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

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

” 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 USEPA has upgraded the an outdated SO2 standard, which involved long term (daily) average concentration limits, to a short-term standard that better protects asthmatics, for example.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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Surprise! The BP Gulf Spill is as Big as these Nations and States …

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Introducing the Best Way Yet to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill All those vague references from newscasters about how the BP Gulf spill is as big as this US state or that US state got you yearning for a better way to visualize the spill? If It Was My Home has it. Using Google Maps and data from NASA satellites, the clever interactive map lets you build a frame of reference for the spill’s vastness … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher

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photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Top 10 Tips for Creating School and Community Fundraisers That Don’t Suck!

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Image credit: devinlynnx /Flickr Do you have the urge to run and hide when you see your child or co-worker approaching with that all too familiar order form? Does your mind automatically turn to visions of stale caramel corn moldering in the office kitchen? Or maybe you shudder at the thought of a giant footprint of the scented candles and wrapping paper sitting on your re-gifting shelf in the hall closet? As a father and the co-founder of school and community fundraising company, A Part of Something Big , I know how you feel. Cri… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Every City Needs This: The Parkbus, Direct From City To Park

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150 miles north of Toronto is the most extraordinary wilderness, Algonquin Provincial Park . If you own a car, it is an easy drive on good highways. If you don’t it is not so easy; a bus or train to Huntsville , an expensive taxi ride or hitchhike in; for camping, just like anything else, the system is easy and convenient for cars and difficult for the rest. If we are going to get people out of cars, this has to change. And it is changing; this year a new non-profit called

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Prince Charles is Having a Party and We are All Invited

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Image from start Prince Charles is having a party in September and guess what: we can all go. HRH is opening up the garden of his city house, Clarence House, in September for 12 days. Buy a ticket and you too can peer through the windows, poke around the roses and veggies, and listen to some music whilst drinking tea and meeting green celebrities. Called “a garden party to make a difference”, it’s all in support of his Start initiative, which promotes a more sustainable lifestyle. The Prince said “We are not … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Bans Workers From Sharing Photos of Animals Killed by the Oil Spill

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

BP would prefer you to see photos like this: One of the lucky pelicans, rescued from the oil spill and released in St Petersburg, Florida. Photo: US Coast Guard . This stage management/damage control is just really starting to piss me off… According to reports in Mother Jones and the Daily News BP has apparently banned o… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Can’t Stop the Massive Oil Leak – Can Hollywood?

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Photo via the First Post BP’s attempts to stop the gushing oil geyser it unleashed upon the Gulf of Mexico have only sounded like Hollywood plot contrivances: Lower a giant ‘top hat’ over the leak! Let’s go for operation: ‘top kill” to blast the thing shut. Or how about a giant ‘junk shot’ to plug it with garbage. So if BP execs’ plans to halt the oil flow were the stuff of B-movies, what would real H… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Gulf Oil Leak May Last Until Christmas!

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Photo: NASA, public domain. Worst Case Scenario (But Not So Improbable) It goes from bad to worse to ARGH… All the attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico have failed so far (even if the top kill seemed to be succeeding at first ), and even the latest attempt to cut-and-cap the well has hit a snag when a diamond-bladed saw operated by a remote-controlled underwater robot got stuck in the riser pipe. All of this is making experts … Read the full story on TreeHugger