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By Stephen Holzer, Esq.

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Last Entry: March 26, 2011 at 11:52:40

Painful Lessons for Wind Power - HUMAN EVENTS

Posted on March 26, 2011
Neil Anderson lives a quarter of a mile from the turbine. He?s an avid supporter of alternative energy, having owned and operated a passive solar company on Cape Cod for the past 25 years. ?It is dangerous,? he told WGBH...

New device on utility poles can adjust your thermostat

Posted on March 25, 2011
March 25--YORK, Pa -- Dwight Rhine recently spotted additions to the utility poles in his Manchester Township neighborhood and wondered what was up. A metal arm sticks out from the pole, and the object attached to it is partially blue....

Fuel Fix ť Lawmakers urge state, EPA to settle air pollution squabble

Posted on March 25, 2011
A House subcommittee urged the EPA on Thursday to resolve its differences with Texas over the unique way the state regulates industrial air pollution. The bipartisan push came at the end of a hearing in Houston convened by a House...

A case of never letting the source spoil a good story | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian

Posted on March 21, 2011
This week the Telegraph ran the headline "Wind farms blamed for stranding of whales". It continued: "Offshore wind farms are one of the main reasons why whales strand themselves on beaches, according to scientists studying the problem." Lady Warsi even...

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Government Catch-22 Clouds Consumer Adoption of Solar Roofs

Posted on March 19, 2011
From CNBC: As the federal government pushes to make solar energy cost competitive with coal, local governments are undercutting the effort by imposing high fees and red tape on business and consumers. ?Consider thousands of local processes, fees and timelines,?...

Fuel Fix ť EPA proposes regulating mercury from coal plants

Posted on March 16, 2011
Federal environmental regulators proposed new rules today for mercury and other toxic air pollution from coal-fired power plants ? a move that could cost industry billions of dollars while preventing thousands of premature deaths a year. via fuelfix.com As one...

Do drivers with "green cars" put on more miles? ? Autoblog Green

Posted on March 13, 2011
Sweden seems to be experiencing what experts call a backfire effect from the company's rash of green car sales. Swedish car buyers have been snapping up clean diesel and ethanol vehicles in droves thanks to sizable government incentives, but, according...

Expert Warns of Health Risks Associated With New Light Bulbs

Posted on March 12, 2011
(CNSNews.com) ? A lighting expert who has overseen lighting projects including the Statue of Liberty and the Petronas Towers expressed concerns on Capitol Hill Thursday about the safety of certain types of new light bulbs. Appearing before the Senate Energy...

Twitter Blames Japan Earthquake on Global Warming | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Posted on March 12, 2011
Hours after a massive earthquake rattled Japan, environmental advocates connected the natural disaster to global warming. The president of the European Economic and Social Committee, Staffan Nilsson, issued a statement calling for solidarity in tackling the global warming problem...

First Wind backs out of Brimfield wind project | masslive.com

Posted on March 09, 2011
BRIMFIELD ? Boston-based First Wind is not moving forward with a proposal to build a wind farm on top of West Mountain. State Sen. Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre, said he has talked with First Wind representatives who said that after...

Noisy Wind Turbines Attract Complaints - NYTimes.com

Posted on March 09, 2011
Like nearly all of the residents on this island in Penobscot Bay, Art Lindgren and his wife, Cheryl, celebrated the arrival of three giant wind turbines late last year. That was before they were turned on. In the first 10...

B'More Green: Lawsuit threatened over Western MD wind farm - Going Green: Environment, energy, living green, conservation and more in Baltimore, the Chesapeake Bay and beyond - baltimoresun.com

Posted on March 09, 2011
A group of Western Maryland residents and a state conservation group have filed formal notice they'll sue to stop construction of a wind farm in Garrett County, contending the massive turbines "almost certainly" will harm endangered bats in the forested,...

Capitol Alert: Environmental groups tell Democrats to hold firm

Posted on March 09, 2011
Nearly two dozen environmental groups have sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders urging them to reject any changes in environmental and health laws that may be proposed by GOP lawmakers as part of a budget deal....

IBD/TIPP Poll: Americans Back Offshore, ANWR Drilling - Investors.com

Posted on March 08, 2011
With the price of gas up 39 cents at the pump in a month and heading higher amid turmoil in much of the Middle East, Americans wonder why the U.S. isn't doing more to exploit its own oil resources. They...

Los Angeles Community College District: Grand dream loses sheen in glare of daylight - latimes.com

Posted on March 06, 2011
As head of a $5.7-billion, taxpayer-funded program to rebuild the college campuses, Eisenberg commanded attention. But his plan for energy independence was seriously flawed. He overestimated how much power the colleges could generate. He underestimated the cost...

