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Saturday, June 19, 2010

Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world
Everyone gathered for the town hall meeting had been repeatedly instructed to show civility to the gentlemen from BP and the federal government. These fine folks had made time in their busy schedules to come to a high school gymnasium on a Tuesday night in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, one of many ... Continued...

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Solar energy park coming to Dover
A statewide partnership - comprised of the City of Dover, Delmarva Power, Delaware Municipal Electric Corporation (DEMEC), Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility (SEU) and LS Power will lead to the construction of one of the Mid-Atlantic region's largest solar power plants and the first on the Delmarva... Continued...

Thursday, June 3, 2010

DDG survey on antibiotic residue not finished
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2010 Nationwide Survey of Distillers Grains for Antibiotics Residues is roughly half way finished. In the fall of 2009 the FDA began the survey to track and test the residues of antibiotics such as virginiamcyin, penicillin and erythromycin, all used to contro... Continued...

DDG survey on antibiotic residue not finished
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2010 Nationwide Survey of Distillers Grains for Antibiotics Residues is roughly half way finished. In the fall of 2009 the FDA began the survey to track and test the residues of antibiotics such as virginiamcyin, penicillin and erythromycin, all used to contro... Continued...

Monday, April 26, 2010

Appeals Court Upholds Environmental Justice in Richmond
Environmental Impact Report for refinery expansion ruled inadequate Richmond, April 26, 2010 - In an unprecedented victory for the community, the California State Court of Appeals has upheld the majority of findings in a lower court decision that the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the ... Continued...

Appeals Court Upholds Environmental Justice in Richmond
Environmental Impact Report for refinery expansion ruled inadequate Richmond, April 26, 2010 - In an unprecedented victory for the community, the California State Court of Appeals has upheld the majority of findings in a lower court decision that the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the ... Continued...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
Cochabamba, Bolivia It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to make his main point: to fight cl... Continued...

A New Climate Movement in Bolivia
Cochabamba, Bolivia It was 11 am and Evo Morales had turned a football stadium into a giant classroom, marshaling an array of props: paper plates, plastic cups, disposable raincoats, handcrafted gourds, wooden plates and multicolored ponchos. All came into play to make his main point: to fight cl... Continued...

Monday, April 19, 2010

Bolivian UN Ambassador Pablo Solon on the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth
Today marks the start of the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth here in Tiquipaya. Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the gathering to give the poor and the Global South an opportunity to respond to the failed climate talks in Copenhagen. We are joined now by P... Continued...

Bolivian UN Ambassador Pablo Solon on the World Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth
Today marks the start of the World Peoples' Summit on Climate Change and Rights of Mother Earth here in Tiquipaya. Bolivian President Evo Morales called for the gathering to give the poor and the Global South an opportunity to respond to the failed climate talks in Copenhagen. We are joined now by P... Continued...

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice
Rafael Quispe is gearing up for his trip. He packs a small leather bag, puts on his black poncho, an alpaca scarf sporting the rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous flag and his black hat. "This will be an important gathering, a very important gathering. It is about saving our Mother Earth, ... Continued...

Bolivia climate change talks to give poor a voice
Rafael Quispe is gearing up for his trip. He packs a small leather bag, puts on his black poncho, an alpaca scarf sporting the rainbow-coloured, chequered Andean indigenous flag and his black hat. "This will be an important gathering, a very important gathering. It is about saving our Mother Earth, ... Continued...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Tractor could tap brush for renewable energy
Floodwood, Minn. (AP)--Steve Traeger drove the 200-horsepower, all-wheel-drive tractor into a wall of willow and alder and never flinched. Brush and small trees bent and snapped, and the BioBaler towed behind the tractor was chewing it up and packing it tightly into half-ton bales as if it were ... Continued...

Tractor could tap brush for renewable energy
Floodwood, Minn. (AP)--Steve Traeger drove the 200-horsepower, all-wheel-drive tractor into a wall of willow and alder and never flinched. Brush and small trees bent and snapped, and the BioBaler towed behind the tractor was chewing it up and packing it tightly into half-ton bales as if it were ... Continued...

Monday, March 8, 2010

Vietnam Feels the Heat of a 100-Year Drought
HANOI -- Every year, even at the peak of Vietnam's dry season, when the Red River is at its lowest, Hanoi's skilled captains manage to negotiate their flat-bottomed boats through its shallow waters. But this year, with a drought gripping the entire country and water levels at record lows, the river ... Continued...

Monday, February 22, 2010

Sue the farm bill?
The 2008 farm bill could be challenged in court on the basis that it is encouraging damage to the environment, according to an article published in the Harvard Law and Policy Review. The article lays out a legal strategy for attacking the bill under the National Environmental Policy Act, the law ... Continued...

Thursday, February 11, 2010

State and Local Governments Innovate to Cut Energy Waste
As federal policy to curb carbon emissions remains in limbo, a pack of state and local governments is experimenting with new ways to reduce energy waste. For many of them, fresh efforts to promote clean energy serve as a response to federal inaction. But there are also signs that Washington is wa... Continued...

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Campaign climate
Updated: 2/4/2010 Print E-mail del.icio.us Digg this 'AGRACRAT': Lincoln joins Republicans in supporting anti-EPA bill. WASHINGTON — A paper published by a think tank last month warned that Sen. Blanche Lincoln's ascendancy to the Agriculture Committee chairmanship was a ... Continued...

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility's Byrne talks progress on clean energy development
Watch video: http://www.eenews.net/tv/video_guide/1103 Delaware has led the way in fostering efficiency and sustainable energy development through its "Sustainable Energy Utility." How can other regions learn from Delaware's progress? During today's OnPoint, Dr. John Byrne, distinguished profess... Continued...

Friday, January 22, 2010

Senate Agriculture Committee’s 2010 Priorities
The New Year is upon us and Members of Congress are back in town ready to start back where they left off last session. But what does this mean for the Senate Agriculture Committee? We know the committee will take up the Child Nutrition Act reauthorization, there will also certainly be budget batt... Continued...