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La. doctor cleared in patient deaths recalls storm

Posted by Jeff from Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Trapped in a hospital with 2,000 people in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Anna Pou recalls her throat burning from the rancid smell....

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Texas To Build $4.93B Wind-Power Project

Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

Power News Technology Hugh Pickens points out a story in the NYTimes about Texas' $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project. One of the major goals of the project is to improve electrical throughput to the population centers. Current transmission lines are unable to handle all of the power generated by Texas' wind fields. State citizens will be paying slightly more to help cover the cost, though the project is expected to eventually lower the cost to consumers.

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Thomas Friedman: 9/11 and 4/11

Posted by Jeff from New York Times

What doesn't the Bush crowd get? It's this: We don't have a "gasoline price problem." We have an addiction problem. We are addicted to dirty fossil fuels, and this addiction is driving a whole set of toxic trends that are harming our nation and world in many different ways. It is intensifying global warming, creating runaway global demand for oil and gas, weakening our currency by shifting huge amounts of dollars abroad to pay for oil imports, widening "energy poverty" across Africa, destroying plants and animals at record rates and fostering ever-stronger petro-dictatorships in Iran, Russia and Venezuela.

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Another nuclear leak in France

Posted by Jeff from International Herald Tribune

Uranium-bearing liquid has leaked from a broken underground pipe at a nuclear plant in southeastern France, the national nuclear safety authority said Friday. It was the second leak discovered at a French site this month. The Nuclear Safety Authority said experts were trying to determine how much leaked uranium was present at the plant, which is owned by the electricity company Areva.

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'Phenomenal' oil and gas rights sale sets stage for exploration push in B.C.

Posted by Jeff from Globe and Mail

British Columbia has raked in a record-breaking $610-million in an oil and gas rights sale, the latest in a series of windfalls driven by a rush of natural gas producers looking to lock up land in the northeastern part of the province. The tally from the one-day sale smashes the old record of $441-million set in May, and puts B.C.'s total land sale proceeds so far this year at $1.58-billion. That surpasses last year's record mark of $1.04-billion, and ranks as among the biggest to date in Canada.

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Canada: This is the dirtiest oil in the world

Posted by Jeff from therealnews.com

The Guardian: What happens when the world's biggest oil companies target a northern wilderness?

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Bush climate action now? "Bogus": Schwarzenegger

Posted by Jeff from Feeds.reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Sunday the Bush administration did not believe it should do anything about global warming and that any last-minute action before leaving office would be "bogus."

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President George Bush: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter'

Posted by Shemuses from Telegraph.c

George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan. The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

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LCD Chemical Found to Have 17,000 Times the Climate Impact of CO2.

Posted by Jeff from Environmental News Network

Dubbed the "missing greenhouse gas," nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) was found by a recent study to have a global climate impact 17,000 times greater than carbon dioxide. The chemical is found in the LCD panels of cell phones, televisions, and computer monitors, as well as in semiconductors and synthetic diamonds.

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Climate-change goals fall short at G8

Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail

Hopes have dimmed for stronger action on climate change - a central goal of this week's G8 summit in Japan - with countries such as the United States and Canada resisting calls for the group to set hard midterm targets for reducing emissions. There's a sense here that, besides some modest steps, leaders are already looking beyond this summit to next year's UN climate-change talks, and the successor to U.S. President George W. Bush.

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Will Richmond, Ca, Stand up To Chevron?

Posted by Shemuses from

Richmond, Ca - on July 15th the Richmond City Council has a chance to make history. On that day it could be the first city in the U.S. to decide to protect the health of its residents and stand up to the Chevron Oil Company and impose a cap on their plans for further expansion. To do that the Council will have to turn down Chevron Richmond's proposed "Energy & Hydrogen Renewal" project to process thicker-dirtier crude oil. On the other hand, if the council approved it, it would expand some of Chevron's refinery's most polluting processes.

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Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis

Posted by Jon from Guardian UK

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.

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