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GDP: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be?: The headline reads “U.S. Climate Bill Could Cut GDP 3.5 Percent by 2050.” Should we care? by erica — last modified Sep 23, 2009 01:19 PM — filed under: climate change, water pollution, Nicolas Sarkozy, politics, overfishing, Peter Bartelmus, Green GDP, air quality, Joseph Stiglitz, China, policy, gross domestic product, economy, ecosystem services, global warming, global economy, ecosystems, Alan Mollohan, air pollution, economics, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Tennessee Coal Ash Contaminated With Radioactivity and Arsenic: Remember that huge spill of coal ash at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston coal-fired power plant on December 22nd? New measurements by Duke University ... by erica — last modified Sep 03, 2009 10:21 AM — filed under: aerosols, radioactivity, air quality, air pollution, particulate matter, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, coal, Duke University, coal ash, water pollution, arsenic, radium, Tennessee Valley Authority — Relevance: 1%
Finally Standards for Coal Ash … Just in Time?: On Monday, while the Environmental Protection Agency sought information from electric companies about their coal waste disposal practices, a new crisis was ... by erica — last modified Jul 06, 2009 11:30 AM — filed under: waste, toxins, water pollution, Bill Clinton, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, coal ash, policy, Environmental Protection Agency, power plants, Tennessee Valley Authority, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Hong Kong Journal: This is my second dispatch from Hong Kong, where I am helping City University of Hong Kong develop a new Energy and Environment program. Hong Kong is known as ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 01:59 PM — filed under: waste, air quality, business, air pollution, Pearl River, energy, natural gas, water, global economy, Guandong Province, water pollution, factories, Hong Kong, industry — Relevance: 1%
Clean Coal’s Dirty Secret - When 'Clean' Isn't Clean: Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. Burning it produces a myriad of noxious air pollutants. That's a problem. Clean coal technology supposedly scrubs those ... by erica — last modified Jul 06, 2009 11:27 AM — filed under: air quality, air pollution, particulate matter, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, coal, water pollution, coal ash, waste, Tennessee Valley Authority, power plants — Relevance: 1%
Obama: The Environmental President?: It's official: there's a new U.S. president. Will Barack Obama be able to advance an environmental agenda? If so, he will have distinguished himself from ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 12:13 PM — filed under: cap and trade, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Fish & Wildlife Service, Diane Feinstein, water pollution, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Clean Air Act (1990), air quality, legislation, Clean Water Act, National Park Service, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Air Act, Abraham Lincoln, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, oceans, global warming, Barack Obama, Endangered Species Act, Jimmy Carter, Al Gore, air pollution, Woodrow Wilson, Montreal Protocol, George W. Bush, Environmental Protection Agency, Yosemite — Relevance: 1%
Go Green by Eating More of Your Greens: A recent statistic from the American Museum of Natural History's new water exhibit got me thinking about one of the boldest steps any of us can take to lead a ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 02:22 PM — filed under: animals, food, climate change, energy, greenhouse gases, global warming, water, health, water pollution, methane — Relevance: 1%
Drink Up Your Soft Drink - Another Critical Habitat in Decline: A new <a class="external-link" href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/07/07/0905620106.abstract">paper</a> in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy ... by erica — last modified Jul 10, 2009 09:03 AM — filed under: seagrasses, Pulse of the Planet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, water pollution, seagrass meadows, habitat degradation, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Forget Mackerel. Holy Bass.: The Clean Water Act is no longer keeping our water clean. by erica — last modified Sep 16, 2009 05:08 PM — filed under: intersex fish, Richard Nixon, dead zone, policy, fish, legislation, endocrine disrupters, water, Clean Water Act, water pollution, nutrient runoff, fertilizer, politics, waste, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Living on the Edge: Are there limits to how much we can grow as a society and survive? by erica — last modified Sep 28, 2009 03:39 PM — filed under: social science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, climate change, nutrient runoff, water pollution, climate disruption, agriculture, Anthropocene, The Limits to Growth, boundaries, particulate matter, ocean acidification, carbon dioxide emissions, oceans, global warming, water, chemical pollution, Holocene, climate, biodiversity, Thomas Malthus, ozone hole, Club of Rome, pollution — Relevance: 1%