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Should We Rename the BP Gulf Oil Spill?

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via the US Coast Guard It’s a question that’s been raised repeatedly over the course of the 3-month ordeal in the Gulf of Mexico — what do we call it? Though most publications and journalists (this one included) have leaned towards variations on ” the BP spill ” or ” the Gulf spill ” many have been dissatisfied with this terminology from the start. This isn’t merely a “spill” after all, it’s the biggest environmental disaster in US history, with oil continuously pumped into the Gulf for months… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Continues Integrity Test for Extra 24 Hours, Possible Leak Detected [Updated]

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: BP Was It Too Good to be True? Unfortunately, it is starting to look like BP’s pressure test might not be quite as successful as it seemed in the first 48 hours. The testing has been extended for 24 hours one more time, and today’s mission #1 is to figure out if the “seep” that has been detected on the ocean floor near the well is a sign that there’s an underground leak, which would be really bad, or just a natural occurrence. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Noted Climate Scientist Stephen H. Schneider Passes

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via Stanford Today, the world lost Stephen H. Schneider, a Stanford University climate scientist who has for decades built the foundational case that the planet is warming and that action is needed–now. Schneider, 65, shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, and was a heavyweight climatologist, who Gore called, “A prolific researcher and author, co-founder of the journal Climatic Change, and a wonderful communicator, his contributions to the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Renewable Energy Installations in US & Europe Continue to Outpace Fossil Fuels

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Petter Palander via flickr Here’s a bit of good news about the slow transition away from oil and fossil fuels: Reports from UNEP and Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century show that in 2009, for the second year in a row, more new renewable energy capacity was installed than was from fossil fuels in both the United States and Europe…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Mercury Levels on the Rise in Lake Erie After Decades of Decline

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Mercury pollution might not give fish three eyes, but it does make them dangerous to eat. Image credit: True/Slant Until 1970, mercury was not classified as a dangerous compound in the United States. Before the metal was regulated, it was used extensively in industry—especially in paper making and chemical refining processes. Much of this industry lined the banks of the Great L… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ontario’s New Eco Fee Hits a Few Green Bumps

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image from jp fire Ontario, Canada’s largest province by population, has introduced a new eco fee. The Ontario government has imposed this environmental fee on manufacturers and importers of goods that produce hazardous waste. The list of items includes cleaning products, asthma inhalers, laundry detergent, paints, antifreeze, fluorescent bulbs, sun screen, potting soil, windshield washers and fire extinguishers. The cost to taxpayers and the environment of landfills filling up with garbage that can’t be recycled is huge and growing. The goal is to shift the c… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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And the Senate Climate Bill Gets Weaker Still . . .

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

As expected, the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill has grown weaker still, relinquishing an economy-wide cap on carbon emissions and instead targeting only the utility sector for greenhouse gas reductions starting in 2013. And that’s still apparently too controversial for this Senate, as the conventional wisdom says not even a utility-only bill can get enough votes to pass. So here’s what evidently remains of the mess that’s left on the table in terms of clean energy and climate legislation this year: … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Is Overpopulation a Green Myth?

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Greenpacks We hear it all the time, and have heard it since Malthus : That overpopulation is the primary cause of the world’s environmental ills. It makes sense in simple logical terms: The more people there are consuming natural resources, the greater a threat humanity poses to exhausting them. Hard to argue with that. But the issue is of course more complex — and there’s an interesting back-and-forth over at Grist on the subject to prove it. O… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Chevy Volt Battery to Have 8 Years/100,000 Miles Warranty

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: General Motors Other Automakers Will Have to At Least Match It GM seems pretty confident that the Chevy Volt’s battery pack, which is based on LG Chem cells but is packaged by GM, will last a long time without too many problems. It has just announced that it will be offering a standard warranty of 8 years or 100,000 miles (whichever comes first) covering the all of the 161 battery components. Read on for more details…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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This Can’t Be Good: BP Delays Pressure Tests and Stops Drilling Relief Well

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: BP Only Bad News on the Oil Spill Today After some good news in the past couple of days, BP is going back to what it has accustomed us to over the past few months: bad news. The first of these is that despite the fact that the cap has been fitted over the oil leak, the pressure tests to determine if the leak can be completely captured by this new ‘top hat’ will have to wait for “further analysis” (this was decided after a meeting with Steven Chu and his team of advisers). The second piece of bad n… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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