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[I'll explain it when you are older.] EPA and Laziness: Mobile sources accounted for 37% of the volatile organic compounds, 49% of the nitrogen oxides, 81% of the carbon monoxide, and 27% of the anthropogenic particulate matter in the US in 1995. In the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, the US Environmental Protection Agency outlined tighter standards for reducing emissions from mobile sources such as reducing the volatility of gasoline and requiring automakers to ensure that fewer fumes escape the gas tank while refueling.

[WorldChanging: Another World Is Here] This Week in Sustainable Transportation: The World Meteorological Organization; and the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research&mash;agreed that 2005 was either the hottest or second-hottest year since the start of record-keeping in the late 1880s.

[After Gutenberg] Better the Trenches You Know: Well, yes, right now it is, although as part of an energy policy to reduce dependency upon foreign oil, there are federal incentives for using biodiesel. And, as interest in, and acceptance of, biofuels intensifies due to a decreasing difference between costs, there also are more efforts at large scale production, more efficient production, and novel ways to provide the product.

[Politics in Mudville] Bush's Crimes Against Nature: gave a stunning lecture on how the Bush Administration has gutted the environmental laws which had protected our American lands, air, water, and minerals for hundreds of years. Big lumber, mining, oil, electricity, and chemical industries literally bought the presidency

Dean Nation: Most outsiders who have run for president have been very captivating personalities and have often run as third party candidates. Ross Perot and Ralph Nader immediately spring to mind. Conventional wisdom would have included Pat Robertson in this camp of running a personality driven campaign long on vision and short on execution. But this was not

[Obsidian Wings] Problems With the Environmental Movement: I do think there is a bit of blame-the victim in your piece, Charles, because there has been an orchestrated effort by extreme rightists to mislabel environmentalists as anti-gun, or even as "ecoterrorists". I wish I could provide concrete evidnce of this, but I'm at work and don't have the time.

Dean Nation: The environment movement has already won. Just as the civil rights movement has already won the war in bringing equality to minorities (for the most part), so has the environmental movement in its major battles (for the most part).

[The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal] The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen... : ::: ENN Daily Newsletter - Wednesday, December 1, 2004 ::: Coral Thrives on Sunken WWII Ships in Gulf TUSCALOOSA, Ala. A University of Alabama scientist and other researchers have found coral growing at extreme depths in the Gulf of Mexico -- on several ships sunk during World War II by Nazi submarines.

[meat-eating leftist] Crimes Against Nature: Not exactly timely, but pertinent nonetheless. One year ago today, Rolling Stone magazine ran an article called Crimes Against Nature by Robert F.

[Howling At A Waning Moon] Group Cites Bush Administration Hostility to... : Link: Bush Greenwatch Print Page. Note: This is the third of three articles on the Bush Administration's little-noted strategy of overturning and environmental protections actions initiated by state and local governments.] While the environmental movement has been energetically battling the Bush Administration's relentless rollback of federal

[Jalopnik.com] Jalopnik - epa: EPA officials say the increase in light-truck sales, in the form of SUVs, is the root cause (ya think?), though average mileage hasn’t been below 20.6 mpg since 1997. The results leave plenty of room for environmentalists to lament their lost ground, and for free-market petrolheads to flaunt environmentalists’

[Iwantcleanair.com] the Clean Air blog: Scientists at the Environmental Protection Agency have recommended that the national standards governing the allowable levels of soot pollution be  strengthened, but EPA Administrator Johnson is ignoring these recommendations and has instead proposed exempting agriculture and mining operations from the requirements of the law, and weakening critical air quality standards for cities and towns of under 100,000 people.

[Qualityweenie.mu.nu] Quality Weenie: And to top it off yesterday I am told that management feels they might have made a mistake in blaming us for the problems as the Japanese Quality Manager has reallized that we have way to much work for just 2 Engineers to handle. They said everything is fine now and they probably won't be firing anyone.

[Wowthisisslow.blogspot.com] I'll explain it when you are older.: In the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, the US Environmental Protection Agency outlined tighter standards for reducing emissions from mobile sources such as reducing the volatility of gasoline and requiring automakers to ensure that fewer fumes escape the gas tank while refueling. Emissions control technology such as better catalytic converters has reduced emissions per vehicle by 60-80% since the 1960’s.

[Ucsusa.org] Clean Vehicles Update - 5/2005: More than 20,000 UCS activists wrote to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi asking him to uphold his nation’s leadership on climate change and pressure Japan’s automakers—including Honda, Toyota, and Nissan—to drop off the California lawsuit. UCS also joined eight other national organizations in the United States and Japan, including Friends of the Earth Japan, Greenpeace Japan, and the World Wide Fund for Nature Japan, in a letter to Koizumi on the eve of Kyoto’s entry into force.

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