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As a result of the disruption in the supply of fuel caused by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has temporarily waived reformulated gasoline (RFG) requirements to allow the sale of conventional gasoline (CG) in all the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland. This latest waiver also extends the [...]

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Cross posted from The Great Beyond Criminal damage in the name of climate change is not a criminal offence, according to a shock ruling from a British court. A jury yesterday acquitted six Greenpeace activists who claimed that the threat of global warming was a ‘lawful excuse’ for the damage they caused while protesting [...]

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Hard to believe: The long-standing notion that old forests are carbon neutral – that is, that from a certain age forests cease to absorb and accumulate carbon – has its origin from a mere decade worth of data from one single site. Although timidly questioned every so often, this apparently wrong postulate has prevailed [...]

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Check out my story today on NRCC for details on the IPCC elections held last week. News in brief: Rajendra Pachauri is chairman again - he had no contenstants for the chief job on the next assessment report, having overseen the UN climate panel’s transformation to Nobel-winning semi-household name last year. But new co-chairs [...]

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Green Jobs – A report out yesterday from the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and commissioned by the Center for American Progress, says that a $100 billion, two-year national investment in renewable energy, mass transportation, and a “smart grid” for electricity, would yield two million new jobs, with [...]

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