To Meet Methane Emissions Duty, California Must Look Beyond its Own Borders
Yes, we need to regulate methane and natural gas emissions, and ensure the fuels we use that originate outside our state are not causing undue pollution in their extraction and transportation as well. Yet another reason renewable and clean energy sources need to take the lions share of generation in the state ASAP.
Monday, June 22, 2015
Massive Fracking Burnoff Can Be Seen From Outer Space
Massive Fracking Burnoff Can Be Seen From Outer Space
Fracking burnoff has got to be regulated and captured. Shameful policy, as wasting 30% of the natural gas is industry standard -- and contributing to ruining the enivornment -- when capturing costs only a little more than burning it off. Disgusting and shameful, and another reason fossil fuel type of companies cannot be trusted or relied upon to 'police' and regulate themselves.
Fracking burnoff has got to be regulated and captured. Shameful policy, as wasting 30% of the natural gas is industry standard -- and contributing to ruining the enivornment -- when capturing costs only a little more than burning it off. Disgusting and shameful, and another reason fossil fuel type of companies cannot be trusted or relied upon to 'police' and regulate themselves.
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Study: 6th mass extinction already underway -- and we're the cause -- USA TODAY
Here interesting how futile these headlines seem while Rome burns.
Whatever anthropologists are left will equally wonder about the greed and avarice of (1) the coal and oil barons who held everyone else essentially back in the polluting world of the 1800s and 1900s, and about (2) everyone else who did not have the mettle to confront and deter the destruction the oil and coal barons.
Whatever anthropologists are left will equally wonder about the greed and avarice of (1) the coal and oil barons who held everyone else essentially back in the polluting world of the 1800s and 1900s, and about (2) everyone else who did not have the mettle to confront and deter the destruction the oil and coal barons.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Pope Francis hands GOP climate change dilemma - CNNPolitics.com
Pope Francis hands GOP climate change dilemma - CNNPolitics.com
Actually, man burning fossil fuels has been handing us the problem, the GOP has been evading and avoiding reality. That the Pope is putting the issue in front of everyone, and so many GOP relate to the Church and the Pope, they are in receipt on the problem as well.
Actually, man burning fossil fuels has been handing us the problem, the GOP has been evading and avoiding reality. That the Pope is putting the issue in front of everyone, and so many GOP relate to the Church and the Pope, they are in receipt on the problem as well.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Average US Woman Today Weighs Same as Man in '60s, FDA Mandates Trans-Fats Be Phased Out by Food Manufacturers
Weight women now 166.2; men now 196. Trans-Fats
Sometimes it's funny to see two headlines right next to each other on a newsfeed!
First thought, too late! But in due time at least.
Trans-fats are in most all the artery-clogging cookies and chips packaged crap -- "processed or manufactured food." What exactly is manufactured food anyway? I've been avoiding packaged crap for awhile, for health reasons. And weigh close to the male average... from the sixties. I also choose to remain physically active. This seems more sustainable for someone who likes to bike, and swim, and looks to snorkel, scuba dive, play golf and tennis and hike etc. as long into life as possible.
"The FDA encourages consumers seeking to reduce trans fat intake to check a food’s ingredient list for partially hydrogenated oils to determine whether or not a product"... contains artificial trans fat.
Pretty easy equation actually (see bottom). For better health, one needs to add will and awareness (will being the hardest part), and we as a society ought best to avoid or perhaps make less available universally available junk foods (or as here with with the FDA with less junk ingredients), particularly for kids. Which is happening in school, getting full-sugar sodas and fatty, full-sugar candy out of the rec hall vending machines. And/but on some level the FDA has been letting fast food joints and gas station wrapper foods poison us with sugars and carb and fat bomb meals and chemicals and trans-fats for awhile. Hard issue: at what point is free will the hinge, and how poisonous/deleterious to our health must something be before the government has to regulate/remove it (think asbestos, snake oil salesmen, etc.).
"...But the story is mostly one of growing girth... we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much.... Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia." !!
Sometimes it's funny to see two headlines right next to each other on a newsfeed!
First thought, too late! But in due time at least.
Trans-fats are in most all the artery-clogging cookies and chips packaged crap -- "processed or manufactured food." What exactly is manufactured food anyway? I've been avoiding packaged crap for awhile, for health reasons. And weigh close to the male average... from the sixties. I also choose to remain physically active. This seems more sustainable for someone who likes to bike, and swim, and looks to snorkel, scuba dive, play golf and tennis and hike etc. as long into life as possible.
"The FDA encourages consumers seeking to reduce trans fat intake to check a food’s ingredient list for partially hydrogenated oils to determine whether or not a product"... contains artificial trans fat.
Pretty easy equation actually (see bottom). For better health, one needs to add will and awareness (will being the hardest part), and we as a society ought best to avoid or perhaps make less available universally available junk foods (or as here with with the FDA with less junk ingredients), particularly for kids. Which is happening in school, getting full-sugar sodas and fatty, full-sugar candy out of the rec hall vending machines. And/but on some level the FDA has been letting fast food joints and gas station wrapper foods poison us with sugars and carb and fat bomb meals and chemicals and trans-fats for awhile. Hard issue: at what point is free will the hinge, and how poisonous/deleterious to our health must something be before the government has to regulate/remove it (think asbestos, snake oil salesmen, etc.).
"...But the story is mostly one of growing girth... we're eating less healthy food, we're eating more of it, and we're not moving around as much.... Americans are now the world's third-heaviest people, behind only the Pacific island nations of Tonga and Micronesia." !!
