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• E.P.A. Says It Expects to Raise Amount of Ethanol Allowed in Fuel Blends to 15%

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Gasoline retailers may need to carry different ethanol blends in different pumps, with a cutoff in the 2001 model year for the new fuel.
  12 hours ago

• EPA’s Decision to Delay Its Review of Ethanol Content of Gasoline

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 410
  In what is considered to be a blow to U.S. corn growers, the EPA today sent a letter to the Gen. Wesley Clark chaired trade association “Growth Energy” indicating that the EPA needed more time to complete tests on how an increase by 5% (from 10% ethanol to 15% ethanol) in ethanol content may damage engines and ...
  16 hours ago

• Pick for Environment Post Raises Some Eyebrows

  
  Going Coastal — Authority: 130
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has said he will remain vastly ambitious in his third term, and is committed to a sweeping environmental agenda.The appointment of Caswell F. Holloway IV, who since 2006 has served as chief of staff to Edward Skyler, a deputy mayor, raised the eyebrows of some policy experts and leaders of ...
  16 hours ago

• Feds punt on E15 waiver decision, want to test ethanols effect on more cars

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 690
  Filed under: Ethanol , Legislation and Policy , USA There is some ethanol in almost all of the gasoline sold in the U.S. Usually, this amount is no more than 10 percent of the total and, if its more than that, it jumps all the way to 85 percent and is sold as E85. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was ...
  16 hours ago

• EPA Recognizes Tempe for Smart Growth Achievements

  
  Phoenix Arizona Real Estate Local News and Business Directory — Authority: 527
  City of Tempe Recognized with Smart Growth Achievement AwardWASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today recognized Tempe and three other diverse communities... This is a summary of the article. For the complete article, please visit the site. Thank you ...
  17 hours ago

• Feds punt on E15 waiver decision, want to test ethanols effect on more cars

  
  Autoblog — Authority: 765
  Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal There is some ethanol in almost all of the gasoline sold in the U.S. Usually, this amount is no more than 10 percent of the total and, if its more than that, it jumps all the way to 85 percent and is sold as E85. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was supposed to ...
  19 hours ago

• 19 million new jobs

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not. —Robert F. Kennedy According to figures compiled by the America Society of Civil Engineers, a multi-year program of just repairing all existing U.S. infrastructure requires an additional $1.134 trillion dollars than ...
  19 hours ago

• President’s Environmental Youth Awards

  
  Appomattox Area News — Authority: 138
  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to recognize students who have developed their own projects at school or in their communities to promote environmental awareness and care. EPA is accepting applications for its President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) program until Dec. 31, 2009. Each year, winners ...
  20 hours ago

• EPA says not now to ethanol boost in gas

  
  Political Fix — Authority: 613
  WASHINGTON — They brought in Democratic Party muscle and a Minnesota Vikings linebacker to help make the case. Even so, the ethanol industry and the St. Louis-based National Corn Growers Association  took a jarring hit hit this morning when the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would ...
  21 hours ago

• Idaho Plant Gets Permit With CO2 Limits

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 724
  State regulators issued a permit requiring a proposed fertilizer plant to curb its emissions.
  23 hours ago

• $1,000,000 penalty for odour

  
  Saxe Environmental Law News — Authority: 125
  Fines for industrial accidents keep climbing. On November 4, 2009, BP Canada Energy Company pleaded guilty to one count of causing an odorous discharge that caused an adverse effect. BP was fined $800,000 plus the 25% victim fine surcharge. BP operates a natural gas liquid fractionation plant in Sarnia’s Chemical ...
  1 day ago

• Childhood lead exposure causes permanent brain damage

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  CHICAGO -- A study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate brain function revealed that adults who were exposed to lead as children incur permanent brain injury. The results were presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).
  1 day ago

• Pick for Environment Post Raises Some Eyebrows

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Michael R. Bloomberg chose a City Hall assistant, Caswell F. Holloway IV, raising the eyebrows of some policy experts.
  1 day ago

• Microturbine hydrid-electric car debuts at Los Angeles auto show

  
  EnergyRefuge.com Blog — Authority: 414
  Capstone Turbine CMT-380 A prototype hybrid-electric car model with microturbine technology will debut at the LA Auto Show between December 2 – 13. Capstone’s sleek designed CMT-380 is bound to appeal to the green Batmen out there. Described as a “high-performance, hybrid-electric supercar powered by ...
  1 day ago

• November 30, 2009 – Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions, Regulatory Actions and Lawsuit Filings

  
  Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog — Authority: 410
  November 30, 2009 – A summary review of environmental law settlements, decisions, regulatory actions and lawsuits filed during the past week. These were all first posted, in abbreviated form, on http://twitter.com/smtaber. If you would like to receive this update in an e-mail delivered to your inbox every Monday, ...
  1 day ago

• Green campaigner pushes for turbine noise guideline revision

  
  Electric.co.uk News — Authority: 434
  Environmental Protection UK urges the government to revise its guideline on wind turbine installation. The pro-environment group informs that the UK’s current wind turbines are too large that the noise emitted from the rotating blades could have an effect to those households living in close proximity. Experts ...
  2 days ago

• Health Physics Society recommends considering action for indoor radon below current guidelines

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Radon is a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that is produced by the radioactive decay of radium. Radium is a product of uranium decay and is found in trace amounts naturally in nearly all rocks, soils, and groundwater as well as building materials, plants, animals, and the human body.
  2 days ago

• Health Physics Society recommends considering action for indoor radon below current guidelines

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 639
  Radon is a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that is produced by the radioactive decay of radium. Radium is a product of uranium decay and is found in trace amounts naturally in nearly all rocks, soils, and groundwater as well as building materials, plants, animals, and the human body.
  2 days ago

• Time to start making huge stone heads

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 562
  Well, maybe not yet. But consider Jared Diamond’s 1997 essay in Discover : In just a few centuries, the people of Easter Island wiped out their forest, drove their plants and animals to extinction, and saw their complex society spiral into chaos and cannibalism. Are we about to follow their lead? Among the ...
  2 days ago

• Global Warming: The Multi-Trillion Dollar Piltdown Man

  
  Israpundit — Authority: 581
  University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit admits slipshod research practices by Bill Levinson We reported previously that the Environmental Protection Agency allegedly committed scientific misconduct and academic dishonesty by ordering a researcher to suppress information that did not support the Obama ...
  2 days ago

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