e2 - Eye on Earth
by James Russell on November 9, 2007 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) on its proposal to contribute $100 million toward a new plant that will convert coal to liquid fuels.
by Janet Sawin on November 7, 2007 While some of the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs) hem and haw about how to—or even if to—limit their contributions to climate change, at least two small countries are blazing trails for the world to follow.
by Alana Herro on November 5, 2007 Passengers riding on certain buses in Scotland will soon be able to trade in their used cooking oil for reduced fares.
by Jessica Hanson on November 2, 2007 That sneaking suspicion you get every time you arrive at the grocery
checkout counter is right: food generally costs more than it did just
12 months ago.
by Janet Sawin on October 31, 2007 In July, Germany’s Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety released a draft progress report on the country’s Renewable Energy Sources Act.
by Alana Herro on October 29, 2007 A recent study found that residents of Canadian communities who were exposed to emissions from polluting industries such as oil refineries, metal smelters, and pulp mills gave birth to more females than males, a reversal of the normal sex ratio.
by Alana Herro on October 26, 2007 As Tata Motors, one of Asia’s leading automakers, prepares to tap into India’s middle-class market by releasing the "world’s cheapest car” in 2008, other countries with a long history of car dependence are grappling with ways to limit the social, health, and environmental costs of motorized transport.
by Alana Herro on October 24, 2007 For the first time, a U.S. government agency has cited carbon dioxide emissions as the reason for rejecting an air-quality permit to build coal-fired power plants.
by Alana Herro on October 22, 2007
The so-called “BRIC” countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—all scored in the top 11 in a recent ranking of countries’ environmental commitments.
by Jessica Hanson on October 19, 2007 From Illinois corn to Kansas wheat, U.S. grain crops are experiencing their fastest price hike since 1990. The rise in prices is being felt not only at the grocery store, but
also in international food policy, as the costs of items commonly purchased for U.S. food aid programs have
increased sharply
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