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T U E S D A Y - J U N E 2 , 2 0 0 9
Trade Group Warns Against Biodegradable Plastics
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) has called for restraint in the use of degradable additives in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic packaging, raising concerns about the lack of public data in the use of degradable additives in PET packaging. The trade organization says proper testing and verification must be conducted before degradable additives are introduced into the consumer product stream.
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M O N D A Y - J U N E 1 , 2 0 0 9
Water Wars Out West: Keep What You Catch!
The West remains one of the fastest growing regions of the country, and that continues to put pressure on scarce water supplies.
So, Colorado recently made it legal for some homeowners to capture and collect the raindrops and snowflakes that fall on their own roofs. That had been considered stealing because the water would flow into a stream or aquifer, where it belonged to someone else; Utah and Washington state have similar bans.
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S U N D A Y - M A Y 3 1 , 2 0 0 9
Are cargo bikes the next big thing?
Its a sign of a bike's success when companies in the Far East start producing cut-price copies of it and thats just whats happened with the classic Dutch bakfiets design.
At this year's China International Bicycle & Motor Fair Show in Shanghai, Ningbo Nanyang Vehicle Co. displayed a complete range of carrier cycles which were difficult to tell apart from their made-in-Holland counterparts.
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T H U R S D A Y - M A Y 2 8 , 2 0 0 9
Government suspends forest road-building
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is calling for a one-year moratorium on road-building and development on about 50 million acres of remote national forests.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a directive Thursday reinstating for one year most of a Clinton-era ban against new road construction and development in national forests. The 2001 rule banned road building and logging in more than 58 million acres of remote national forests, mostly in the West.
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The bright prospect of biochar
Enthusiasts say that biochar could go a long way towards mitigating climate change and bring with it a host of ancillary benefits. But others fear it could do more harm than good. Kurt Kleiner reports.
Jim Fournier wants to help save the planet, though in a most unlikely way: by burning biomass. At the forefront of a carbon-sequestration technology that proponents say offers a rare 'win-win-win' environmental opportunity, Fournier's company Biochar Engineering in Golden, Colorado, manufactures machines that turn biomass into charcoal, or biochar.
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W E D N E S D A Y - M A Y 2 7 , 2 0 0 9
Report: Carbon pollution to grow by 40 percent
WASHINGTON - The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide seeping into the atmosphere will increase by nearly 40 percent worldwide by 2030 if ways are not found to require mandatory emission reductions, a U.S. government report said Wednesday.
The Energy Information Administration said world energy consumption is expected to grow by 44 percent over the next two decades as the global economy recovers and continues to expand. The biggest increases in energy use will come from economically developing countries such as China and India.
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Big Oil Warms to Ethanol and Biofuel Companies
JENNINGS, La. For decades, the big oil companies and the farm lobby have been fighting about ethanol, with the farmers pushing to produce more of it and the refiners arguing it was a boondoggle that would do little to solve the countrys energy problems.
So why are technicians for BP, the giant oil company, now working at an experimental ethanol plant in this old Louisiana oil town, helping to make it more efficient?
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Face-Off Over 'Fracking': Water Battle Brews On Hill
Environmentalists and the natural gas industry are getting ready for a battle in Congress over something known as "hydraulic fracturing."
"Fracking," as the industry calls it, involves injecting a million gallons or more of water and chemicals deep underground to pry out gas that's locked away in tight spaces.
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Stimulus Money Put To Work At Superfund Sites
A hundred years ago, the Welsbach and General Gas Mantle factories kept the lights on across the country by making a popular precursor to the light bulb called a mantle, but they left a toxic, radioactive legacy behind in Camden and Gloucester City, N.J.
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T U E S D A Y - M A Y 2 6 , 2 0 0 9
Adaptation Emerges As Key Part Of Any Climate Change Plan
Adaptation. For many in the climate change community, the word has had a traitorous ring, implying that its proponents were giving up on the notion that the world might mitigate the threat of global warming by significantly reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. Adaptation was for quitters.
Not anymore.
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