EconWatch.com > Action on climate change could help state economy « Michigan Messenger
[Michigan Messenger] Coal-fired power plants generate most of the electricity in Michigan and are the largest emitter of greenhouse gases, so reducing energy use is a powerful way to reduce emissions. Developing new local ways of generating power could also create new jobs.
[Previous] Bush's Footprints On The Economy | 1115.org...
[Next] Digital Economy Bill: Copyright Holders May Have To State Inco...
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Michigan Messenger] Year in Review: Sour economy adds to Mich.'s environmental woes ...: Michigan, surrounded by water and uniquely rich in wetlands, led the nation in establishing its own system for protecting wetlands back .Michigan gets most of its electricity from coal although coal power plants are the biggest emitters of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and are responsible for mercury contamination in water.
[blog.cagle.com - main] Mother Nature Has Her Say | blog.cagle.com - main: As usual, some right-wing fossil fuel aficionado claims himself an expert–It is not about snowstorms, Phil, it is about unusual extremes–that IS the hallmark of Global Warming!!! What do you have to say about all the extreme heat waves populating our summers (and those south of the equator as well–and wildfires in North America and Australia due to drought happen yearly now, and in greater proportions each year, displacing hundreds of thousands of people–they rarely happened, if ever, in the seventies and eighties!!)
[WOODTV.com Blogs » Bill Steffen] WOODTV.com Blogs » Blog Archive » update: 77”³ of snow - schools ...: If we blindly accepted everything coming out of the AGW community, we wouldn’t know about the Hockey Stick forgery, ClimateGate emails, manufactured Antarctic data to show “warming”, terrible temperature station siting and global station dropout, lack of UHI adjustments, NASA data that incorrectly used data for the wrong month, and dozens of other “accidents” that all magically have favored AGW.
[Taber Law Group] Taber Law Group » Blog Archive » October 31, 2009 - Environmental ...: Shipping companies that haul iron ore, coal and other freight on the Great Lakes have enlisted support from leading congressional Democrats to ward off air pollution regulations they say would be a financial burden. A group representing the 55 U.S.-flagged vessels that operate on the lakes is hoping for relief from a House-Senate conference committee expected to meet this week in Washington to negotiate a compromise on a natural resources spending bill.
[Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion] Michigan Inches Forward to Tap Great Lakes' Vast Wind Power ...: If Michigan can plant the first turbine in Great Lakes waters, it could be a big starting point for meeting its clean energy goals, for establishing national leadership on offshore wind farms and for building a new energy economy in the state, just as the auto industry, the foundation of Michigan, dies off.
[Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog] November 2, 2009 - Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions ...: EPA is proposing to tailor the major source applicability thresholds for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and title V programs of the Clean Air Act (CAA or Act) and to set a PSD significance level for GHG emissions. This proposal is necessary because EPA expects soon to promulgate regulations under the CAA to control GHG emissions and, as a result, trigger PSD and title V applicability requirements for GHG emissions.
[Jeff Titterington's Blog] » Increase Productivity: Holster Those Blackberrys Jeff ...: While at certain levels of the organization they can add significant efficiencies (Sales, CRM, service, etc), at the senior executive level, they can lead to reduced efficiencies, create unnecessary stress and lead to “knee-jerk” reactions or non-optimum performance.
[Environmental Law & Climate Change Law Blog] November 9, 2009 - Environmental Law Settlements, Decisions ...: On or about April 30, 2009, Plaintiff filed a complaint alleging that EPA failed to perform a nondiscretionary duty to take action under section 110(k) of the Act on a revision to the state implementation plan (SIP) submitted by the State of California. Specifically, the complaint alleges that EPA failed to take action on two rules amended by the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (””District) on September 21, 2006 and included in a SIP revision submitted to EPA by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on December 29, 2006: Rule 2020 (””Exemptions) and Rule 2020 (””New and Modified Stationary Source Review Rule).
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Economy, EconWatch.com