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Every Home will be audited..make a noise or bend over

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:53:47 GMT

clipped by: leevardi

Every Home Will Be Audited If Cap And Trade Passes: Make Some Noise Or Bend Over

On Monday, the Senate will begin debate on the Democrap’s horrifying Cap and Trade bill, the one that even environmentalists hate because it won’t reduce pollution. What it will do, however, is create an army of energy nazis who will perform an “energy audit” on every home in America. If you don’t pass the audit…fines ($2000 for the first violation) and possible legal charges await you. If you don’t pass the audit, you can’t sell your home…which the Census bureau has already, or will soon, GPS the coordinates of. (Section 202 of the House bill.) Atlas is Shrugging hard.

Puffins to be fitted with GPS

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:37:25 GMT

clipped by: drgreenfingers

Clip Source: www.ananova.com

Puffins to be fitted with GPS

Puffins are to be fitted with satellite transmitters for the first time in an effort to understand a worrying decline in their numbers in the last five years.

Scientists are to fit tiny global positioning system (GPS) devices to the sea birds' legs to work out what is happening to them, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Possible reasons include climate change causing sand eels, puffins' main food source, to move north. Pollution can also affect numbers and competition from other species such as gulls.

Puffins on the Farne Islands will be fitted with GPS this summer. When the data is collected from returning puffins the following year it will provide clues to the kind of feeding grounds the birds have been to and the threats they are exposed to.

David Steel, National Trust Head Warden on the Farne Islands, said puffins were breeding successfully so it was essential to find out what could be causing the death of the birds out at sea.

Ultrasound Cleans Polluted Water...and makes Catfish TASTIER

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:41:54 GMT

clipped by: leevardi

Clip Source: cleantechnica.com

Ultrasound Cleans Polluted Water, Makes Catfish Tastier

Catfish aren’t the only happy campers when it comes to the ultrasound treatment. Ultrasound can also remove mercury from sediment, and it could help get rid of pharmaceutical pollution in water supplies. Choosing Ibuprofen as a test case, an international team of ultrasonics researchers based in Switzerland demonstrated that a two-hour ultrasound treatment eliminated 98% of the drug.

Researchers at Ohio State University have found that ultrasound could remove one roadblock to the use of ceramic filters, which are being developed as an alternative to chemical water supply treatment. Composed of tiny channels separated by membrane, ceramic filters are fine enough to catch bacteria and viruses, but they eventually become clogged and need to be cleaned. Ultrasound could keep ceramic water filters clean while they are in operation, eliminating the expense and complications of off-line cleaning.

E.P.A. Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:29:38 GMT

clipped by: rmowery
clipper's remarks: I am actually surprised that Pennsylvania did not have more on the list. Coal burning and the ash are such terrible pollutants. If it weren't for all the lobbying firms out there, it might be feasible to shut down 85% of them. The pollution they cause is terrible. We need to find better methods and stop letting those with the $$$ tell us that coal is a clean and renewable energy, since it is not. It is like oil, something we are killing the planet earth extracting from the ground and poluuting our air and water.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

E.P.A. Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps

The Environmental Protection Agency has released a list of 44 “high hazard potential” coal ash waste dumps across the country. The “high hazard” rating applied to sites where a dam failure would most likely result in a loss of human life, the environmental agency advisory said, but did not assess the structural integrity of the dam or its likelihood of failure.

The list, released late on Monday, was compiled as part of the agency’s inventory of coal ash sites after more than a billion gallons of ash broke through a dam at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant west of Knoxville last December. An engineering analysis of the failure, released last week, cited design problems like the height of the ash, among other factors.

Tags: ash, coal, coal ash, energy, epa, pollution

Using Free Wind Power

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:42:53 GMT

clipped by: krys21
clipper's remarks: Using wind power along with solar power and creating your own energy.

Clip Source: use-free-wind-power.blogspot.com

How does one use free wind power? Wind power is when the energy of the wind is converted to electricity, using wind turbines. The wind is free so harnessing its energy and using it to help power your home means free energy for you!

There is concern about global warming. Some say it's not real and others say it most certainly is. But the truth is, never before in the history of man have we put so many pollutants into the air as we have in the past century. Environmental changes don't take place overnight and I believe now we are now beginning to see exactly what kind impact pollution is having on our environment.

How can I use free wind power?

Tags: wind power, solar power, save money

Historic climate bill passes House – but what will the Senate do?

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:32:20 GMT

clipped by: brightlight4

Clip Source: secure.oxfamamerica.org

Historic climate bill passes House – but what will the Senate do?

