Posted on: March 27th, 2009 by Ed Ring In a briefing last week General Motors reaffirmed their commitment to the launch of the Chevy Volt by late 2010. The primary purpose of this briefing was to discuss the benefits of lithium battery technology as well as the reasons for their choice of LG Chem to produce the first generation of batteries for the Volt. Several points are worth noting: GM. . . CONTINUE
updated 2011-08-13 Buckeye Bullet : The Fastest Electric Car Ohio State’s 400 MPH Buckeye Bullet 3 to Attempt Electric Vehicle Speed Record 08/11/11 Last year Ohio State’s streamlined Buckeye Bullet supercar made headlines as it shattered the world speed record for an electric vehicle by clocking in a blistering 291 miles per hour. As if that feat wasn’t impressive enough, the team is back this year with plans for their. . . CONTINUE
Another $5 billion giveaway by the Bush administration By Ben Armbruster on Jan 30th, 2009 Bloomberg reports that, according to recently released IRS data, “the average tax rate paid by the richest 400 Americans fell by a third to 17.2 percent through the first six years of the Bush administration and their average income doubled to $263.3 million.” Much of their income came from capital gains resulting from the Bush. . . CONTINUE
Bush’s $350 billion corporate “giveaway”: Bailout to Banks, Not Borrowers By MIKE McINTIRE, nytimes Published: January 17, 2009 A Congressional oversight panel reported on Jan. 9 that it found no evidence the bailout program had been used to prevent foreclosures, raising questions about whether the Treasury has complied with the law’s requirement that it develop a “plan that seeks to maximize assistance for homeowners.” An overwhelming majority of banks see. . . CONTINUE
EPA against limiting rocket fuel ingredient in water — CNN September 22, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there’s no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country. EPA reached the conclusion in a draft regulatory document not yet made public but reviewed Monday by The Associated Press. Jeremy Symons, who represented the Environmental. . . CONTINUE
Asian soot, smog may boost global warming in US by 3 degrees in 50 years By SETH BORENSTEIN | AP Science Writer, September 4, 2008 WASHINGTON (AP) _ Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday. These. . . CONTINUE
More evidence of global warming. By Charmaine Noronha | The Associated Press, September 4, 2008 TORONTO – A chunk of ice shelf nearly the size of Manhattan has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada’s northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer weather is changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday. Derek Mueller, an Arctic ice shelf specialist at Trent University in Ontario, said the 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf. . . CONTINUE
Arctic sea ice at second lowest level in 30 years By Seth Borenstein and Dan Joling, The Associated Press, August 28, 2008 WASHINGTON – More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming “tipping point” in the Arctic seems to be happening before our eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years. With about three weeks left in the. . . CONTINUE
July 25 2008 A new study by researchers at Columbia University’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) concludes that shutting down coal-fired power plants has a direct, positive impact on infant brain development. The study, published in the July 14th edition of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives, tracked the development of two groups of children in China – one in utero while a coal-fired power plant was operating in. . . CONTINUE
By Julian E. Barnes | Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2008 WASHINGTON – Across the oil-thirsty U.S. military, commanders are scrambling for ways to offset the ever-rising cost of fuel. But their best efforts so far have fallen short. The military services have found ways to save millions of dollars through conservation, but the price of oil has outpaced the cost-cutting efforts. The Navy, for example, estimates it is saving. . . CONTINUE
The health of thousands of Americans compromised to protect the EPA administrator’s corporate “friends”; (confirmed by EPA’s inspector general)* “far more contaminated than many Superfund sites, where respirators and moon suits are mandatory” Worse, this proves to be Bush’s universal mission – carried out by all his appointees, all his administration and starting in late June 2008, he is dragging McCain into it! from Crimes Against Nature, a book by. . . CONTINUE
10 July 2008 In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), former White House official Jason Burnett revealed that Vice President Cheney’s office deleted portions of the testimony of Center for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding, who testified last year about the consequences of climate change on public health. In a press conference yesterday, Boxer charged that White House spokesperson Dana Perino had ‘lied’ about the rationale behind the editing. . . CONTINUE
By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer, June 3, 2008 LOS ANGELES – Seven endangered California condors — about 20 percent of Southern California’s population — have been found with lead poisoning. The birds started turning up sick about a month ago during random trappings at Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge in the San Joaquin Valley. One of the birds died during treatment at the Los Angeles Zoo and four others. . . CONTINUE
