The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Canada, US, and Mexico) issued a report on Sept. 17, 2010, illustrating the steps 13 North American cities are taking, from small, planned efforts to reduce building energy use, to comprehensive, multi-sector adopted plans for reducing energy use.
The USGS study used data from thousands of locations to analyze trends from 1992 to 2004. You can probably find many local and regional stories as these pollutants contribute to various environmental and human health problems.
Back to lodging/transportation page. [4]
If you’re staying at the Holiday Inn at the Park, Doubletree Hotel Missoula Edgewater or the Holiday Inn Express in downtown Missoula, just pick up the hotline to your hotel in the baggage claim area for a courtesy shuttle. A cab ride is about 15 minutes and $15 (before the tip). Staying at other hotels? Check the hotel hotline phones in the baggage area or take a cab.
"The two chairmen of the president's Oil Spill Commission, which is conducting an inquiry into the April 20 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, expressed skepticism Monday about claims from BP and government officials that initial underestimation of the flow rate of the Macondo well had no impact on the response to the spill."
"Around 100 people have been arrested outside the White House while protesting against mountaintop removal mining, including NASA scientist James Hansen."
"A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published this fall -- but only after a mining industry group, represented by the Washington lobbying powerhouse Patton Boggs, finishes a pre-publication review of the study's drafts."
"A once-unthinkable day is looming on the Colorado River. Barring a sudden end to the Southwest’s 11-year drought, the distribution of the river’s dwindling bounty is likely to be reordered as early as next year because the flow of water cannot keep pace with the region’s demands."
"New efforts to measure what warming temperatures are doing to forests, streams and animals at a regional level are at the core of a strategic plan by the Fish and Wildlife Service to respond to the effects of climate change."
Asian stink bugs have invaded the East Coast, are spreading, and are getting into people's yards and houses. When disturbed, they emit an unpleasant smell.
If you are wondering why climate legislation was defeated during the 111th Congress and expanded offshore drilling won -- it may have something to do with over $500 million spend by fossil energy companies on lobbying, campaign contributions, and other forms of political influence.
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/publications/climate-change/cities-attack-climate-change-one-kilowatt-time
[2] https://www.sej.org/publications/agriculture/report-nitrogen-and-phosphorous-pollution-remains-serious-threat
[3] https://www.sej.org/getting-around-missoula
[4] https://www.sej.org/initiatives/sej-annual-conferences/AC2010-lodging-transportation
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/spill-panel-presses-bp-response-plan
[6] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/27/AR2010092706615.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/hansen-100-others-arrested-dc-mountaintop-removal-mining-protest
[8] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/james-hansen-arrested-wit_n_740887.html
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/mining-companies-get-first-look-government-diesel-cancer-study
[10] http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/09/26/diesel-dangers-mining-companies-get-first-look-at-government-ca
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/water-use-southwest-heads-day-reckoning
[12] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28mead.html?_r=1&hpw
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-wildlife-climate-change-blueprint
[14] http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/for-u-s-wildlife-a-climate-change-blueprint/?ref=energy-environment
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/stink-bugs-challenge-bed-bugs-years-worst-pest
[16] http://www.wkyc.com/news/local/news_article.aspx?storyid=150686&catid=45
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fossil-energy-interests-spent-over-500-million-2009-10-lobby
[18] http://climateprogress.org/2010/09/27/dirty-money-oil-companies-special-interest-polluters-spend-millions-to-kill-climate-bil/
[19] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[20] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4369
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4366
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4367
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4368
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4371
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4372
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4373
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4374
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=4893