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• Chinese government sets ambitious battery production goals

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 708
  Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Manufacturing/Plants , China 2009 BYD F3DM - Click above for high-res image gallery New regulations for the production of batteries, both nickel-hydrogen and lithium-ion, have been submitted to Chinas State Council, according to Wang Shulin, a National Development and Reform ...
  22 hours ago

• Poet, seeking patronage

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 564
  Jeff Broin knows his way around a corn field. The 44-year-old CEO of Poet , which is the largest ethanol producer in the world, grew up in Minnesota on a family farm. He lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Poet’s 26 ethanol plants are scattered across the midwest. Jeff Broin Broin also knows his way around ...
  2 days ago

• Raw Sewage Anyone?

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 127
  by Eileen Weber When we think of runoff, we look at the agricultural runoff from farm animals and how it pollutes our waterways with manure and chemicals. But what we often forget is the human waste that ends up polluting...
  3 days ago

• California Approves TV Efficiency Rules

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 908
  California regulators voted on Wednesday to impose the nations first energy efficiency rules on televisions, requiring that their electricity consumption be cut nearly in half by 2013.
  1 week ago

• California Approves TV Efficiency Rules

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 739
  California regulators voted on Wednesday to impose the nations first energy efficiency rules on televisions, requiring that their electricity consumption be cut nearly in half by 2013.
  1 week ago

• NRDC Ad in Politico: The U.S. Chamber Needs to Get its Story Straight on Climate Legislastion

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 555
  Pete Altman : The US Chamber seems to be going to great lengths these days persuade Congress that it really wants to help pass climate legislation. But a very different message is coming through its blogs, tweets and unscripted comments. We think everyone should know what else the US Chamber is saying, so we have ...
  1 week ago

• An Inside Job part II. The Water Wheel.

  
  California Greening — Authority: 427
  In every political campaign that I have observed since going to a neighbors house to watch the 1956 re-nomination of Adlai Stevenson on a grainy black and white television, I have noted the manner in which every candidate exploits their experience as the major criteria for selection. We all recently recently listened ...
  2 weeks ago

• NRDC’s Frances Beinecke: Act now on climate!

  
  Marc Gunther — Authority: 564
  Just last week, Frances Beinecke , the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council , gave a speech to a Chicago business audience and the first question went something like this: I read the Wall Street Journal, I still don’t believe in climate science and I want to hear the full  story. Beinecke’s new ...
  2 weeks ago

• An inside job

  
  California Greening — Authority: 427
  It is very difficult to work on a project, especially a legislative effort, from the outside. Many hours and much more money are required to get enough people to become passionate enough about any issue to indirectly influence that legislation. It is even more difficult when the issue is California Water with a ...
  2 weeks ago

• EXTREME ACTIVISTS TAKE THE REINS AT EPA, BY: ALEX A. AVERY AND DENNIS T. AVERY

  
  Center for Global Food Issues — Authority: 108
  The Environmental Protection Agency, in a George Orwellian move, has just announced that it has suddenly decided to put the herbicide atrazine through yet another regulatory wringer, despite having just completed a comprehensive, multi-year regulatory review of the safety of atrazine begun in 1994. Only three months ...
  2 weeks ago

• Building for Success on International Global Warming Cooperation in Copenhagen

  
  Global Warming is Real — Authority: 470
  The last round of global warming negotiations before the Copenhagen meeting begins wrapped up last Friday in Barcelona.  Much of the actual negotiations were focused on getting the negotiating text and the underlying details contained in the text into better shape.  But there were also important discussions for what ...
  2 weeks ago

• NEPA, Preliminary Injunctions, and Animals

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 127
  David Cassuto A few days ago, I and a few colleagues from Pace and several other American law schools met at Shanghai Jiao Tong  University School of Law with a number of Chinese academics and members of the Chinese Ministry of Environment.  We were there because the Chinese government wanted our input as it ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clean Energy Could Create 850,000 New Jobs

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 666
        With more than 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs lost since the beginning of this recession in December 2007, a new report says developing a clean energy economy in the United States could create some 850,000 new manufacturing jobs. The report , “Building the Clean Energy Assembly Line: How ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pet Flea Collar Toxins Harmful to Children

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 160
  Filed under: Dogs , Cats , Small Pets , Pet Health , Grooming Flickr/ Melody.loves.you Could your pets flea collar be harming you or your child? As of September 2010, one toxin currently being used in flea collars will be discontinued, reports the Portland Pet Health Examiner . Carbaryl, which is also known by its ...
  3 weeks ago

• NRDC: Wind Power - A Global Warming Solution

  
  WIND & SOLAR POWER — Authority: 127
  NRDCflix asked: The NRDC staff scientist Audrey Chang, discusses wind power as part of the solution to global warming. Learn more at www.nrdc.org / globalwarming or www.nrdc.org / energy
  3 weeks ago

• Important Green Websites to Visit

  
  Green Diva Mom — Authority: 130
  ©iStockphoto.com - Falconiaz There are some really informative, educational and entertaining green websites. Here are some diverse and important green websites you may want to check out. 1. Organic Consumers Association This site has so much information available online or you can request email alerts and you ...
  3 weeks ago

• F.T.C. Proposes New Light Bulb Label

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 739
  The Federal Trade Commission introduced a proposed new consumer label for light bulbs -- a product category that is generating a lot of confusion.
  3 weeks ago

• EPA to Set Pollution Rules for Oil- and Coal-Fired Plants

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 626
  We talk a lot about carbon emissions here at TakePart, mostly, I’d think, because they’re the main focus of a lot of efforts to curb climate change. However, carbon isn’t the only dangerous pollutant that gets pumped into the environment, and luckily, the good people at the Environmental Protection Agency ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bottled Water A $6.5-$7 Billion Industry, Tap 80 Cents To $6.40 Per 1,000 Gallons

  
  BASIL & SPICE — Authority: 136
  Jamie Hale-- Much is being made of the benefits of natural water but all water needs to be processed so that we can drink it.” --  Kevin Prior, Water and Wastewater Chemical Scientist I was watching 60 Minutes last night and Andy Rooney came on and began discussing different types of bottled water. He ...
  4 weeks ago

• CBO To Join Heritage Answering Committee’s Questions

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 772
  Several weeks ago we received a letter from Chairman Henry Waxman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee requesting information concerning our economic modeling of H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act. We quickly responded ( our answers are available here ). Several other organizations and ...
  4 weeks ago

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