National
and International News
Heat
Wave In Central U.S. Shows No Signs Of Ending (By Murray Evans, The
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 7/17/11)
Cutting
Need for Energy by Using Less of It (By Bettina Wassener, The New York
Times, 7/17/11)
BP
Oil Still Ashore One Year After End of Gulf Spill (By Jim Polson, Bloomberg
News, 7/15/11)
Fracking
Coloring Book Dropped By Talisman Energy (The Associated Press as reported
by The Huffington Post, 7/15/11)
Coal-Fired
Power Plants Targeted By Sierra Club In Washington, D.C. (PHOTOS) (The
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 7/14/11)
The
Challenge of Pedestrian-Friendly Planning (Reported by Kojo Nnamdi, NPR -
The Kojo Nnamdi Show, 7/14/11)
Forests
soak up third of fossil fuel emissions: study (By Marlowe Hood, AFP as
reported by Yahoo News, 7/14/11)
On
Biking, Why Can't the U.S. Learn Lessons from Europe? Building bike paths alone
will not get people out of their cars in the U.S. and onto bicycles. To create
a thriving bike culture in America's cities, people must begin to view
bicycling as Europeans (By Elisabeth Rosenthal, Environment 360,
7/14/11)
New
Herbicide Suspected in Tree Deaths (By Jim Robbins, The New York Times -
Green Blog, 7/14/11)
US
solution to oil crisis simulation: drill more: Former White House officials take part in
Oil ShockWave war game to determine US response to a terrorist attack on Saudi
oil supplies (By Suzanne
Goldenberg, The [UK] Guardian - Environment, 7/14/11)
Time For Congress to End
Big Oil Subsidies (By Carl Gibson, Common Dreams, 7/14/11)
Another
Dirty Water Act (New York Times Editorial, 7/14/11)
Oil
markets face production shortfall in second half (By Jeff Rubin, The [Canada]
Globe and Mail, 7/13/11)
New
York Becoming a Model for How to Effectively Create Green Jobs: A new law will
help generate 1 million energy efficiency retrofits on homes and businesses and
create over 14,000 full time permanent jobs. (By Emmaia Gelman and Chloe Tribich,
Alternet.org - Environment, 7/13/11)
USDA
Finds New Ways To Boost Farm-To-School Programs (By Steve Karnowski, The
Huffington Post - Green Blog, 7/13/11)
Al
Gore's Reality Show (By John M. Broder, The New York Times - Green Blog,
7/13/11)
Heatstroke
Deaths Quadruple as Japan Shuns Air Conditioners to Save Power (By Kanoko Matsuyama and Shigeru Sato, Bloomberg News, 7/13/11)
Sizing the
Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment (By Mark Muro,
Jonathan Rothwell and Devashree Saha, Brookings Institution, 7/13/11)
G.O.P.
Bid to Void Light Bulb Law Fails (By Sean Collins Walsh, The New York Times
- Energy and Environment, 7/12/11)
Why
high-carbon investment could be the next sub-prime crisis: Over-exposure to
fossil fuel investments could have even more severe implications than those of
the financial crisis (By Ben Caldecott,
The [UK] Guardian, 7/12/11)
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