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Biodiesel Bulletin - April 2, 2007
Cummins Approves B20 Biodiesel Blends for Engines
NextEnergy Biodiesel Summit Sets Goals for Research
Don’t Get Left Behind on Fuel Quality
National Trucking Company’s Biodiesel Study Shows Positive Results
AFVI National Conf. in Full Swing; Local Public Welcome on Wed.
2007 to be a Bumper Crop Year for Biodiesel Legislation
Earthrace Record Attempt Continues Despite Tragedy
Houston Power Plant First in U.S. to Run on Biodiesel
Biodiesel U: Collegiate Exposure to the Alt Fuel...
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 11:04pm PDT
Supreme Court votes 5-4 empowering the Clean Air Act
The Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling declared that carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. There were laws in the books that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the White House chose to use the lesser degree favoring not to use stringent measures and take measures that were dubious in nature. This ruling will change and help curtail carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases linked to standards. For sure it will help us here in California and San Franci...
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 7:48pm PDT
Millions Threatened by Climate Change
3-20-07 Prison Dispatch
Earlier this year the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in their strongest language yet, attributed the earth’s current climate change to human activity. The report, the first of four, has lead to near daily news stories on global warming....
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 12:03am PDT
Public Radio Airs Fox News Style Debate Against Climate Change
On Saturday, March 31st I happened to be listening to KQED when they aired a debate by the organization Intelligence Squared on the motion “Global Warming is Not a Crisis.” The "debate" set as a reference frame that global warming is not a crisis and then had climate scientists debate a popular novel writer, Michael Crichton, to argue that it was a crisis. The moderator brought up misleading evidence of past "scientific" fads like a news media hype briefly in the late 70s that the world was c...
Posted: Sat, Mar 31, 2007 3:04pm PDT
Capitalism and the Consequences of Biofuels
In today’s world the use of biofuels has led to horrific consequences for the people of the world and the environment. For example The division of the world -- between a handful of rich countries consuming most of the world's resources and the rest of tha planet, has meant that the growing of crops for fuel—mostly for export to Europe, Japan and the United States—is being done on large-scale plantations in the third world. In order to make room for these plantations ancient forests are bein...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 12:50pm PDT
Buffalo Field Campaign - Update from the field - 3/29/2007
"The slaughter of bison is not required in order to manage the threat of disease. Slaughter is not management. It is an approach from a bygone era and has no place in a time of rapid scientific and economic progress. We are capable of more ingenuity and more compassion if we are willing to try."
- From the Opening Remarks of U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, II, Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Oversight Hearing on Yel...
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 10:05pm PDT
Will Al Gore Deliver Us to Solartopia?
l Gore has leapt to center stage with well-founded concerns about global warming. He has been gratefully successful in publicizing the fact that there is a virtual library of irrefutable evidence that carbon dioxide levels are rapidly rising in our atmosphere, that this is being caused by human beings, and that the potential impacts are catastrophic....
Posted: Wed, Mar 28, 2007 6:18am PDT
Clandestines Re-loaded: Leaving This Stage of History
1. The Quiet Apocalypse of Rising Tides
Climate change is everywhere, and the somewhat momentous report released February 3 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that climate change is man-made, and unstoppable. The 21-page report, described as conservative by the IPCC itself, says man-made emissions of greenhouse gases are to blame for heat waves, floods and heavy rains, droughts and stronger storms (particularly in the Atlantic Ocean), melting ice-caps and rais...
Posted: Sun, Mar 25, 2007 6:47pm PDT
Transmisión en vivo: Camina La Otra Campaña a pesar de los ataques paramilitares
* Inicio del segundo recorrido del EZLN con La Otra Campaña * Transmisión de radio en vivo desde San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas....
Posted: Sun, Mar 25, 2007 4:44pm PDT
Upcoming green scare hearings
· May 15 - Oral arguments for Terrorism Enhancement
· May 22 - Cooperating Defendant Stanislas Meyerhoff's sentencing. 9 am
· May 24 - Cooperating Defendant Kevin Tubbs's sentencing. 9 am
· May 25 - Cooperating Defendant Chelsea Gerlach's sentencing. 9 am
· May 29 - Cooperating Defendant Darren Thurston's sentencing. 9 am
· May 31 - Cooperating Defendant Suzanne Savoie's sentencing. 9 am
· May 31 - Cooperating Defendant Kendall Tankersley's sentencing. 1 pm
· June 1 - Joyanna Zacher ...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 9:41pm PDT
Congressional hearings detail political tampering in US climate research
Hearings resumed March 19 in the US Congress on charges of political interference in governmental climate research. The evidence and testimony further demonstrate the lengths the Bush administration, at the behest of the oil industry, has gone to suppress scientists’ findings and confuse public opinion of climate change....
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 8:07am PDT
India's Uranium Nightmare
The Indo-U.S. nuclear deal may be considered groundbreaking and historic by many in India and the United States, but this euphoria must not shroud the misery of thousands of people suffering the effects of uranium mining in India due to poor technical and management practices in existing mines....
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 7:08am PDT
PAN ALERT: Ask Congress to fund new initiatives in the Farm Bill
Take Action Today to ensure that there is sufficient funding authorized in the 2007 Farm Bill to protect our environment, achieve energy independence and ensure sustainable, healthy food to all Americans....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 11:15pm PDT
CONGRESS INVESTIGATES YELLOWSTONE BISON SLAUGHTER
WASHINGTON, D.C. On Tuesday, at the request of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) representatives will testify before Congress on the status of Yellowstone's wild bison....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:25pm PDT
Are you a Friend of the Sea? SMS check seafood before you buy it!
FRIEND OF THE SEA, a project for certification and promotion of sustainable seafood, allows now almost anybody around the world to obtain via SMS real-time seafood environmental status information, before purchase....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 5:27pm PDT
NASA Climatologist Predicts Disastrous Sea Level Rise
In an interview on Australian ABC Television program, The 7.30 Report, James Hansen, a prominent NASA climatologist, predicted the liklihood that the earth will pass a tipping point resulting in Sea Level Rise of up to a metre every 20 years. The trigger for this is an extra degree of global warming resulting in the runaway melting of the Greenland and West Antarctic Ice sheets....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 8:54am PDT
Troop Withdrawal Timetables Divide Democrats
The campaigning for the 2008 election is off to an early start and the Democrats in both Houses of Congress are using the Iraq War for political leverage to boaster early public support; however Democrats are deeply divided on troop withdrawal timetables, ranging from mid 2007 to various open-ended commitments to continue the war and occupation beyond 2008....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:45pm PDT
Gasoline: More Pain At The Pumps
Within the past five months, since November 2006, the average driver is paying an additional $42 per month for gasoline and more than $100 per household. Families are finding it difficult to meet household expenses and are cutting back on weekend activities and vacation plans. The higher gasoline prices are driving up inflation nationally and are affecting the cost on consumer goods and services....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 9:34pm PDT
PG&E's Love Affair with Nuclear Absent from PR Campaign
This speech was read as public comment at the March 15, 2007 California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) hearing regarding PG&E's $1.6 billion rate hike proposal. It criticized the fact that it pours millions into nuclear energy and not a dollar towards wind or solar energy, and further highlighted green alternatives to PG&E....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 4:28pm PDT
BFC Update from the Field - 03/15/07
In West Yellowstone, there are still no buffalo outside of the Park. The few far-away bulls we were monitoring are out of sight now, with portions of the Park closed to all human activities to protect waking grizzly bears....
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 1:56pm PDT