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, [...]
US gives poor environmental performance among G8
Recently, the WWF-Allianz SE G8 Global Climate Scorecard report was released, showing how the members of G8 ranked in cutting CO2 emissions and introducing clean energy. Basically, the report showed their progress in “going green”. The United States was second to last. And if this ranking wasn’t bad enough, it’s actually a step up from [...]
Finally going "from gas-friendly to gas-free" – just in time for $4/gallon gas
General Motors has, for awhile now, been touting a great motto – “From gas-friendly to gas-free”. Ever since I saw it I thought it was just a motto – nothing the company actually followed through on. But now, GM is closing four plants that produce SUVs and are also thinking about selling off the Hummer [...]
