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Do Gas Rebates Encourage Being Wasteful?
No one likes the high gas prices we’ve been stuck with the past few years, but the truth of the matter is that they encourage us to conserve gas. However according to CreditCardForum.com, they believe “the simple solution to high gas prices are gas credit cards.” Meanwhile, Chrysler thought their “Refuel America” cheap gas guarantee [...]
Continue reading...Oil Industry out of US Energy Future
28. May 2010
President Obama’s sensible and encouraging first step in ensuring that the BP oil spill disaster can never happen again – but the “never” will only last for the next six months while his commission reaches a conclusion. The President went some way towards exposing the root cause of this disaster in highlighting the oil industry’s [...]
Continue reading...Gulf Oil Spill: Dispersants Have Potential to Cause More Harm Than Good
12. May 2010
The chemical dispersants being used to break up the oil leaking into the gulf following the explosion of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig have the potential to cause just as much, if not more, harm to the environment and the humans coming into contact with it than the oil possibly would if left [...]
Continue reading...Old Habits Die Hard at First UN Climate Conference of 2010
15. April 2010
The first UNFCCC meeting since the failed Copenhagen Climate Change Summit closed today, with countries agreeing to minimal measures on how to move forward. The meeting was marred by a complete lack of the required sense of urgency as many countries fell back on bad habits. Instead of focusing on making progress on how to [...]
Continue reading...Governments fail to protect endangered species at CITES
29. March 2010
As the 15th meeting of the conference of parties to the Convention in Trade of Endangered Species (CITES) closes today, Greenpeace condemned governments for putting short-term economic interests ahead of the long-term survival of endangered species. “Too many governments at CITES have voted to protect profits not endangered species,” said Oliver Knowles, Greenpeace International Oceans [...]
Continue reading...TSCA Chemical Inventory Free of Charge Online
17. March 2010
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s strong commitment to increase information on chemicals, for the first time, EPA is providing web access, free of charge, to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory. This inventory contains a consolidated list of thousands of industrial chemicals maintained by the agency. EPA is also making [...]
Continue reading...EPA Increases Transparency on Chemical Risk Information
27. January 2010
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a new policy to increase the public’s access to information on chemicals. Starting today, EPA has announced its intention to reject a certain type of confidentiality claim, known as Confidential Business Information (CBI), [...]
Continue reading...‘BASIC’ Meeting expected to outline Climate Strategy
25. January 2010
Environment Ministers from the ‘BASIC’ group of the world’s main emerging economies – Brazil, China, India and South Africa – meet in New Delhi, India, on Sunday 24 January to discuss their joint strategy for the UN climate negotiations. Their session will be the first multilateral meeting following the failure of last month’s climate summit [...]
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14. July 2010
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