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Cleaner Environment Not Necessarily in the Bag for California
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 5.21.2008 3:00:00 PM
SACRAMENTO – Tomorrow the Assembly Appropriations Committee considers AB 2058, “Reducing Plastic Bags,” by Lloyd E. Levine, a Sherman Oaks Democrat, which imposes on consumers a recycling “fee” of $.25 per bag. The committee, and all Californians, should also consider some facts about plastic bags and their alternatives.
Is the Answer Blowing in the Wind? Or in Government Energy Subsidies?
Submitted by Amy Kaleita, Ph.D on 5.20.2008
Over the last decade, wind energy capacity in the United States has been increasing at a rapid rate. This surge is partly influenced by the attractive “green” aspects of wind energy, namely that it is carbon-free and nearly limitless. Something else, however, is also driving the surge in capacity – tax breaks to wind energy producers. These subsidies make it difficult to know if, or when, this industry will be able to stand on its own.
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators: 2008 Report
Submitted by Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D on 5.19.2008
As this report and others like it have explored for more than a decade, environmental improvement in the United States has been substantial and dramatic, almost across the board.
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