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Opinion: It Takes a Nation to Save a Planet
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- The United Nations named 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, but the past year has proved to be a tough one for planet Earth. Last winter, negotiators returned from Copenhagen having failed to reach a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gases. In the spring and summer, the Gulf of Mexico was hit with the largest oil spill in history, due in part to lax oversight by regulatory agencies. This fall, diplomats met in Japan to discuss the future of the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity -- but produced few concrete proposals to stem the rapid disappearance of ...
State of Texas Sues BP Over Air Pollution
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe state of Texas has filed suit against BP and, no, it's not related to the oil spill in the Gulf. The Lone Star State's attorney general accuses the oil giant of illegally emitting nearly 500,000 pounds of air pollutants at its Texas City refinery for more than a month in the spring of this year, The Associated Press reported. Texas blames shoddy operation and maintenance on the part of BP for what the state called 46 days of illegal pollution at the facility near Houston. The state's Commission on Environmental Quality accused BP of multiple "egregious" violations and said the company ...
California Considering Fuel Standards That Favor Petroleum
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyThe California Air Resources Board met today to consider methods of evaluating fuels, and many alternative fuel proponents are crying "Foul!"At issue are two competing methods of "carbon scoring" petroleum and alternative fuels. The first takes into account only the fuel's chemistry and means of production. It is he second method that's causing controversy: (from Andrew Gumbel at HuffPo)The second choice is to try to throw in considerations of broader economic and geopolitical realities. That's not a bad idea in and of itself. It's hard to assess the total environmental cost of importing oil ...
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