Washington: TransAlta Coal-Fired Power Plant Under Fire for Mercury
Environmentalists say mercury emissions from the TransAlta coal-burning electric power plant in Washington state are dangerous.
Source: Tacoma News-Tribune, 02/01/2011
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"EPA Proposes No Changes to Carbon Monoxide Limits"
"The current air quality standards for carbon monoxide (CO) are strong enough to protect public health, U.S. EPA said today as the agency issued a proposal to keep the existing limits."
Source: Greenwire, 02/01/2011
"Maine Governor Proposes 63 Clean Energy and Environment Reversals"
"The new Tea Party governor says businesses are on the endangered species list, but opponents say his proposals will harm the state's nature-based economy."
Source: SolveClimate, 02/01/2011
"Exxon’s Profit Rises in Quarter, Helped by Higher Oil Prices"
"Exxon Mobil, the largest American oil company, reported a 53 percent increase in its fourth-quarter profit on Monday, helped by an improving world economy that has increased energy demand and crude prices."
Source: NY Times, 02/01/2011
"Disputed Reactor Design Moves Forward"
"Westinghouse appears to have won an important first round in a battle with critics over the radical design of the containment system for its new AP1000 reactor. A panel of senior safety advisers has told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that with a few additional procedures and analyses, the design should be approved."
Source: Green (NYT), 02/01/2011
DEADLINE: Fifth International Marine Debris Conference Journalist Travel Scholarship
Ocean Conservancy is offering a travel scholarship to one working print, broadcast, or on-line journalist who covers environmental issues to attend the Fifth International Marine Debris Conference (5IMDC) entitled Wave of Change: Global Lessons to Inspire Local Action in Honolulu, Hawaii from March 20-25. Apply by Feb 11th.
"Analysis: Obama Green Job Vision Faces Challenge From Abroad"
"CEO Bill Watkins wants to build a $100 million next-generation LED light factory near his Silicon Valley-area headquarters, but China wants the 2,000 jobs he hopes to create."
Source: Reuters, 01/31/2011
25 Arrested Outside Fossil-Fuel Billionaires' Right-Wing Retreat
"Hundreds of environmentalists, union members and liberal activists converged on Rancho Mirage on Sunday to rally against what they see as the influence of two of the nation's leading financial backers of conservative causes."
Source: LA Times, 01/31/2011
"Polar Bear's Long Swim Illustrates Ice Melt"
"Searching for food, one female bear was tracked as she swam for 9 days across the Beaufort Sea before reaching an ice floe. Litigation continues over protection of bear habitat."
Source: LA Times, 01/31/2011
Is Gary Turning Lake Michigan into a Sewer?
"Over the past three years, the Gary Sanitary District has discharged at least 6.8 billion gallons of raw and partially treated sewage to the bacteria-impaired Grand Calumet River and the flood-prone Little Calumet River, according to a Post-Tribune analysis of state data."
Source: Gary Post-Tribune, 01/31/2011
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