GM sells just 281 Chevy Volts in February, Nissan only moves 67 Leafs ? Autoblog Green

Posted on March 04, 2011
Peruse Chevrolet's February sales release, and you'll notice one number that's blatantly missing: the number of Chevy Volts sold. The number ? a very modest 281 ? is available in the company's detailed data (PDF), but it certainly isn't something...

San Francisco Smells

Posted on March 03, 2011
San Francisco, always known for sense of progressiveness, is now finding that such sense conflicts with its sense of smell. The City has heavily pushed low-flow toilets in order to preserve water use. Now it turns out that the low...

California environmental regulators suffer 2nd defeat in a month

Posted on March 03, 2011
A few weeks ago I wrote about a San Francisco Court?s invalidation of regulations under AB 32 (the ?Global Warming Solutions Act?) because the California Air Resources Board had failed to do an adequate study of the regulations? effects under...

Montana House of Representatives Wrestles Control Of Greenhouse Gas Regulation Away From EPA ? South Texas Tenth Amendment Center

Posted on February 28, 2011
The Montana House of Representatives is taking control of greenhouse gas regulation from the federal government. By a vote of 67-33, Rep. Joe Read?s (R-Ronan) Bill-550, ?An Act Prohibiting The State From Implementing Any Federal Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Program?,? passed...

Robb in pledge to ditch carbon tax - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Posted on February 27, 2011
Opposition frontbencher Andrew Robb says the Coalition will repeal the Government's carbon tax if it wins the next election. The Opposition has been on the attack over the tax since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced it on Thursday, but until...

Sun storm may be 'global Katrina' - Telegraph

Posted on February 27, 2011
Professor Sir John Beddington, the Government's chief scientist, said that the Sun was waking up from a quiet period and was likely to throw a lot more "space weather" at the Earth. Also, the world was increasingly vulnerable to damage...

Parnell claims administration openly hostile to oil states: Gov. Sean Parnell | Alaska news at adn.com

Posted on February 26, 2011
In a speech at the National Press Club, the Republican governor called the federal government "openly hostile" to oil-producing states, particularly for the delays in allowing Shell to drill exploratory wells on leases off Alaska's northern coast that the company...

RIGZONE - Salazar: Won't Bow to Political Pressure to Restart Gulf Deepwater Drilling

Posted on February 26, 2011
nterior Secretary Ken Salazar said that U.S. regulators would not bow to political pressure to restart deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico before they are certain the oil-and-gas industry is capable of containing an oil spill like the one...

SEC Charges Seven in Global Warming Pump-and-Dump Scheme

Posted on February 21, 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a group of seven individuals who perpetrated a fraudulent pump-and-dump scheme in the stock of a sham company that purported to provide products and services to fight global warming. (Excerpt) Read more at...

Solar Flare Interferes With Radio, But No Big Auroras - International Business Times

Posted on February 20, 2011
The largest solar flare in several years has disrupted some communications, though it was not in the right position to create auroral displays visible from lower latitudes. via hken.ibtimes.com

Greenpeace co-founder has second thoughts--NEWS WEEKLY

Posted on February 19, 2011
Canadian environmentalist, Dr Patrick Moore, who helped found Greenpeace, says he left the organisation because it became "increasingly senseless as it adopted an agenda that was anti-science, anti-business, and downright anti-human". In a hard-hitting article for The Vancouver Sun (January...

Republicans attempt to defund 'nefarious' global warming research group - The Hill's Floor Action

Posted on February 19, 2011
Republicans put forth an amendment late Friday night that would remove American funding for a prominent intergovernmental body tasked with exploring the effects of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) drew a firestorm of criticism in 2009...

9th Circuit permits challenge to EPA Clean Water Act decision

Posted on February 17, 2011
On February 3, 2011, a federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel reversed a US District Court?s finding that a timber company could not challenge an EPA decision to keep a creek near Eureka, California listed as an ?impaired water...

Kelly McParland: Ontario quietly reverses field on wind, solar energy | Full Comment | National Post

Posted on February 13, 2011
Times of international turmoil are great moments for domestic governments to make important announcements they don?t want to be noticed. Especially if the announcement involves a sudden reversal in policy that could seriously embarrass the government...

Mexico loses 80-100% of crops to freeze, US prices to skyrocket

Posted on February 12, 2011
The cold weather experienced across much of the US in early February made its way deep into Mexico and early reports estimate 80-100 percent crop losses which are having an immediate impact on prices at US grocery stores with more...

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