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GM Scores Global First with New Climate Protection Technology
Washington, DC, July 26, 2010 – General Motors (GM) scored a global first by being the first company worldwide to introduce a climate-friendly refrigerant to replace the super greenhouse gas currently used in auto air conditioning.
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Raising Appliance Efficiency: A Win for Consumers & the Climate
"There are enormous opportunities to use energy more efficiently. Investing in energy efficiency is often far cheaper than expanding the energy supply to meet growing demand," says Lester R. Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, in a recent release, "Raising Appliance Efficiency: A Win for Consumers & the Climate." "Efficiency investments typically yield a high rate of return, saving consumers money, and can help fight climate change by avoiding carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning additional fossil fuels. Just as compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) offer great electricity savings over incandescent light bulbs, a similar range of efficiencies is available for many household appliances, such as refrigerators and home electronics."
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Cutting Black Carbon Soot Could Save Arctic
Washington, DC, July 29, 2010 – Reducing emissions of black carbon, the dark component of soot, could be the best – and perhaps only – way to save the Arctic from warmer temperatures that are melting its snow and ice, according to a study published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Dr. Mark Jacobson of Stanford University studied the short-term effects of reducing black carbon and other greenhouse gases, including CO2 and methane, over a 15-year period of time, with black carbon reductions appearing to be the fastest way to avoid further Arctic ice loss and warming.
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NOAA's Jane Lubchenco on Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning
(Washington) The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is yet another threat to our coastal wetlands and essential waterbodies. Long under increasing stress, our oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes need new coordination and management to protect their health for future generations to enjoy their economic and ecologic benefits.
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Petition Seeks to Correct EPA Greenhouse Gas Calculations Claiming Biomass Burning Is Carbon Neutral
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition Wednesday urging the Environmental Protection Agency to correct scientific errors in how it calculates greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that burn trees and other wood products known as “biomass.” The petition, filed under the federal Data Quality Act, challenges EPA’s unscientific, erroneous assumption that burning trees for energy is “carbon neutral” and has no effect on climate change.
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Lawsuit Filed to Protect Gulf's Whales, Turtles:
Interior Department Failed to Analyze Oil-spill Risk
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Monday against Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for failing to assess possible impacts on the Gulf of Mexico’s endangered whales and sea turtles of a large oil spill resulting from drilling. Government approval of drilling has long operated under the assumption that the risk of a spill was too remote to jeopardize the Gulf’s threatened and endangered species. The lawsuit seeks renewed analysis because clearly massive spills can and do hurt wildlife.
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Regulators Petitioned to Withdraw Approval of 677-mile Ruby Pipeline to Avoid Killing Endangered Fish
Portland, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity Tuesday asked federal regulators to withdraw their approval of the 677-mile “Ruby” natural gas pipeline, which would cut across some of the most pristine and remote lands in Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and California. The pipeline will cross more than 1,000 rivers and streams, affecting crucial habitat for several endangered fish species, and will use more than 400 million gallons of water over the next several years from increasingly dry area.
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Suit Filed to Protect Endangered Species in Arizona, New Mexico National Forests
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— Tuesday the Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service for failing to monitor and protect endangered species and habitat in Arizona and New Mexico national forests. At issue are at least seven threatened or endangered species, including the southwestern willow flycatcher, New Mexico ridge-nosed rattlesnake, Chiricahua leopard frog, Apache trout, loach minnow, Mexican spotted owl and spikedace.
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Volcom is Giving Jeans and the Homeless Another Chance in 2010
(3BLMedia/theCSRfeed) - COSTA MESA, CA - July 27,, 2010 - Volcom, Inc. (NASDAQ: VLCM), the youth clothing innovator, is giving your jeans a chance again in 2010, collecting used jeans to give to the homeless in collaboration with the National Coalition for the Homeless.
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Gibson Guitars Working with Rainforest Alliance on Wood Sourcing Legality
New York - Gibson USA, in an effort to continue and strengthen its commitment and support of sustainability in its wood supply chain announced today a plan to further address legality of such issues with the assistance from the Rainforest Alliance. In late 2009, Gibson facilities in Nashville were investigated by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for allegedly violating the Lacey Act, a law requiring that all wood products and plants imported into the United States come from legal sources.
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