Now that the historic climate bill has passed through the House of Representatives, the fight turns to the U.S. Senate, where we're working to defend the bill and strengthen provisions that help poor people adapt to climate change.

These vulnerable populations didn't create the climate crisis, but they're hit hardest by the consequences of our pollution: floods, droughts, debilitating storms, crop loss, and disease.

Don't let the big polluters undermine our progress – fill out the fields below to tell your senators to preserve funding for vulnerable communities in the climate bill.

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Cap & Trade passes...but just barely.

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:16:42 GMT

clipped by: kris_tea
clipper's remarks: I proudly say that my Rep. voted against.

Clip Source: www.congress.org

Cap and trade

On Passage
06/26/2009
House Roll Call No. 477

111th Congress, 1st Session

Passed: 219-212 (see complete tally)

The House passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which aims to reduce greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change through a cap and trade system of pollution credits.

Votes For :

219

Votes Against :

212

Not Voting :

Bills that will permanently change Amercia

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:12:40 GMT

clipped by: cheapogroovo
clipper's remarks: The first 2 make crimes out of hurting other people's feelings

The clean water bill lets government regulate anything from a pool to a pond to a water harvesting system on private property!

Clip Source: www.opencongress.org

Text of S.909 as Introduced in Senate

Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Clip Source: www.opencongress.org

Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to cyberbullying.

Clip Source: www.opencongress.org

Text of S.787 as Introduced in Senate

Clean Water Restoration Act

A bill to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to clarify the jurisdiction of the United States over waters of the United States.

Tags: congress, government, usa, laws, bills

Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:27:51 GMT

clipped by: Normn8or
clipper's remarks:
SEND THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

Obama admits that a Cap and Trade program will cause consumer electricity rates to skyrocket. Cap and Trade is nothing more than government control over private energy production and use via regulation of the life supporting, essential trace gas in our atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is Not Pollution (Popular Technology)
http://www.populartechnology.net/2008...

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is not pollution and Global Warming has nothing to do with pollution. The average person has been misled and is confused about what the current Global Warming debate is about, greenhouse gases. None of which has anything to do with air pollution. People are confusing Smog, Carbon Monoxide (CO) and the pollutants in car exhaust with the life supporting, essential trace gas in our atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2). Pollution is already regulated under the Clean Air Act and regulating Carbon Dioxide (CO2) will do absolutely nothing to make the ai

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Obama: "Cap & Trade Will Cause Electricity Rates To Skyrocket"

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Obama admits that a Cap and Trade program will cause consumer electricity rates to skyrocket. Cap and Trade is nothing more than government control over private energy production and use via regulation of the life supporting, essential trace gas in our atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Econ...

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch...

http://prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12357...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.ph...

Tags: energy, cap and trade

Obama Warns Against Trade Penalties in Energy Bill

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:34:35 GMT

clipped by: tweezer
clipper's remarks: NO BEANS FOR YOU TODAY

Clip Source: nytimes.com

President Obama on Sunday spoke out against a provision in the energy bill that would impose trade penalties on countries that do not accept global-warming pollution limits.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The passage of the House bill on Friday night was an important, if tentative, victory for the new president, becoming the first time either chamber of Congress had approved a mandatory ceiling on the gases linked to global warming.

He said the House bill was a “comprehensive approach” that included a cap-and-trade program to limit greenhouse gas emissions, incentives for new energy efficiency measures and support for wind and solar energy as well as nuclear power and so-called clean coal technology.

Overconsumption? Ecological Debt?

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:18:43 GMT

clipped by: disenchantedcitizen
clipper's remarks: We are literally eating ourselves out of house and home. World Wildlife Fund presented this write up to show how the world’s current consumption habit is leading towards ecological collapse.

Can this trend be changed? Yes. We can all do our part by living within our means. It's not about depriving ourselves but practicing responsible consumption.

Steps to take to reduce our impact: http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/reduce_your_debt/

Clip Source: www.panda.org

Most of us are living in countries that cannot support our demands.

So we import our food and our power, and export our pollution and our environmental problems.

How do we see this in our everyday lives? How does it impact us?

You can already see some subtle signs in your supermarket.

Take a look at where certain types of food come from. The growing variety of countries that you now see on food packaging is a subtle indicator that our demands and desires can sometimes go far beyond our borders.

Our need for exotic foods and goods, out-of-season fruit all-year-round, or cheaper chicken...

our demand for beef, and preferably cheap beef, has meant that rainforests have been cleared and drylands (places like savannahs) have been irrigated so that we can feed this consumption [this is ecological debt

The size of your favourite fish on offer in your supermarket is getting smaller, and some seafood that in the past was plentiful is now scarce and expensive, like cod and bluefin tuna

Capping Our Economy & Trading Our Jobs To China&Co.

