"Protecting the Forests, and Hoping for Payback" [1]
The giant evergreen forests of the American West could play a signficant carbon-storage role as the nation "bridges" to sustainable energy.
Source: NYTimes [2], 11/30/2009
The giant evergreen forests of the American West could play a signficant carbon-storage role as the nation "bridges" to sustainable energy.
A federal agency that is supposed to protect communities from toxic threats is being accused of using bad science to falsely reassure communities, after it reversed its findings in two recent incidents.
"One of the world's largest nuclear plant suppliers has ordered its Canadian division to hermetically seal itself off from its U.S. parent, going so far as to forbid engineers at the U.S. wing from having anything to do with Canadian reactors."
As the 25th anniversary of the chemical leak in Bhopal, India, approaches, the effects are still painfully present. Thousands were killed immediately; tens or hundreds of thousands were injured in the longer term. It could happen in the U.S.
"President Obama today unveiled key details of the U.S. negotiation position headed into next month's global warming talks in Copenhagen, including a provisional greenhouse gas emissions target for 2020 "in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels" and a new itinerary that includes a personal appearance during the opening days of the U.N. conference."
The Federation of American Scientists has posted these reports online: "Fossil Fuel Resources: Terminology, Reporting, and Summary" and "Unconventional Gas Shales: Development, Technology, and Policy Issues."
The nation's first set of voluntary criteria for planning, design, construction, and maintenance of landscapes.was announced Nov. 6, 2009.
This new tool is broken out by space type (e.g., kitchen, bathroom, garage, yard), and covers a wide range of indoor and outdoor energy, toxicity, consumption, and environmental impact issues — even topics such as finding a greener mortgage.
Carbon dioxide emission volumes, trends, and sources vary substantially by state, according to a report released Nov. 12, 2009, by the advocacy group Environment America.
Results of sampling the tissue of fish caught in freshwater lakes throughout the
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[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/science/earth/29trees.html?_r=1&hpw
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/reversal-haunts-federal-health-agency
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/science/earth/30agency.html
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[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bhopal-gas-survivors-mark-25-years-agony
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