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Posted by geri
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Friday, 16 June 2006 |
China's growing middle class now demands cleaner air... while Beijing's bureaucrats are working furiously to balance growth with pollution.
In March, China cracked down on polluting and wasteful cars using heavy-consumption taxes against cars with the biggest engines. Tax rates for big cars are nearly seven times higher than for the smallest ones. Adding 20 percent to the cost of an SUV is steering consumers away. Also, within two years China will mandate the strictest fuel-economy standards in the world forcing manufacturers to top every other industrialized nation. (Reuters)
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Posted by geri
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Friday, 16 June 2006 |
The rains from Tropical Storm Alberto have turned out to be a blessing
to officials fighting wildfires in Florida and to farmers in Georgia
with millions of dollars of peanut and cotton crops at risk from
drought. For details on the slow rains that seeped into fields, read
the AP story here.
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Posted by geri
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Thursday, 15 June 2006 |
 The Bush Administration announced today the creation of a vast nature preserve to protect a chain of remote islands in Hawaii. The new national monument would encompass 140,000 square miles of adjacent seas and would be larger than all national parks combined — an area that would stretch from Chicago to Florida.
Environmentalists are hailing the move as historic. The archipelago is home to 7000 marine species, at least a quarter of which are found nowhere else. Funds are being raised to aid local fisherman whose livelihood is being phased out as part of the marine protection effort. (Washington Post)
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Posted by CO Dem
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
Has anyone seen Gore's movie....An Inconvenient Truth? If not, then please do so. It's powerful. And, after watching it, come back and tell us what you are going to do about global warming.
One thing I want to do is this. For the next 10 weeks I want to convince one person per day to sign up to receive all their electricity from windpower. In Colorado, you would have to get on a waiting list. The goal is to increase the waiting list by thousands in order to encourage the utilities to put up more wind turbines. |
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Read more... [One Thing You Can do About Global Warming: Sign Up for Wind Power]
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Posted by geri
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
 Once endangered in the Eastern United States, the brook trout is making a comeback. The success of conservation efforts has led to stable populations that now will be open to fishermen of a few Appalachian Mountain streams for the first time in 30 years. The brook trout is the only trout native in the East. (AP)
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