Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Search Returns - Water and Environment

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MLive.com
LANSING, MI -- Michigan customers could decide how much renewable energy they purchase under a much-anticipated Senate energy plan. The energy proposal was more than a year in the making, and to the disappointment of environmental advocates, ...
The Guardian
The charity estimates the renewable energy schemes planned at 40 sites will save 2,586 tonnes of CO2 a year, and will cut its energy usage by 20% through energy efficiency measures . A big challenge for the trust is the historic and energy inefficient ...
Wall Street Journal
On June 30, one day after the Supreme Court struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation of mercury emissions from power plants, President Obama committed the United States to the goal of generating 20% of its electricity from renewable ...
CleanTechnica
It's an exciting time to work in renewable energy. On a daily basis, we hear about new developments, ground-breaking innovations and unprecedented investment and deployment in the sector. Yesterday we learned that Bill Gates will invest US $2 Billion ...
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HUMAN HABITAT

CBC.ca
New rules that give more power to the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board may not be good for Nova Scotians, theEcology Action Centre says. "In our view, it creates a conflict of interest. The agency has a quasi-promotional role," Mark Butler, ...
Wall Street Journal
Regarding William McGurn's “The Miracle of Pope Francis” (Main Street, June 23): When the New York Times agrees with the pope, the pope should be worried. Stephen J. Soltis. Kansas City, Mo. 4. Save Article; Sign In to Save · Subscribe to WSJ. Text ...
Daily Caller
As a lifelong Catholic with a long stint as the head of an environmental agency second in size only to the EPA, I am deeply troubled by Pope Francis' encyclical “Praise to You, Lord (Laudato, Si'): On Care of Our Common Home.” On the one hand, this ...
TIME
French ecology minister Ségolène Royal called on consumers to stop eating Nutella this week because the cultivation of palm oil, a key ingredient, contributes to deforestation. “We have to replant a lot of trees because there is massive deforestation ...
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WATER POWER

Los Angeles Times
They stuck out like skunks at a drought-resistant garden party. While residentialwater consumers and suppliers throughout California won praise for slashing waterconsumption 29% recently, a handful of smallwater agencies caused bewilderment when ...
13WMAZ
Since Sandy Beach Water Park is located within the Lake Tobesofkee Recreation Area's Sandy Beach Park, visitors must pay the $3 entry fee per person ages 7 and up. That fee must be paid at the entry gate and is not included in your admission fee to the ...
6abc.com
Water main break floods basements in South Philadelphia. VIDEO: Water main break floods basements in South Phila. Some residents of South Philadelphia had a rude awakening on Monday morning thanks to awater main break. Embed.
Yahoo News
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bangkok's tap water supply may run out in a month, as the country waits for long overdue rains to replenish sources depleted by drought and threatened by seawater creep, the chief of the capital's water authority ...

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