News Roundup
‘When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.’
via BP, Coast Guard Officers Block Journalists From Filming Oil-Covered Beach VIDEO.
‘Reuters – This year is on track to be the hottest ever after data published by America’s climate agency this week showed record global temperatures in April and the first four months of 2010.’
via 2010 on track to be hottest ever: U.S. climate data | Reuters.
From the Videographer: ‘See the history of how big oil is destroying our planet… set to Hayley Sales’ song “Not In His Garden”. Check her out at www.hayleysales.com and www.twitter.com/hayleysales‘
‘Two of the lighting industry’s three biggest manufacturers, Osram Sylvania and Philips, plan to sell energy-efficient LED bulbs this year that can replace a 60-watt bulb, the most commonly used incandescent lamp.’
via LED Bulbs for the Home Near the Marketplace – NYTimes.com.
‘US President Barack Obama has vowed to end the “cosy relationship” between oil companies and US regulators in the light of the Gulf of Mexico disaster.’
via BBC News – Barack Obama: No more cosying up to oil industry.
‘Solar power could make up as much as a quarter of the world’s total electricity production by 2050 with the use of photovoltaic and concentrating solar power technologies, the International Energy Agency said.’
‘Yesterday the USDA’s Animal Plant Health Inspection Service issued its decision to approve the mass-release of over a quarter of a million GE eucalyptus trees across seven states in the U.S. South Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, despite overwhelming public opposition.’
via Global Justice Ecology Project: GlobalJusticeEcology.org , Hinesburg, VT.
‘Senators John F. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, presented their long-delayed proposal to address global warming and energy Wednesday afternoon. They are calling it the American Power Act.’
via Senate Climate Bill Makes Its Debut – Green Blog – NYTimes.com.
‘(Reuters) – Solar power can provide up to a quarter of the world’s electricity by 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday, but it needs government lifelines in the next decade until it can compete with conventional power.’
via Solar can provide 22 percent world’s power by 2050: IEA | Reuters.
’05-07 19:53 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — In an unusually strong attack on politically powerful deniers of global warming, 255 members of the National Academy of Sciences, including 32 from Northern California, have charged that opponents are using “McCarthy-like tactics” against legitimate climate scientists.’