Weekly Web Roundup
Posted January 30, 2009 in The Media and the Environment
President Obama kicked off the week by telling the EPA to reconsider a request by California to impose stricter limits on tailpipe emissions. In other news:
- Exposure to the coal ash spill in Tennessee could lead to serious health problems. Get updates on the coal ash spill from Switchboard bloggers here.
- Climate Progress details the House and Senate stimulus plans. NRDC bloggers write about the stimulus package here.
- Recycle yogurt containers at Whole Foods! If you live in the Northeast, Midwest or Northern California, you can drop off otherwise unrecyclable #5 plastics at Whole Food Markets.
- LimeWire's creator brings open-source software approach to urban planning.
- Green Action Project offers free CFL recycling for schools, non-profit organizations and more.
- The wind industry now employs more people than the coal mining industry in the United States.
- Vitamin Water gets sued over alleged deceptive marketing practices.
- Fast Company breaks down the controversy around BPA.
- Scientists find a way to make LEDs more energy efficient and cheaper to produce.
- On Huffington Post, Sarah Newman writes about President Obama's efforts to change Bush-era environmental policies.
- A NOAA scientist releases a study that says global warming is irreversible.
- The FDA sat on evidence that high-fructose corn syrup is tainted with mercury.
- Al Gore presents his updated Inconvenient Truth presentation to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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