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By Susan Smith

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 14:15:36

Recessions

Posted on September 26, 2008
Try the link to visualizing economics (Link to Visualizing Economics) to see lots of cool charts, including their chart on Average US Income from 1900-2006 (Visualizing Economics Average Income Chart ), which shows average US income over the last century...

Crude skyrockets to $ 130+...the insanity continues

Posted on September 22, 2008
Crude futures leaped as much as $25 per barrel, or 24.3%, shortly before the New York close Monday, to tap a high of $130 per barrel. They're poised to score their biggest daily gain since 1984 -- when crude began...

Crude oil moves to $ 116

Posted on September 22, 2008
Crude rallied today above $116/barrel, the highest price in three weeks, based on the prospect that the Bush bailout will prompt economic growth. I'm not sure about growth, but $ 1 trillion + is bound to create a bit of...

Hurricane Season Continues...and so Does Global Warming

Posted on September 22, 2008
During the 2008 hurricane season, 10 tropical storms and hurricanes have ravaged Haiti, Cuba and the US Gulf coast. Six Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes hit the US from late July to mid-September, causing billions of dollars in damage. Four...

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McCain's Freeze on Discretionary Spending Includes all Energy and other R&D

Posted on September 20, 2008
Jeffrey Mervis of ScienceNOW Daily News [link] reported yesterday that next year's federal budget will not contain even one penny more for scientific research, technology development, and science education if McCain is elected, assuming Congress cannot muster enough votes to...

Awesome Chart of Financial Crisis

Posted on September 20, 2008
The NY Times has a great chart illustrating what has happened to the stock of financial companies in the last year. You can click on the image to get a sharper copy. The Bush Administration wants another $ 700 billion...

Findlaw's Environmental Law Case Summaries

Posted on September 20, 2008
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CASES ? Fund For Animals v. Kempthorne ? US v. Capital Tax Corp. ? Missouri Coalition for the Env't Found. v. US Army Corps of Eng'rs ? NRDC v. Winter ? National Resources Defense Council v. US Envtl....

Iraq and Oil

Posted on September 19, 2008

McCain's Green Economy: Drill, Baby, Drill

Posted on September 19, 2008
Here's one perspective on McCain's energy policy: "When it comes to the environment, John McCain only has the interests of Big Oil at heart. That's why he has over 22 Big Oil lobbyists advising him. That's why he favored lifting...

Legislative Climate Change Targets in the 110th Congress

Posted on September 19, 2008
For those of you teaching climate change, WRI has a great comparison of the emission reduction targets of various legislative proposals. WRI analysis of US climate legislation targets The World Resources Institute?s analysis of emissions targets and cumulative emissions budgets...

Palin can't get her energy facts straight

Posted on September 17, 2008
The Washington Post Fact Checker Michael Dobbs has awarded Sarah Palin four Pinocchios (the worst lie possible) for continuing to claim that she oversees "nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of oil and gas" as Governor of Alaska....

Blog Action Day is October 15th: Blog on Global Poverty

Posted on September 17, 2008
Blog Action Day is October 15th. This year the topic is global poverty. On Blog Action Day, bloggers commit to discussing the topic from the special perspective that their blog brings to the issue. As it happens, Blog Action Day...

And none of us, including the market, are happy....

Posted on September 17, 2008
With bad news from Goldman Sachs, Wamu and other financial sector entities, U.S. stocks plunged yet again today, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing at its lowest level since November 2005. Despite the $ 85 billion rescue of American...

AIG to be acquired by Fed at a cost of $ 85 billion

Posted on September 16, 2008
The Federal Reserve is reportedly taking a nearly 80 percent stake in the world's largest insurance company, the American International Group, in exchange for an $85 billion loan. All of AIG?s assets would be pledged to secure the loan and...

Pope says water is a universal inalienable human right

Posted on September 15, 2008
Pope Benedict XVI supported a universal 'right to water' in a message communicated from the Vatican to an international conference on the issue of Water and Sustainable Development, in Zaragoza, Spain this summer. Profit should not be the only reason...

Hurricanes Reach Higher Wind Speeds Due to Ocean Warming -- Another Climate Change Effect

Posted on September 15, 2008
A June 27 letter to Nature 455, 92-95 (4 September 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature07234 from James Eisner, James Kossin, and Thomas Jagger, suggests that Atlantic tropical hurricanes are getting stronger due to increased ocean temperatures. While the same phenomenon is observed...

