NRDC on Western Cap and Trade Program, Carp Plan for Great Lakes, Carbon Cost of Corn Ethanol, and Dangers of More Nuclear Subsidies
Posted February 12, 2010 in The Media and the Environment
Laura Sanchez explained, in the New York Times, that while Arizona’s withdrawal from the Western cap-and-trade program was a step backwards, it will not likely effect the implementation of the regional plan… Thom Cmar lambasted a federal plan to stop the advance of Asian carp into the Great Lakes in an Associated Press story that appeared in the Washington Post. Thom said the plan offers “a lot of middle-ground alternatives with no discussion of why any of them would actually work."… Thom asserted in the Detroit News that there is only one long-term solution: permanently separate the Great Lakes from the Mississippi river basin…
Nathanael Greene commented on discrepancies between federal and Californian evaluations of the carbon cost of corn ethanol in Scientific American… Bob Deans expressed NRDC’s grave concerns about federal subsidies for nuclear energy and offshore oil drilling in a FoxNews.com story; Bob also spoke about climate change concerns on Fox News yesterday… Yahoo! Green referenced NRDC statistics on energy waste from certain appliances in an article advising readers on how to increase the efficiency of their home electronics…
