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Mixing Oil and Water
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 8.27.2008
On Aug. 6, the California Coastal Commission approved a desalination plant at Carlsbad in San Diego County, a region with severe water needs in normal times and hard hit by the current drought. The $300-million for-profit venture by the Poseidon Resources Corporation aims to produce as much as 50 million gallons of fresh water each day, about nine percent of the water San Diego County uses. The approval marks a change for the Coastal Commission, an unelected body usually in the business of rejection.
Wind Power Pollution
Submitted by Jack Sullivan on 8.25.2008
They say let us clear the air together, do they mean let us befoul the North Country? The wind industry's development of a giant industrial complex aka a "wind farm" produces large amounts of greenhouse gases as well as significant mercury pollution.
Little Rhetoric Riding Hood
Submitted by George F. Will on 8.24.2008
Barack Obama has made his economic thinking excruciatingly clear, so it also is clear that his running mate should be Rumpelstiltskin. He spun straw into gold, a skill an Obama administration will need to fulfill its fairy-tale promises.
Brown Blocks Bottled Water Over Global Warming
Submitted by Thomas Tanton on 8.14.2008
On July 29, California’s Attorney General Jerry Brown said he will sue to block a proposed water-bottling operation in Northern California, unless its effects on global warming are evaluated.
Environmentalists Oppose New CO2 Scrubber Idea
Submitted by Krystle Russin on 8.1.2008
Scientists at Columbia University are developing a carbon dioxide (CO2) scrubber device that removes one ton of CO2 from the air every day.
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