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Stop wrangling over global warming and instead reduce fossil-fuel use for the sake of the global economy. That's the message from two scientists, one from the University of Washington and one from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who say in the current issue of the journal Nature (Jan. 26) that the economic pain of a flattening oil supply will trump the environment as a reason to curb the use of fossil fuels. "Given our fossil-fuel dependent economies, this is more urgent...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) today changed its name to the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) at an event where speakers said U.S. petroleum refiners and petrochemical manufacturers can create jobs, strengthen America's economic and national security, and continue serving consumers for many decades. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120125/MM41823LOGO) "This...
In pursuit of riches and energy over the last 5,000 years, humans have released into the environment 385,000 tons of mercury, the source of numerous health concerns, according to a new study that challenges the idea that releases of the metal are on the decline. The report appears in ACS' journal Environmental Science & Technology. David Streets and colleagues explain that humans put mercury into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and through mining and industrial processes....
MONTREAL, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - North America's 3,000 fossil fuel-burning power plants continue to produce two-thirds of the region's electricity and, at the same time, generate the majority of certain harmful air pollutants and emit more greenhouse gases than any other industrial sector. North American Power Plant Air Emissions, a new report and database released today by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), provides detailed information on the electric...
Rice researchers show ocean could have contained enough methane to cause drastic climate change The release of massive amounts of carbon from methane hydrate frozen under the seafloor 56 million years ago has been linked to the greatest change in global climate since a dinosaur-killing asteroid presumably hit Earth 9 million years earlier. New calculations by researchers at Rice University show that this long-controversial scenario is quite possible. Nobody knows for sure what started...
A Political Parade With No One Marching Behind the Banner? Even Among Republicans and Tea Party Supporters, Little Evidence of "Old Fuel Constituency" Seen; Focus on Wind and Solar Strongly Preferred by Public Over More Nuclear, Coal and Oil. WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- If Congress thinks it has found a winning issue in trashing wind and solar power ... and if the Obama Administration believes that voters will reward it for boosting coal, gas and...
Urge Science Review Panel to Consider National Carbon Accounting, New Information WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Alliance of Forest Owners President and CEO, Dave Tenny, issued the following statement regarding comments submitted yesterday to the EPA's Science Advisory Board Review Panel, convened to conduct a science and technical review of carbon emissions from biomass energy production: "We are pleased that the EPA has appropriately deferred its regulation...
It is difficult to measure accurately each nation's contribution of carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere. Carbon is extracted out of the ground as coal, gas, and oil, and these fuels are often exported to other countries where they are burned to generate the energy that is used to make products. In turn, these products may be traded to still other countries where they are consumed. A team led by Carnegie's Steven Davis, and including Ken Caldeira, tracked and quantified this supply chain...
ForestEthics Runs USA Today Ads, Organizes 'Banana' Protests in Multiple Cities Days Before D.C. Protests Over Pipeline Decision SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Dole and Chiquita were greeted this morning with full-page ads in USA Today calling on the companies to reject extreme fossil fuels from Canada's Tar Sands and to embrace cleaner transportation fuel options. View the ads here:...
Research at Greenland and Antarctic shows decline in methane and ethane levelsRecent data from NSF-funded research in both Greenland and Antarctica demonstrate that fossil-fuel related emissions of both methane and ethane, two of the most abundant hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, declined at the end of the twentieth century, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal Nature.The causes of the decline in methane emission rates to the atmosphere have been puzzling scientists for some...
