Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Google Promotes Electrical Efficiency in Computers

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Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin say that deploying correct power supplies in 100 million desktop PC's running eight hours a d...

Mag Lev Accident in Germany Kills 25

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A mag lev in Germany traveling at 125 miles an hour hit a service vehicle left on the track and 25 people were killed. This unfortunate trag...

Contaminated Ground Zero Deutsche Bank Demolition

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The demolition of the Deutsche Bank tower, dark building in middle at left, has turned into a big problem. Local EPA inspectors have questio...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

E. Coli Tainted Spinach Killing People & Spinach Market

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Cattle manure with the E. coli bacterium O157: H7 saturated in ground and surface waters is probably the source of the contamination on spi...

Bush Administration Releases Climate Change Plan

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The plan is available at " Climate Change Technology Program Strategic Plan ." The Bush administration does not need to be sensit...

Judge Blocks Bush Rule to Open Nat'l Forest Logging

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California federal Magistrate Judge Elizabeth D. Laporte has set-aside a U.S. Forest service rule that allows governors to decide which lan...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Google Starts Innovative Foundation

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Google founders, Sergey Brin & Larry E. Page have set up a philanthropy that will help the world. It is called Google.org and they inte...
Monday, September 18, 2006

A Review of the Book "Bluebells and Nuclear Energy"

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Albert B. Reynolds has an excellent educational book on nuclear power, "Bluebells and Nuclear Energy." We recommond it to anyone ...
Friday, September 15, 2006

Governor Ehrlich Wins Court Decision on PSC

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The Maryland Court of Appeals restored Public Service Commission (PSC) members to office ruling (9-14-06) that the change was unconstitution...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Interior Department Rejects Fission Waste on Reservation

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The Department of the Interior (DOI) has blocked an interim nuclear waste storage facility on the Goshute Indian Reservation, 50 miles west ...

Offshore Oil Leases & the Outer Continental Shelf

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The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is a big source of oil and gas. All offshore oil and gas wells supply approximately 25 % of the country’s ...
Monday, September 11, 2006

Support Dominion Power High Voltage Power Lines

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Dominion Virginia Power , based in Richmond, Virginia, applied to the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) on Sept 6 for permission t...

Waldorf-Astoria Facade Needs to be Cleaned

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Built in 1931 and located at 301 Park Avenue (between 49th & 50th Streets), the Waldorf-Astoria facade is a pitiful sight. It is covered...
Saturday, September 09, 2006

Huge New Chevron Oil Find in Gulf of Mexico

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Oil prices have dropped from a high of $78 per barrel to $66 today. We continually predict these drops to our expert colleagues, but they al...
Tuesday, September 05, 2006

New Book on Health, Poverty & Environment in Asia

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The new book, " Poverty, Health, and Ecosystems: Experience from Asia ," highlights the challenges faced by these poor and often r...

Nuclear Fuel Management and Disposal Act

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Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) understands the serious need to build new nuclear power plants...
Monday, September 04, 2006

Steve Irwin : In Memoriam

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Australian Naturalist and TV personality Steve Irwin died on Sunday in an unusual attack by a stingray. He is best known as "The Crocod...
Saturday, September 02, 2006

Terminating Election Year Carbon Dioxide: Great Symbolism

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California passed a carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction law for vehicles in 2002 ( AB 1493 ). Now in an election year frenzy, California Governo...
Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Center Only Environmental Group Supporting Nuclear Power

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 Indian Point nuclear plant circa 2001  The Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy is the only environmental organization curren...

Asthma

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SINGULAIR (montelukast sodium) is a prescription medicine (usually 10 mg tablets) that controls asthma in adults and children as young as 1...

Clean Diesel Rule (Engines and Fuel)

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One June 1, 2006 EPA began requiring refiners and fuel importers to cut the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel 97 percent, from 500 parts...
Monday, August 28, 2006

Lead : (Pb) (Latin: plumbum) Atomic # 82 Atomic Wt 207

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Lead, the heaviest and softest of common metals, is a bluish-white, silvery, gray metal that is very soft, malleable easily melted, cast, re...

Clean Air Mercury Rule : 1st Time Mercury Regulated

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The Clean Air Mercury Rule is the first-ever rule to regulate mercury emissions from power plants. Finalized in March 2005 and reaffirmed in...

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) " Reggie "

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The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative , or RGGI, is a cooperative effort by Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states to reduce carbon dioxide e...

Ethanol Replaces MTBE as Oxygenate...........But

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The 1990 Clean Air Act amendments required the use of reformulated gasoline (RFG) in metropolitan areas in noncompliance of the law. One req...

MTBE Being Replaced with Ethanol All Over U.S.

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Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ( MTBE ) is a gasoline additive used to boost octane and clean the air. It was introduced in 1979 as a replaceme...

Global Climate Change Is the # 1 Environmental Issue

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Global warming is a very complex scientific issue. We use global warming and global climate change interchangeably because the basic issue i...

Squirrels and Tomatoes

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We had no idea that squirrels were so fond of tomatoes. The Center's two tomato plants are providing nourishment for two local squirrels...
Saturday, August 26, 2006

Producing Electricity & Producing Bombs Different

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Ali Akbar Dareini's description of the role of heavy water in relation to uranium enrichment in his Washington Post article is a little...
Friday, August 25, 2006

1985 - 2006 : Twenty One Years of Green Service

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The Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy (CECE) has 8 goals: 1. Protect the environment. 2. Promote the efficient use of natural re...