Democrats in the senate have decided to put the climate change measure recently passed in the house on the back burner until September citing the Supreme Court nominee hearing and health care. Although the bill is weak, diluted and convoluted with concessions for various industries and subsidies for industries like nuclear energy and carbon capture, [...]
Hard Times Both Good and Bad for Environment
In Atlanta, Georgia, residents are feeling the strain of the economy on their recycling programs. Due to increased expenses, recycling pick-up has been reduced to every other week in some places, and eliminated completely in others. With recycling companies paying less for materials (a ton of recyclables was worth $160 last August, now a ton [...]
HEAT – Tuesday 9pm (PBS)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZhZVYYpQYo] “I think the difficulty we have is that countries that have developed and have done the polluting part are now asking the countries that are developing, ‘OK, you can’t pollute,’” says Hameed Bhombal, of Aditya Birla Group, an Indian megaconglomerate. “It has to be done in a way that’s fair.” HEAT investigates how big [...]