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:18:09 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: 219-212
HOUSE PASSES 'GLOBAL WARMING' LEGISLATION...
'BILL OF THE CENTURY' VOTED ON UNREAD...
Boehner Tried 'Filibuster'...

300 PAGE DUMP AT 3AM-- REPUBLICANS CRY FOUL...

One of the biggest compromises involved the near total elimination of an administration plan to sell pollution permits and raise more than $600 billion over a decade " money to finance continuation of a middle class tax cut. About 85 percent of the permits are to be given away rather than sold in a ceoncession to energy companies and their allies in the House " and even that is uncertain to survive in the Senate.

The final bill also contained concessions to satisfy farm-state lawmakers, ethanol producers, hydroelectric advocates, the nuclear industry and others, some of them so late that they were not made public until 3 a.m. on Friday.

Supporters and opponents agreed the result would be higher energy costs but disagreed vigorously on the impact on consumers.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Obama lobbied recalcitrant Democrats by phone from the White House as the debate unfolded across several hours, and Al Gore posted a statement on his Web site saying the measure represents "an essential first step towards solving the climate crisis." The former vice president won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work drawing attention to the destructive potential of global warming.

The vote was 219-212, capping months of negotiations and days of intense bargaining among Democrats. Republicans were overwhelmingly against the measure, arguing it would destroy jobs in the midst of a recession while burdening consumers with a new tax

But Rep. John Boehner, the House Republican leader, used an extraordinary one-hour speech shortly before the final vote to warn of unintended consequences in what he said was a "defining bill." He called it a "bureaucratic nightmare" that would cost jobs, depress real estate prices and put the government into parts of the economy where it now has no role.

Tags: cap and tax, jobs, passed 219-212, pelosi

The Pacific isn’t the only ocean collecting plastic trash

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:57:11 GMT

clipped by: JICWyllie

Clip Source: features.csmonitor.com

New research shows that plastic has collected in a region of the Atlantic as well, held hostage by converging currents, called gyres, to form a swirling “plastic soup.” And those fragments of plastic could also be present at the other three large gyres in the world’s oceans, says Kara Lavender Law, a member of the oceanography faculty at the Sea Education Association (SEA) in Woods Hole, Mass., which conducted the study.

Because the plastic has broken down into tiny pieces, it is virtually impossible to recover, meaning that it has essentially become a permanent part of the ecosystem. The full impact of its presence there – what happens if fish and other marine animals eat the plastic, which attracts toxins that could enter the food chain – is still unclear.

high concentration of plastic fragments centered about 30 degrees north latitude (in the western North Atlantic),

The plastic floating in the ocean comes mostly from land.

the world produces 225 million tons of plastic every year.

Tags: 1-pollution, 2-increase, 2-record, 3-reported, 3-research, 4-atlanric

[Science?] Obama urges passage of "historic" climate change bill

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:54:28 GMT

clipped by: Laxon
clipper's remarks: Interesting, so far, and including this, I have not seen anything epic from the Obama administration.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, urged on by President Barack Obama, announced progress on Tuesday toward quick passage of legislation to fight global warming by reducing industrial emissions of carbon dioxide.

At a midday White House press conference, Obama said the "historic" climate change bill moving through the House would "transform the way we produce and use energy in America."

With incentives to encourage utilities, manufacturers and other companies to switch from higher-polluting oil and coal to cleaner energy alternatives, Obama said the legislation would spark a "transformation that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and confront the carbon pollution that threatens our planet."

Hours after Obama's remarks, House Democrats announced they had reached a deal on difficult agriculture issues in the legislation, clearing the way for a vote and probable passage in the chamber this week.

Tags: reclip, obama

A Must Read!

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:32:45 GMT

clipped by: echeryl
clipper's remarks: For full article go to the "Clipped From" at the top.

Clip Source: www.ewg.org

The Chemical Body Burden of Environmental Justice Leaders

An unprecedented two-year study commissioned by the Environmental Working Group and conducted by four independent research laboratories in the United States, Canada and the Netherlands has documented up to 48¹ toxic chemicals in the blood of five minority women leaders in the environmental justice movement.

he women leaders, from New Orleans, Green Bay, Corpus Christi and Oakland, have spent years deeply engaged in battles to rid their communities of air and water pollution from local manufacturing plants, hazardous waste dumps, oil refineries and conventional agriculture.