Thankfully, we only have a few more months to get through, but still…really?
“U.S. lawmakers said the Bush administration will reveal it will not take measures to tackle greenhouse gas emissions while the president is in office in a proposal by environmental regulators to be announced on Friday…Lawmakers who saw drafts of the EPA’s advanced notice [...]
According to ENN, George Bush plans to veto the new United States climate change bill because the $6 trillion dollar cost will be too much to handle. Somehow, though, we can always find the money to:
Spend $341.4 million, PER DAY, on war
Spend $168 billion for the stimulus package
Spend $229 million on a tax break for [...]
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Dear EarthTalk: How is it said that we are “losing winter” because of climate change? It didn’t seem so last winter, when it even snowed in places for the very first time.
The effects of global warming manifest themselves differently in different locations, and winter is no doubt [...]
EarthTalk is a weekly installment from E/The Environmental Magazine.
Dear EarthTalk: How is wind power faring in the U.S. now? Is more of it coming on line and becoming a larger percent of the grid? And what about some of the highly publicized efforts to build wind farms, such as in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Has that [...]
