All Posts Tagged With: "pollution"
For ExxonMobil and Shell: Oil is King. Long Live Oil.
GM posts a 15.5 billion dollar loss, while ExxonMobil, and Shell clean up.
I’m not surprised. All promulgate the same position: Oil is King.
Only for GM, oil loyalty spells disaster. Not thinking about fuel efficient and alternative energy vehicles will sink them. In Darwinian terms: another dinosaur gone extinct.
ExxonMobil and Shell, as […]
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Cash for Clunkers - A Great Idea
Alan Blinder of the New York Times is proposing a new eco-friendly stimulus package called Cash for Clunkers. He describes it as “the best stimulus idea you’ve never heard of.”
I agree. The plan in a nutshell:
“Cash for Clunkers is a generic name for a variety of programs under which the government buys up […]
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Our Polluted Planet- The High Cost of Poor Air Quality
Having trouble breathing? It might be because it’s summer, and air quality goes down as air temperature goes up.
On hot days, you need to pay attention to the Air Quality Index, especially if you have respiratory problems, or if you exercise outdoors regularly.
Air Quality Index , or AQI, is an overall measure of the […]
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Are We Heading Towards a Four Day Work Week?
I’ve been working four ten hour days on and off for over ten years now. As a biotechnical product support specialist living in the Boston area, I work for a team that supplies customer phone support for North America. Working the four long days helps my manager more easily schedule west coast phone […]
7Jul2008 |Lisa | 8 comments | Continued
Are you one of George W. Bush’s Canaries in the Coal Mine?
I felt the hair go up on the back of my neck reading one of my earlier April posts called Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction.
The gist of the article is that, instead of reducing the EPA mandated acceptable smog levels from the what was then 80 ppm to […]
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Global Warming: Fact or Fiction = Democrat or Republican
Forget that scientific research totally supports it, and the rest of the world is trying to find ways to combat it: In the United States, global warming is debatable.
We’ve thrown science out the window, and especially at government levels, it’s become purely a political issue. The “fact” vote is avidly democrat supported, while […]
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Fluorescent Light Bulbs Can Now Be Recycled at Home Depot
Home Depot has just announced that they’ve started a recycling program in the USA for compact fluorescent light bulbs.
For those of you not yet aware, these bulbs each contain 3-5 mg of mercury. The EPA has determined that this level of mercury is high enough to be considered a health hazard, especially with repeated […]
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Sparks Fly Between White House and EPA Over Recent Smog Standard Reduction
I hate to wish the summer away, but the November presidential elections can’t come fast enough for me.
The recent lowering of the smog standard sounded good initially (see my recent article.) The EPA lowered ground level ozone (smog) standards from 80 ppb to 75 ppb. 4000 lives per year would be saved, […]
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ExxonMobil: Part of a $123 Billion Dollar Embarassment
(This post has been corrected based on input in a comment from “Billy”)
With the “top five” leading the way($117 billion) , oil companies posted a record $123 billion dollars in profit last year. ExxonMobil recently announced its highest profit ever- $40.6 billion dollars. The other four companies are Shell Oil($27.5 billion), BP […]
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New USEPA Smog Regulation Could Lower Your Health Bills, and Even Save Your Life
If you’re one of the growing population of asthma sufferers, you’ll be glad to hear that the US EPA has announced it will lower the ground level ozone- aka smog- standards from 80 parts per billion (ppb) to 75 parts per billion.
The move could save 4000 lives per year, and 19 billion dollars in health […]
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The Ultimate Recycling Idea: Carbon Dioxide–>Gasoline
There’s a recently developed concept at Los Alamos National Labs that would extract that villainous pollutant, carbon dioxide (CO2), from the air, and transform it into gasoline.
Here’s the skinny, taken from a recent New York Times article: “The idea is simple. Air would be blown over a liquid solution of potassium […]
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The Mad Hatter Story: Mercury in Compact Flourescent Light Bulbs
The benefits in reduction of energy consumption by replacing conventional light bulbs with flourescent light bulbs is well known. According to a recently published article in the New York Times, they use 75% less energy and last 10 times as long.
Like any good green American, I have replaced 90% of the light bulbs in my […]
17Feb2008 |Lisa | 1 comment | Continued
Trash Man or Trash, Man?
I have been thinking about trash.
No, not that kind of trash. That’s trailer trash.
This kind of trash:
Now, before you go clicking off into the blogosphere, hear me out.
I have been thinking about trash for two reasons:
1) because my town now has mandatory recycling. That means I could, theoretically be fined for not recycling.
This does […]
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