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Taiwan News03/30/09
Thirteen officials in central China have been punished after a chemical company contaminated a river with arsenic, state media reported Sunday. A local court sentenced Liu Gaili, a former environmental protection bureau official, to two years in jail, the official Xinhua News Agency cited the Shangqiu city government in Henan province as saying. The report said 12 other officials were either sacked or given administrative punishments. The officials were punished after a section of the Dasha river was found contaminated by arsenic in August last year.
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Telegraph03/29/09
Cattle produce large amounts of methane as they digest their food and then belch out most of it through their mouths. A herd of 200 cows can produce annual emissions of methane roughly equivalent in energy terms to driving a family car more than 100,000 miles (180,000km) on more than four gallons (21,400 litres) of petrol. Researchers from University College Dublin found however, by adding two per cent of fish oil to the animal's feed the amount of methane is reduced by around a fifth.
http://tinyurl.com/dcnfm9
Telegraph03/29/09
Researchers have found that dust blown south from Patagonia and deposited in the ice over 80,000 years is providing vital information about glacier activity. It is hoped the findings from the past will help scientists predict environmental changes in the future. The study, carried out by the universities of Edinburgh, Stirling and Lille, shows that the very coldest periods of the last ice age correspond with the dustiest periods in the Antarctic region's past.
http://tinyurl.com/cftwqc
Guardian03/28/09
Russia has released plans to create a dedicated military force to patrol the Arctic, where it is laying claim to billions of tonnes of hydrocarbons. Countries in the northern hemisphere are vying for control of the polar region, which is thought to contain up to a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas. The presidential security council issued a strategy document which outlined Russia's plans for defending its vast swath of polar territory up until 2020 ... Moscow's bold assertion that it will militarise the region comes as Russia, the United States, Canada, Norway and Denmark (via Greenland) lobby UN bodies to decide jurisdiction over the region.
http://tinyurl.com/c5k55v
MSNBC03/29/09
Once booed at international climate talks, the United States won sustained applause Sunday when President Barack Obama’s envoy pledged to ‘make up for lost time’ in reaching a global agreement on climate change. Todd Stern also praised efforts by countries like China to reign in their carbon emissions, but said global warming ‘requires a global response’ and that rapidly developing economies like China ‘must join together’ with the industrial world to solve the problem.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29942112/
Environmental Economicsby
Tim Haab03/27/09
Cap'n Trade, if implemented, will only be implemented in developed countries. This will raise the price of carbon intensive products produced in developed countries. This give developing countries a competitive advantage in carbon intensive production. To counter this and remain fair and to maintain competitive balance, developed countries will need to adjust prices of products for their carbon content when they enter the country.
http://tinyurl.com/c22jrx
Gristmillby
Ben Tuxworth03/28/09
With "green stimulus" all the rage this side of the Atlantic too, there's a fair amount of interest in a) how much we're going to spend and b) on what. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, savior of the world and (apparently) originator of the whole green-new-deal concept, would, you might think, be anxious to be sporting a particularly large package. Sadly, the money's already been spent -- and reprinted and spent again -- stimulating a dead horse.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2009/3/28/221027/623
Boston Globeby
Jeff Jacoby03/29/09
Thirty years ago this month, an accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania inflamed public opposition to nuclear power. The mishap — a loss of coolant that caused the reactor core to overheat — caused no known deaths or diseases, and it exposed area residents to only a negligible amount of radiation. But it fueled an antinuclear frenzy that soon brought the expansion of the industry to a halt. Dozens of planned reactors were canceled. In the years since Three Mile Island, not a single nuclear plant has been ordered and built in the United States. Yet far from being washed up, atomic power seems poised for a renaissance.
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Dallas Libertarian Examinerby
Garry Reed03/29/09
The following implementation considerations are not necessarily found in the ISO 14001 handbook — yet. But, since the non-scientific secular religionist environmentalist agenda is virtually indistinguishable from the New Age mystical spirituality agenda, which is virtually indistinguishable from the progressive socialist political agenda, it can’t be too difficult to look ahead a bit. Here are some highlights one might find from a future politically correct progressive implementation handbook, brought to you by your friendly neighborhood libertarian smartass …
http://tinyurl.com/c6673s
AlterNetby
Laurie Mazur03/28/09
Debaters on population usually take two sides: either they see it as a huge problem facing humanity, or that it’s a non-issue. They’re both wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/cpk83a
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