All Blog Posts Tagged 'pollution' (14)

If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will 'lose for ever' the chance to…

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As the world's population soars to nearly 7 billion, we here at HuffPost Green thought it time to investigate some of the… Continue

More than 15 months after natural gas drilling contaminated [1] drinking water in Dimock, Pa., state officials are ordering the company

responsible -- Houston-based Cabot Oil and Gas -- to permanently shut

down some of its wells, pay nearly a quarter million dollars in fines,

and permanently provide drinking water to 14 affected…

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Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The News under federal and state open-records laws, plus other reports and studies, reveal a

pattern of emissions of toxic compounds, often including

cancer-causing benzene, from Barnett Shale facilities.

More than 90 percent of the gas-processing plants, compressor stations and wells that agencies have examined with leak-detecting infrared cameras since 2007 were…

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Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have

acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-based

fluids into the ground in the process of hydraulic

fracturing [1], raising further

concerns that existing state and federal regulations don't adequately

protect drinking water from drilling.

Rep. Henry A.…

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Will the EPA get it right this time? An ambitious new study of fracking may finally provide some answer, but THREE YEARS?! Why not 6 months?
http://www.propublica.org/feature/broad-scope-of-epas-fracturing-study-raises-ire-of-gas-industry

Nick Chambers, Gas2.org, April 6th,

2010

After more than a year of wrangling, the new fuel economy and emissions standards that have emerged from the…

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Before we all jump on the Nat Gas Bandwagon, we had better listen to the actual experiences of people who have experienced drilling first hand. We ignore these at our peril.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Natural-Gas-Boom-to-Underc-by-Todd-Darling-100310-922.html

U.S. consumers pay much less for their energy, per kilowatt, than consumers in most industrialized nations. Yet electricity and fuel prices typically fail to reflect the full cost of energy production and consumption, especially in terms of health effects.

The U.S. Congress requested a clarification of "hidden" energy costs as part of its 2005 energy bill. The result, released on Monday, concluded that the external effects of burning fossil fuels cost the United States more than $120… Continue

What can replace fossil fuels in our motors? Algae Biofuel. I'm going to explain how this proven and renewable energy source, which we can grow in our own country, can solve some of the problems we face with energy, pollution, environment, health and economy. What's keeping us from growing our own fuels? Currently, we don't have the farms constructed to grow the algae and, fossil fuels have been cheap enough to keep us from converting. Now that petroleum fuel has lost some of its affordability,… Continue

Sure the earth is warming ,but it's just part of a Sun cycle. read more http://solari.com/blog











What is Electromagnetic Pollution?



TV, cell phone towers, power lines, and house appliances—while they make lives more convenient for some, they also contribute to polluting our electromagnetic atmosphere. A growing number of scientists, health care professionals, and concerned citizens argue that these invisible frequencies are responsible for a host of… Continue

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The draft measures from the state Air Resources Board would affect more than 1 million heavy-duty trucks. They are scheduled to take effect in 2010.

Source: Copyright 2008, LA Times

Date: October 24, 2008

Byline: Margot Roosevelt

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California's Air Resources Board today released long-awaited draft rules to clean up big-rig pollution that can aggravate asthma,… Continue

This post was motivated by reading another PickMember blog talking about the ERA bill, which I am not familiar with, but here are my comments.



IMHO – The American people should be speaking out on anything buried in any initiative that is not 100% renewable and (in my personal opinion) 100% zero carbon and zero toxin.



We don’t need coal liquefication processes, or the support of nuclear. Nuclear especially is just creating a new problem. Has anyone read the news about the… Continue