industry could be in Western Pennsylvania middle schools as early as fall.
Four Marcellus shale drilling companies donated most of the $65,000 that the nonprofit Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania spent to research and develop its new Careers in Energy program, said [...]
What are they thinking???? –TR
The Obama administration and Congress insist that burning forests for electricity, a technology called biomass power incineration, is “clean and green” – right up there with solar and wind. But burning trees for power is bad economic policy, ruinous for forests and hazardous to your health.
Despite that, the U.S. Department of [...]
The NY Times unmasks the fraud of natural gas as cheap and clean:
Natural gas companies have been placing enormous bets on the wells they are drilling, saying they will deliver big profits and provide a vast new source of energy for the United States.
But the gas may not be as easy and cheap [...]
You: doing more with less. Corporate profits: Up 22 percent. The dirty secret of the jobless recovery.
via All Work and No Pay: The Great Speedup | Mother Jones.
Ored to Death – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 05/12/11 – Video Clip | Comedy Central.
The New York Times supports greater transparency rather than less to assure food animals are treated humanely in an editorial following the release of a shocking undercover video:
A supermarket shopper buying hamburger, eggs or milk has every reason, and every right, to wonder how they were produced. The answer, in industrial agriculture, is “behind closed [...]
“I have critically high levels of chemicals in my body,” 33-year-old Steven Aguinaga of Hazlehurst, Mississippi told Al Jazeera. “Yesterday I went to see another doctor to get my blood test results and the nurse said she didn’t know how I even got there.”
Aguinaga and his close friend Merrick Vallian went swimming at Fort Walton [...]
This year, 2011, is the International Year of Forests. Forests are the lungs of our planet, providing clean air and stabilizing our climate. They collect, clean and store rainfall and snow, slowly releasing it for crops and drinking water. They are open space and solace, homes for wildlife and places for us to work and [...]
More than 95 percent of consumer products marketed as “green,” including all toys surveyed, make misleading or inaccurate claims, a report to be released today says.
The number of products claiming to be green increased 73 percent since 2009, according to a survey by TerraChoice, an Ottawa-based marketing firm owned mostly by Underwriters Laboratories of Canada. [...]
This Webinar will provide journalists with:
A detailed backgrounder of the oil industry: how and where are fossil fuels extracted and why they remain the foundation of the global economy; who the main players are among oil companies, the national agencies that regulate them, and global organizations that band producing and consuming nations together. Also, a [...]
This article from WMS Software Advice is the first in a series about businesses going green. Today’s focus is on the supply chain, and the question is: can large companies distributing products to consumers across the globe actually have a positive impact on the environment?
Read more and take the survey about your green business interests:
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