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According to the Renewable Energy Policy Project, more than 20,000 new manufacturing jobs can be created in Ohio in the coming years with investment in and from the “green” economy. Four town hall meetings – on June 23 in Cincinnati, June 24 in Findlay, June 25 in Canton and June 26 in Cleveland – will […]

Yes, gas prices are much higher than they used to be.
And yes, the cost of fuel is impacting the cost of groceries and everything else we buy.
But maybe the news isn’t all that bad.
For starters, most of Europe has always paid WAY more than we do, even with the latest jump in U.S. gas prices.
For […]

Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) has introduced a bill called the Greenhouse Gas Emission Atmospheric Removal (or GEAR) Act. GEAR is designed to provide for bounties to be awarded to whomever accomplishes a specific task first - in this case scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere to counteract pollution from human activity.
“Wherever you find […]

When is this “liberal media” meme going to die? Would a true “liberal media”, that is allegedly trying to cram a liberal POV down the throats of their consumers ever do something like this?
In a long, and interesting speech, he characterized what the U.S. and other industrialized nations need to do to combat global […]

An oft-repeated claim of the right is that government regulation of private industry stifles innovation, and it has a certain ring of truthiness to it. But, as with most things truthy, the truth often doesn’t play along.

Sulfur Dioxide pollution has significant externalities - acid rain, which often presents itself far far away from the […]

Did you ever wonder about who the big polluters are in Ohio? Well, the EPA has provided an easy way to visualize that data in Google Earth. For example, I downloaded the Ohio data for NOx emissions (in tons) and took two images of Ohio, one statewide and another focusing on Franklin County. […]

JSOnline - Nov. 9, 2007 - Frustrated by inaction in Congress on global warming, Midwest governors will convene in Milwaukee next week to craft a regionwide strategy to curb greenhouse gas emissions and boost renewable energy.
The Midwestern Governors Association Energy Summit will take place Wednesday and Thursday at the Pfister Hotel. The event is being […]

It’s nice that they are trying to reduce the environmental impact of these award shows, but they’re right - email would get the job done.
Ricky Gervais was hilarious on [i]Extras[/i], BTW.

The excellent (and must-read) ClimateProgress has a terrific debunking of the “Hummer has a lower lifecycle cost than a Prius” BS. My favorite part:
Their website says the report �does not include issues of gigajuelles [sic!], kW hours or other unfriendly (to consumers) terms. Perhaps, in time, we will release our data in such technical […]

Nothing to see here. Please move along. Resource wars this way –> Business as usual is this way < –
Last autumn-winter season was Europe’s warmest for more than 700 years, researchers say.
The last time Europeans saw similar temperatures to the autumn and winter of 2006-07, they were eating strawberries at Christmas in […]

Wingnut bloggers are always looking for something to call treason. Bi-partisan trips to Syria is one that comes to mind. You want treason? I’ll give you treason:
WASHINGTON, June 14 � Senate Democrats, facing their first significant battle over a wide-ranging bill intended to reduce oil consumption, found themselves blocked by Republicans on […]

The late Rev. Jerry Falwell? He was exactly like a Hummer H2. Oh yes he was. Bloated, arrogant, offensive to millions and deeply wrong in a thousand ways and yet blindly worshipped by a shockingly large and happily uninformed throng of devout minions for no other reason than he was, well, bloated, arrogant and wrong.
Mark […]

Speaking of congressional candidate news, Baker over at OH02 has a post up about Steve Black getting in the race - complete with audio from another one of his exclusive interviews (scooping even other candidates, which twists Jim Parker’s drawers a bit). That’s some Baker right there.
There’s also good stuff over there […]

This is gonna make BizzyBody’s head explode. Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corp. and conservative media tycoon, made the following statement on May 9, 2007:
I�d like to tell you about a new initiative we’re undertaking at News, one that will affect us all.
As many of you know, I grew up in Melbourne, […]

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a plan recently to move fleet fuel economy averages to 35 MPG from the current 25.
The dinosaur auto industry - ever slow to embrace change - was not happy. The thing they don’t get is that there is a reason the Prius had such […]