Corps Jurisdictional Determinations are not Final Agency Actions under APA

Posted on September 15, 2008
The 9th Circuit ruled on Friday in Fairbanks North Star Borough v. U.S. Army Corp of Engineers that a final jurisdictional determination by the Army Corps of Engineers that an entire parcel is subject to CWA 404 jurisdiction is not...

Oil Prices

Posted on September 15, 2008
Despite Hurricane Ike shutting down 17% of the US oil production capacity, crude fell below $ 100 on more bad news about the financial markets. Merrill Lynch and Lehman Bros. are going under and AIG needs $ 40 billion from...

Findlaw Environmental Law Case Summaries

Posted on September 12, 2008
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CASES ? Kentucky Waterways Alliance v. Johnson ? Geerston Seed Farms v. Monsato Co. ? Wong v. Bush ? Sierra Club v. Johnson ? Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. California Fish and Game Comm'n. To view the full-text...

OSU scientists establish the value of old growth forests as carbon sinks

Posted on September 12, 2008
Today, OSU scientists and other international researchers are publishing an analysis in Nature that runs counter to 40 years of conventional wisdom. Their report suggests that old growth forests are usually "carbon sinks" - they continue to absorb carbon dioxide...

House Select Committee battles for global warming documents

Posted on September 10, 2008
The House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming has sought documents related to the Department of Transportation?s assertion that California?s rights to issue regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles using Clean Air Act authority are...

IEA Sees Potential Long-term Reduction in US Oil Demand

Posted on September 10, 2008
The International Energy Agency (IEA link) cut its estimate for global oil demand today based on the changes Americans are making in their lifestyles in response to high gasoline prices and the recession. North American demand fell 5.3% and 2.9%...

NWF Honors Willamette University as Most Exemplary Program of Campus Sustainability Activities in the Nation

Posted on September 08, 2008
Willamette Recognized as First in Nation for Sustainability Activities In the nation?s largest survey to date, the National Wildlife Federation recognized Willamette University as first in the nation for sustainability activities. NWF?s ?Campus Environment 2008: A National Report Card on...

Best Estimate of 2100 Sea Level Rise is nearly 1 meter to as much as 2 meters

Posted on September 05, 2008
Pfeffer et al have published the first serious assessment of how projected sea level rise by 2100 due to global warming will be affected by ice sheet loss in Greenland and Antartica. Their conclusion is that 80 cm -- slightly...

ExxonMobil agrees to pay most of the reduced Exxon Valdez damage award - about 3 % of its most recent quarterly profits

Posted on August 29, 2008
This week ExxonMobil and plaintiffs' lawyers in the Exxon Valdez case concluded a settlement to pay out most of the $507.5 million maximum damages award set by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. August 26, 2008 AK Daily news Exxon...

Palin hugs big oil, not bears

Posted on August 29, 2008
Gristmill reports the lowdown on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain's VP pick: ...She has pushed to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling and to build a natural-gas pipeline from Alaska's North Slope, and earlier this year she...

Hydrogen cars cross US (well....about 2/3 of it)

Posted on August 25, 2008
Planet Ark (link) reported that hydrogen cars from 9 manufacturers (Honda, GM, Toyota Motor Corp, Ford Motor Co, BMW AG, Daimler AG, Hyundai Motor Co, Nissan Motor Co, and Volkswagen AG) completed a US DOT backed cross-country trip from Portland,...

EPA Sued for Failure to Regulate CO2 in Oil Refinery NSPS

Posted on August 25, 2008
Planet Ark reports: New York, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia and the City of New York, are suing federal environmental regulators over greenhouse...

Findlaw Environmental Law Case Summaries

Posted on August 25, 2008
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CASES ? Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Nat'l Highway Traffic Safety Admin. ? El Comite para el Bienestar de Earlimart v. Warmerdam ? James River Ins. Co. v. Ground Down Engineering, Inc. ? Sierra Club v. Envtl. Prot....

Senators call for EPA Administrator Johnson's resignation

Posted on July 30, 2008
It's about time. Johnson has stonewalled for the Bush administration long enough. Yesterday Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) called for EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson's resignation, charging...

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