US Trade Group Wants Stanky, Formaldehyde-Laced FEMA Trailers Sent To Haiti

“Pimp my FEMA trailer.” Image credit: SwampPlot.com FEMA has put the notorious Katrina Trailers, some 100,000 of them, up for auction; and the bidding has apparently driven down prices for the new models. Hence, lobbyists for the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association have suggested sending empty Katrina trailers to Haiti as a ‘humanitarian gesture.’ The Haitian government, as stressed and desperate as it is, isn’t falling for it. Per a CBS station , ” Haitian Culture and Co..

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Joliet Illinois Wants To Dump More Radium On Open Lands

Subsurface injection of biosolids, aka “sludge.” Image credit :CCUA.info This strange tale is a synopsis of a lengthy story related by the Chicago Tribune . Dozens of municipalities in northeastern Illinois, including such Chicago suburbs as Joliet, Bartlett, and Batavia, are required to remove radium before distributing the water to customers.

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Obama Takes It to House Republicans, Talks Energy Policy

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Coalition Says MN Climate Solution Includes Nukes

The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.  Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state’s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. The state that enacted one of the nation’s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear power in 2010.  A coalition of interest groups wants to repeal Minnesota’s 15-year-old moratorium on new nuclear plants. Like pro-nuke interests elsewhere, the Minnesota coalition is arguing that nuclear power is a clean solution to climate change problems.

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Coalition Says MN Climate Solution Includes Nukes

The Prairie Island nuclear plant at Red Wing, Minnesota, on the Mississippi River.  Nuclear power advocates want to repeal the state’s 15-year-old ban on new nuclear plants. The state that enacted one of the nation’s most farsighted clean energy laws in 2007 may be a battleground over nuclear power in 2010.  A coalition of interest groups wants to repeal Minnesota’s 15-year-old moratorium on new nuclear plants.

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Investors Getting Serious in London — $1 Billion Renewable Energy Fund

A London-based green investment firm, Earth Capital Partners ( ECP ), aiming to create a €750 million ($1 billion) renewable energy fund, announced this last week that it had reached its first round fund-raising target. By November 2010, it hopes to reach its total goal of €750 million

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Robot Corps to Repair Nation’s Water Mains

With over two million miles of aging water mains to maintain, the U.S. is on the brink of a water supply precipice.  A modest project seeded with just a few thousand dollars could go a long way to resolving the crisis, by developing robotic water main repair devices that can work much faster than human crews. The real kicker is the ability of small robotic devices to reach inside small pipes as well as the larger human-sized water mains.  Water supply robots are already in use for inspection purposes.  It’s a more sustainable approach that would practically eliminate the need to excavate thousands of miles of water mains for repair or replacement.  In turn, that would make a significant dent in carbon emissions from earth-moving machines and other utility streetwork

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Carbon Capture & Storage Projects to be Excluded Under Copenhagen?

In a blow to the deal struck between the Obama administration and India during pre-Copenhagen visits, in which the President arranged for the transfer of innovative new clean coal technologies ; Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) might be removed from the list of technologies that industrial countries can invest in to reduce worldwide emissions to meet Kyoto Accord goals. This comes at a time when Kyoto Accord requirements have prompted serious investigations (unlike the always “ Future Gen” under the previous US administration) into CCS that are actually starting to produce results. A Canadian trial for tapping into gas from un-mined coal-fields to run gas power plants, instead of mining and burning the coal is showing results in Alberta.

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‘Green Patriarch’ Takes Enviro Message Online, to US

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sprinkles Holy Water over the Mississippi River. Photo by GANP/Dimitris Panagos from Ecumenical Patriarchate via Flickr. A 69-year-old man with a long white beard and big black robes may seem like an unlikely role model for teenagers, but Greek Orthodox youth in the United States apparently found Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ’s message on the environment “pretty cool.”..

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GOP Rep: "We Hunt Liberal, Tree-Hugging Democrats"

Photo via Fox News While hunters, sportsmen, and trappers across the country are actually helping ‘liberal democrats’ to pass climate legislation, GOP Representative Gregg Harper is talking about murdering them. When Politico asked him what the Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus does–Harper is a member–he replied, “We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does seem like a waste of good ammunition.”…

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