Tag Archives: environment

Wal-Mart Socked With Huge Eco-Fine

Wal-Mart has agreed to pay an $82M fine for improper disposal of hazardous wastes such as fertilizer and bleach. The cases were filed by the DOJ in California and Missouri. As part of the California plea agreement, Wal-Mart is set to pay a $40 million criminal fine and to pay $20 million to fund community service projects including helping U.S. …

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Obama Slams Climate Change Deniers

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Environmentalists Will Kill Billions

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Bicyclists Pollute The Air

“You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike. But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of ;carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually …

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Environmentalists Are Religious Crazies

Says the most un-self-aware crackpot ever.

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35K Rally In DC Against Climate Change

Teabaggers have poured into the YouTube comments.

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Bloomberg Calls For Styrofoam Ban

During his final State Of The City address, today NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg will call for a ban on the usage of styrofoam containers by restaurants, food carts, vending machines, or any business that holds a city license to sell beverages or meals. Via Consumerist: “One product that is virtually impossible to recycle and never bio-degrades is styrofoam,” Bloomberg is …

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On The Rising Seas

Today the New York Times posted interactive maps of a dozen coastal cities to demonstrate the flooding that will take place if the seas continue to rise due to climate change. Above is their prediction of what the New York City area might look like if the seas rise as much as 25 feet in coming centuries. (Miami would be …

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Morning View – Green DNC

The Democrats tout this thing as the “greenest convention ever.” To that end the usual garbage cans have been removed and replaced with the above, much to the confusion of many attendees who often stand frozen, trash in hand, while considering the disposal options. (This seems to greatly amuse the arena staff in particular.) Many of the trash stations are …

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Today In Global Warming Denial

Fischer links to this blog: Together, the 48 contiguous states are comprised of 2,959,064 square miles (which excludes bodies of water). There are 640 acres in a mile. There are about 4,840 square yards per acre. To calculate the number of square yards in the United States, we multiply 640 * 4,840 * 2,959,064, which yields 9.17 trillion square yards …

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Gay Ranger Stars In Florida Parks Ad

Fort Lauderdale park ranger and environmentalist Mark Foley is starring in a new state tourism ad promoting Florida’s park system, which regrettably also includes a glimpse of Governor Skeletor. You may recall that I first mentioned Foley two years and pointed out that he is not to be confused with Florida’s other gay Mark Foley, who resigned from Congress in …

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July Was The Hottest Month In History

It wasn’t your imagination. July was the hottest month the continental US has seen since records began, federal scientists have said. Last month, the average temperature was 77.6F (25.3C), hotter than the old record from July 1936, during a period of severe drought known in the US as the Dust Bowl. The last 12 months were the warmest since modern …

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Federal Natural Disaster Areas Of 2012

Unreal. Source.

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Headline Of The Day

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The Ecology Of Disease

The New York Times has published an interesting look at how humankind’s treatment of the environment has unleashed dozens of new diseases in the last century. Diseases have always come out of the woods and wildlife and found their way into human populations — the plague and malaria are two examples. But emerging diseases have quadrupled in the last half-century, …

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AP Report On Global Warming

According to the Associated Press, “this U.S. summer is what global warming looks like.” The usual disclaimers about weather vs climate are at the link. If you want a glimpse of some of the worst of global warming, scientists suggest taking a look at U.S. weather in recent weeks. Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges. …

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Warmest 12-Month Periods Since 1895

What do all the time periods listed above have in common? And here’s more about the last 12 months: The past twelve months were the warmest twelve months in U.S. history, said NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) on Tuesday, in their monthly “State of the Climate” report. Temperatures in the contiguous U.S. during May 2011 – April 2012 broke …

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Billboard Of The Day

Andrew Sullivan points us to a new campaign by wingnuts intent on making villains out of anybody who believes global warming is real. The billboard series features Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber; Charles Manson, a mass murderer; and Fidel Castro, a tyrant. Other global warming alarmists who may appear on future billboards include Osama bin Laden and James J. Lee …

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Environmentalists Want America To Fail

This bit of crackpottery is from some astroturf group out of Florida. I haven’t been able to figure out who’s really behind it yet, but I’m betting on Big Sugar or somebody similar.

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