Weekly Web Roundup: clean cars, clean energy, red swings

• House committee passes the American Clean Energy and Security Act, a bill that will make significant investments in clean energy and reducing global warming pollution.
• President Obama announces ground-breaking global warming pollution standards for cars and trucks.
• Secretary Chu says he will use $2.4 billion of the stimulus money to speed up technology to reduce greenhouse gases from coal-fired power plants and factories.
• Pesticides indicted as cause of Colony Collapse Disorder.
• At least ten species of dragonfly and damselfly face threat of extinction.
• Dredging of pollutants begins in Hudson River twenty-five years after a long stretch of the river became a Superfund site.
• Starbucks hosts a cup summit to examine how to recycle its paper cups; 3,000,000,000 Starbucks cups end up in landfills each year.
• Study shows that pollution can change DNA in just three days, causing increased rates of cancer and other diseases.
• EPA finds hazardous materials in imported drywall; 100,000 U.S. homes could be affected.
• Three red swings appear on San Francisco's BART.
• The City of Toronto plans to bring walkable urbanism to dreary high-rise towers.
• Study finds that the Waxman-Markey bill could be a $750 billion boon for consumers who could receive direct and indirect handouts and subsidies through 2030 to offset higher energy costs.
• The federal government is giving $50 million in grants to car-manufacturing communities to train laid-off workers for green jobs.
• New study is first to show that drinking from polycarbonate bottles increases levels of urinary BPA.

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