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Greenius Is Fired Up Over Obama’s Green Economic Recovery Bill!

Creative Greenius

The EPA is about to start regulating deadly CO2 emissions from coal fired power plants. Read the letter Lisa Jackson, new head of the EPA, sent the Sierra Club and Joe Romm’s excellent analysis here. The coal industry is about to get what’s coming to them and not a moment too soon. This is very bad news for the bad guys.

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Plug-in Hybrid Study: Electricity Better

Plugs and Cars

You can dig around the websites of NRDC, UCS and the Sierra Club and come to understand that an electric path would be best for all of us, but their advocacy has not reflected the science. Tags: air pollution union of concerned scientists environmental organizations dan becker air quality epri NRDC Sierra Club. billion metric tons.

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EPA Says No: Dems Get Rolled Again

Plugs and Cars

Bush started the day signing the energy bill that Nancy Pelosi called "earth-shattering change in terms of energy policy" and Sierra Club's Carl Pope said "is a clean break with the failed energy policies of the past and puts us on the path toward a cleaner, greener energy future." It took less than 12 hours. The Democrats got rolled again.

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Lutz Chats Volt with "Fellow Bloggers"

Plugs and Cars

We're curiously disappointed with all the talk about CO2 in Washington and we have to put industry's feet to the fire and improve fuel economy. Nobody really asks wouldn't it be smarter to put more energy into what you guys are doing with the Volt.

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IEEE’s Plan To Help Combat Climate Change

Cars That Think

For example, organizations such as the Sierra Club and the World Wildlife Fund aspire to make the world carbon-neutral in 30 to 40 years. Our job as engineers is decarbonization, so we need to extract the CO2 released from power plants and hold it somewhere else. IEEE is here to listen to them. Carbon sequestration.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

Green Car Congress

In a worst case scenario, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra Nevada snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture as well as cities. ºF) above pre-industrial levels as well as the long-term stabilization of greenhouse gases at a 350 ppm CO2 equivalent.

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

She is an avid runner and hiker, having grown up camping most summers in the Sierra Nevada. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex.

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