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The U.S. Clean Air Act is 40! Happy Birthday!

Photo: Flickr , CC Time Flies When You’re Cleaning the Air The Clean Air Act was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 31, 1970, and so it is 40 this year. To celebrate, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking back at the past few decades to see how things have changed and what kind of impact this important piece of legislation had on air quality in the U.S. (and around the world, since there’s only one atmosphere, and many other countries follow U.S. regulations pretty closely). Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A123 Systems Opens North-America’s Largest Lithium-Ion Battery Plant (600MWh/Year)

Image: A123 Systems A Shiny New 291,000-Square-Foot Factory A123 Systems, the makers of advanced lithium-ion batteries, have just opened a new battery factory in Livonia, Michigan. They claim that “based on available data” it is the largest battery plant in North-America (some manufacturer might be keeping their capacity secret). This new facility should increase A123’s manufacturing capabilities by “up to 600MW hours per year when fully operational, contributing to the company’s plan to expand global final cell assembly capacity to more than 760MW hours annually by the end of 2011. ” That’s a lot of… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Today on Planet 100: Ryan Air CEO Lets Fly on Climate Change (Video)

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Georgia County Sues Backyard Farmer For Growing Too Many Vegetables

Screengrab from: WSBTV.com , which has the full video A backyard farmer in Clarkston, Georgia is being sued for growing too many vegetables , on the grounds that he is in violation of local zoning ordinances, even though those ordinances have since been changed. Steve Miller had been growing copious amounts of produce on his land for 15 years, selling at local farmer’s markets and giving some awa… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Video)

Image credit: StudioJOHO The BP oil spill was a classic example of how corporate greed can undermine sustainability. Nevertheless, it’s hard to ignore the fact that many of the solutions proposed here on TreeHugger—from smart grids to electric cars —will need al… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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RAN Protests Spruce Mine at EPA HQ

photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network is working to bring attention to largest ever proposed mountaintop removal site–the Spring mine in Blair, West Virginia. Activists showed up at EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C and promptly dumped 1,000 pounds of Appalachian dirt on the sidewalk. RAN’s message: “EPA: Don’t Let King Coal Dump On Appalachia.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nissan LEAF Ad Puts Global Warming Front and Center (Video)

It’s rare that an advertisement gets deemed controversial because it plays into a cliche, but that’s exactly what has happened with Nissan’s new TV ad for it’s all-electric LEAF: The spot has sent a ripple through blogosphere by featuring the (seemingly) age-old story about how polar bears are losing their habitat to a melting Arctic as a result of climate change. Many — including Climate Progress , the Huffington Post , and

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Is Immigration a Green Issue? (Video)

Image credit: Center for New Community TreeHugger is a blog about environmentalism, not racism, ethnicity or immigration. Yet from holocaust deniers at the Copenhagen climate talks to the sometimes xenophobic undertones of energy independence debate , there are times when these subjects collide. When David posted about a Yale essay that claimed

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India Cancels Third Hydropower Project on Ganges Tributary on Environmental & Religious Concerns

The Bhagirathi (left) joins with the Alaknanda (right) in Devprayag and is known as the Ganga from this point onwards. Photo: Wikipedia Good news for the River Ganga! India has cancelled a 600 MW hydropower project on the Bhagirathi River, one of the main tributaries that come together to form the sacred river, citing environmental and religious concerns. Though the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project would not have involved building… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Blow to Native Forest Logging: Major Australian Company Drops the Practice

Tasmania’s Tahune Forest Reserve. Image Credit: ctudball via Flickr In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging. Instead, the company, which is the world’s largest woodchip exporter, will turn to plantation-based products. So why has the timber giant suddenly turned over a new leaf? They’ve been under protest for years now, losing legal battles against environmental activist… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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