Tag: environment
member name: David K.
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December 10, 2009 05:50 PM EST --
Yes, News Corp. The parent organization of Fox News Channel, Dow Jones and many other conservative outlets. James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Chairman and Chief Executive . . .
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December 14, 2009 06:59 AM EST --
I have been posting the statements of key participants in the recent Senate EPW Committee hearings on TSCA chemical control reform. Previously I posted the Chairwoman's opening statement , the Ranking . . .
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November 25, 2009 10:09 AM EST --
I first predicted this about 10 days ago, but President Obama has now officially confirmed that he will be attending the COP15 meeting in Copenhagen. He will attend on December 9th, the . . .
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November 21, 2009 01:59 PM EST --
The "big news" is that some emails from a leading British climate research lab (NOT Hadley) were hacked into and somehow they "expose" the "climate alarmist conspiracy" ...yada yada yada.
Sigh.
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December 05, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson testified at the Senate hearing on TSCA reform on Wednesday, December 2, 2009. The title of the hearing is "Oversight Hearing on the Federal Toxic Substances Control . . .
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November 18, 2009 07:16 AM EST --
Regarding the recent video of two EPA lawyers providing their opinions on cap-and-trade, I received the following comment in response to something I said.
I'm actually suprised David, above, is . . .
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October 24, 2007 08:13 AM EDT --
Last night CNN and the Discovery Channel aired the documentary, Planet in Peril. The documentary touched on many environmental and resource issues around the globe. Biomonitoring, the measurement . . .
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April 12, 2009 06:14 PM EDT --
Sure, we all know what is in Windex. Right? Isopropanol, 2-Butoxyethanol, Ethylene glycol n-hexyl ether, Water, and Ammonia. Well, now you can go to a new web site set up by S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. . . .
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September 03, 2009 03:38 PM EDT --
At a recent meeting of the American Chemical Society , the worlds largest professional scientific society, a researcher from Japan presented a paper demonstrating that plastics floating in the ocean . . .
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October 15, 2009 02:46 PM EDT --
"U.S. EPA released a long-sequestered document on global warming today showing the George W. Bush administration had concluded in December 2007 that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles were . . .
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June 29, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
Where better to celebrate Chinese New Year than in China! I had just such an opportunity recently and took full advantage of it in Hong Kong, Macau, and then on to the Thai capitol of Bangkok (see . . .
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November 23, 2007 12:50 PM EST --
I received an email from Michelle H earlier today with this question: "
" You are the scientist...How many years of oil do we have left on the planet?
I'm thinking . . .
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February 17, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
On August 21, 2007 the leaders of the three nations of North America (US President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon) announced that their respective . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:58 AM EST --
All eyes in the United States have been on the $813 billion economic stimulus package passed last week by the US House of Representatives. One line item that many may have missed is an amendment that . . .
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March 29, 2009 10:20 AM EDT --
I mentioned previously the climate change conference held in Copenhagen , which was designed to stimulate some activism on the part of scientists in preparation for December's much anticipated international . . .
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September 15, 2009 02:14 PM EDT --
Okay, technically the European Union isn't saying that sushi should be banned. But the EU has recommended listing bluefin tuna as an endangered species. And that could eventually mean that trade of . . .
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September 29, 2009 10:43 AM EDT --
Not long ago I posted here about a continent of plastic circulating in the Pacific gyre, and how slow degradation of some plastics may actually be releasing toxins. Since then a great deal of discussion . . .
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December 08, 2009 10:23 AM EST --
Read this book. Seriously. Read it. Those who are familiar with the IPCC and with the climate change discussions will have heard of Stephen H. Schneider . Not only did he receive . . .
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November 11, 2008 03:04 PM EST --
A while back Sandy Knauer started a new group called Icons in which people would explain the origins of their Gather icons. Well, now I'm finally getting to doing mine.
My . . .
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January 31, 2009 08:05 AM EST --
The European Union's Ecolabel scheme should be beefed up to encourage less use of potentially dangerous chemicals in products, says a report by the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) and the European . . .
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