oldephartte(in training): 16 Feb - igoogle portal III + water/environment search

SALEM — Lawmakers in the Oregon House voted 39-20 Monday to pass a bill that would double the state's renewable energy mandate and eliminate coal from the state's power mix. The bill heads next to the state Senate, where lawmakers could make ...

How Weather And An 'Interstate of Renewable Energy' Could Save The Climate By 2030

Forbes

Rethinking how energy is delivered to our homes and businesses is not what I knew outgoing American Meteorological Society (AMS) President Dr. Alexander “Sandy” MacDonald to be working on. During my tenure as 2013 AMS President, the recently ...

Renewable energy advocates want to stop new South Nepean power transmission line

CBC.ca

He said he questions whether the estimated $75 million could be better invested in promoting aggressive energy conservation methods by builders in the new communities as well as more renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy. Eggertson ...

Flawed renewable energy schemes have to change

Belfast Telegraph

The planning of the incentives, through both the mechanism to underpin renewable electricity supplies (using Renewable Obligation Certificates) and also for the provision of heat from renewables (the Renewable Heat Incentives), are both costing ...

Human Habitat

ecology water energy

Scientist: Nitrogen threatens high-elevation ecology

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

CARBONDALE — Fewer alpine wildflowers and shifts in the biology of mountain lakes are among the changes occurring in Colorado's high country due to increasing levels of atmospheric nitrogen, a scientist studying the issue says. Fortunately, the ...

Existential Questions in Ecology – three simple questions to ask yourself in ...

PLoS Blogs (blog)

But even before the monkey sh*t hits the fan, there is an incredibly common data-related question that most plant ecologists face: if I want to record the size of a seedling in my experiment, but the seedling never germinated in the first place, should ...

Burnaby's Central Park is safe: ecology society

Burnaby Now

The Stanley Park Ecology Society (SPES), the group that handles the coyote education program on behalf of the City of Burnaby, is reminding residents Central Park is a safe place. Photograph By File. Despite a recent incident involving an attack by a ...

Rampal power plant to be commissioned despite risk to ecology

Bangladesh News 24 hours

Rampal power plant to be commissioned despite risk to ecology. Staff Correspondent, bdnews24.com. Published: 2016-02-15 22:01:10.0 BdST Updated: 2016-02-15 23:07:49.0 BdST. File Photo ...

Water Power

water floods pollution

Streets of New Rochelle, Pelham flooded after massive water main break ...

WABC-TV

The good news is that the water company, Suez Water has been able to isolate businesses and buildings that are just right near the particular water main. Most of the city has their water back at this point, but they still need to get underground, and ...

Proposal would shift bullet train funding for use on new water projects

Los Angeles Times

The state's powerful agriculture industry and its political allies are gathering signatures for a November ballot initiative that would grab bond money earmarked for California's bullet train and use it instead for new water projects. Supporters ...

State: Lake Okeechobee water to be sent south to Everglades

The News-Press

Florida is doing something many said couldn't be done: Releasing water from Lake Okeechobee to Everglades National Park in order to alleviate record flooding conditions during the dry season. The releases, allowed under emergency conditions, will allow ...

Who's to blame for the Flint water crisis?

PolitiFact

As Flint, Mich., prepares to host a Democratic presidential debate on March 6, the candidates are talking about the city's tainted-water crisis. Hillary Clinton, for example, mentioned the city in her concession speech on the night of the New Hampshire ...