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Planned West Coast Port Expansions Would Enable Asia To Import More US Coal

Coal train. Image credit: Wikipedia US coal production is at a tipping point, leaning toward more exports to Asia. It’s just as easy to load the train with the kind of coal used to make steel or activated carbon as with the sort used to generate electricity – and Chinese demand is on the increase for both. Counting on US coal port facility development, the USA is poised to satisfy that growing demand in parallel with an ant… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Planned West Coast Port Expansions Would Enable Asia To Import More US Coal

Adapting To Extreme Weather Impacts – FEMA Flood Hazard Maps Updated, Online, & Free

FEMA Geocoded Flood Map Viewer Interface – Pennsylvania example. Image credit: FEMA This year’s devastating floods in Nashville Tennessee brought more than just ruined homes and the destruction of historically important musical instruments. The broader meaning was well expressed in a headline published by the Ten… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Big Business Can Save The Future, If Their Political Umpires Don’t Miss The Call – Again

Missed base call. Image credit: New York Magazine The lifestyle backdrop Do we agree that incremental lifestyle changes can not surmount the political obstacles posed by well-funded Think Tanks and lobbyists, by an irrational obsession with libertarian ideas, and by a broadcast media focused on creating false controversies to boost ratings? If so, read on. Big Problems require Big Solutions and Fortune Listed companies can change political culture in a matter of a few months so that solutions are forthcoming. A… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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USEPA Upgrades SO2 Air Standard For First Time In 40 Years – Asthmatics Have Much To Gain

” Figure A shows the location of the lungs and airways in the body. Figure B shows a cross-section of a normal airway. Figure C shows a cross-section of an airway during asthma symptoms. ” Caption & Image credit: National Heart Lung & Blood Institute Look past the oil globs and political waffling for a minute and you’ll find good news lurking. USEPA has upgraded the an outdated SO2 standard, which involved long term (daily) average concentration limits, to a short-term standard that better protects asthmatics, for example. By early 2013 expect enfor… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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USEPA Upgrades SO2 Air Standard For First Time In 40 Years – Asthmatics Have Much To Gain