Will Appliance Rebates Match Cash for Clunkers?
States and territories are each designing and running their own unique rebate program, with funding from the US DOE for development and implementation.
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"Hackers Attacked Europe Carbon Registries: Report"
"FRANKFURT -- Carbon trading registries in half of Europe have been hit by hackers who broke security systems to steal emissions rights certificates from companies last week to sell them on, the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing officials."
Source: Reuters, 02/03/2010
"At REI, Is 'Carbon-Neutral' A Smoke Screen?"
"What do Nike, REI, the Vancouver Olympics, and the Washington state government have in common? They've all promised to eliminate their impact on the climate by going "carbon–neutral." REI aims to have zero output of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide by the year 2020. But since REI set the zero–impact goal, its emissions have been heading rapidly in the opposite direction."
Source: KUOW, 02/03/2010
Gas Drilling in Appalachia: What Do You Do With the Wastewater?
"A drilling technique that is beginning to unlock staggering quantities of natural gas underneath Appalachia also yields a troubling byproduct: powerfully briny wastewater that can kill fish and give tap water a foul taste and odor."
Source: AP, 02/03/2010
"Industry, Enviro Groups Try to Sway EPA on Smog Standard"
"ARLINGTON, Va. -- Industry and environmental groups sparred at a public hearing here today over U.S. EPA's planned reconsideration of the George W. Bush administration's 2008 smog standard."
Source: Greenwire, 02/03/2010
"Biomonitoring Surge Faces Slowdown"
CDC has increased 10-fold the number of contaminants it tracks in people since starting its biomonitoring program in 2001. But the agency is hitting limits that likely will slow future growth, and no one else is picking up the slack, leaving us ignorant for years to come about more than 99% of the possible toxics in our bodies.
Source: EHP, 02/03/2010
"EPA Faces Lawsuits Over Pesticide Harms, Soot"
"The nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity has put the U.S. EPA on notice that it intends to sue the agency for failing to adequately evaluate and regulate nearly 400 pesticides harmful to hundreds of endangered species across the country as well as human beings."
Source: ENS, 02/03/2010
"Interior Secretary Sees Little Hope for Consensus on Wind Farm"
"Weighing the future of a controversial wind farm project, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar toured Nantucket Sound on a Coast Guard cutter Tuesday, surveying the 24-square-mile area where the proposed project would loom."
Source: NYTimes, 02/03/2010
"Green Groups Oppose Obama On Nuclear Power"
Environmental groups fear President Obama's plan to guarantee loans for private power companies to build nuclear plants -- loans too risky for free-market lenders to touch -- would be a set-up for another corporate bailout.
Source: NPR, 02/03/2010
"Lancet Retracts Study Tying Vaccine to Autism"
"The study that first suggested a link between vaccines and autism and spurred a long-running, acrimonious debate over the safety of vaccines has been retracted by the British medical journal that published it. The withdrawal supports the scientific evidence that vaccinations don't cause autism, but isn't likely to persuade advocacy groups that believe in a link."
Source: Wall St. Journal, 02/03/2010
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