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Environmental Action Climate Deniers Are Not Fit For The White House
Environmental Action Climate Deniers Are Not Fit For The White House
Sign to include your name on petition... to ask that these backward thinking flat-earthers get up to date and on the same planet we all are trying to save, to help preserve a sustainable ecosystem and ensure humanity's survival and decent quality of life....
Sign to include your name on petition... to ask that these backward thinking flat-earthers get up to date and on the same planet we all are trying to save, to help preserve a sustainable ecosystem and ensure humanity's survival and decent quality of life....
Take Action -- Tell Obama to Nominate SEC Commissioners Who Will Fight for Main Street, Not Pander to Wall Street
Take Action Via Public Citizen
Nominate SEC Commissioners Who Will Fight for Main Street, Not Pander to Wall Street
President Obama soon will be filling two
vacancies at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a federal
agency with broad authority to crack down on Wall Street recklessness.
vacancies at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a federal
agency with broad authority to crack down on Wall Street recklessness.
Make sure President Obama nominates SEC commissioners who will fight for Main Street, not pander to Wall Street.
Sign the Petition to the President
Monday, June 15, 2015
Magna Carta's 800th Birthday -- Thank You
Here Haven't heard about this since junior high school. 800 years old, progress in civilized countries has to happen eventually.... like today, phasing out fossil fuel use.
Then, "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of the law." Thank you.
Then, "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of the law." Thank you.
Friday, June 12, 2015
House casts gloom over Obama trade agenda -- Fast Tracking the Trans-Pacific Parnership (TPP) – POLITICO
House casts gloom over Obama trade agenda – POLITICO
Again, good. Per 350.org, "The TPP is an example of the wealthiest 1% working together
against the rest of us -- and the set back today is a demonstration of
the power we have when the rest of us work together to fight back."
Again, good. Per 350.org, "The TPP is an example of the wealthiest 1% working together
against the rest of us -- and the set back today is a demonstration of
the power we have when the rest of us work together to fight back."
Major blow to Fast Tracking the TPP: trade bill defeated in House - The Washington Post
Winners and losers in the House trade vote - The Washington Post
Like it, alot. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as it stands, stinks, and is a giveaway to corporate interests, cancer-causing monoliths like Monsanto, and other nefarious companies that could take a poo on US sovereignty -- and US workers and environmental rights, etc. Separately, terrible, terrible things and taken all together absolutely not acceptable. This one definitely can't be Fast Tracked. As it is it certainly needs to be untracked.
Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune released a statement
saying:”This is a major victory for everyone who thinks trade should be
fair and responsible. The era of free trade deals that harm workers and
the environment is coming to a close. Now, we must bury fast track and
trade deals that threaten our air, water and climate, once and for all,
and start fresh to build a new model of trade.”
Like it, alot. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as it stands, stinks, and is a giveaway to corporate interests, cancer-causing monoliths like Monsanto, and other nefarious companies that could take a poo on US sovereignty -- and US workers and environmental rights, etc. Separately, terrible, terrible things and taken all together absolutely not acceptable. This one definitely can't be Fast Tracked. As it is it certainly needs to be untracked.
Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune released a statement
saying:”This is a major victory for everyone who thinks trade should be
fair and responsible. The era of free trade deals that harm workers and
the environment is coming to a close. Now, we must bury fast track and
trade deals that threaten our air, water and climate, once and for all,
and start fresh to build a new model of trade.”
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
E.P.A. to Set New Limits on Airplane Emissions - NYTimes.com
E.P.A. to Set New Limits on Airplane Emissions - NYTimes.com
This is great news. Overdue. Airplanes a big contributor to greenhouse gas emmissions. Everyone must help.
I currently have to buy Terrapasses to make up for the pollution I contribute to when I fly: http://www.terrapass.com/
They plant trees and contribute to wind farms, etc. They have a calculator of miles per vehicle and $ for offset of the CO2. Great site and stuff. Maybe I will have to buy less in the future.
This is great news. Overdue. Airplanes a big contributor to greenhouse gas emmissions. Everyone must help.
I currently have to buy Terrapasses to make up for the pollution I contribute to when I fly: http://www.terrapass.com/
They plant trees and contribute to wind farms, etc. They have a calculator of miles per vehicle and $ for offset of the CO2. Great site and stuff. Maybe I will have to buy less in the future.
Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive Deal Isn’t About Trade, But Corporate Control | Democracy Now!
Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive Deal Isn’t About Trade, But Corporate Control | Democracy Now!
This is nasty. Protecting the largest corporations and profit above the rights and sovereignty of individual countries -- let alone us poor individual citizens. Nasty, foul, venal, profit-greed protecting nonsense, bullshit and worse forms of black-herarted sociopathic capitalism gone shooting off the rails far from the land of Democracy of the people for the people....
"...And we know from similar instruments where governments can be sued over free trade treaties that that is used to construct a chilling effect on environmental and health regulation law. For example, Togo, Australia, Uruguay are all being sued by tobacco companies, Philip Morris the leading one, to prevent them from introducing health warnings on the cigarette packets." Etc. Etc. Etc.
Down a slippery slope of oligarchy lined with the history of fairness and innocent citizens....
This is nasty. Protecting the largest corporations and profit above the rights and sovereignty of individual countries -- let alone us poor individual citizens. Nasty, foul, venal, profit-greed protecting nonsense, bullshit and worse forms of black-herarted sociopathic capitalism gone shooting off the rails far from the land of Democracy of the people for the people....
"...And we know from similar instruments where governments can be sued over free trade treaties that that is used to construct a chilling effect on environmental and health regulation law. For example, Togo, Australia, Uruguay are all being sued by tobacco companies, Philip Morris the leading one, to prevent them from introducing health warnings on the cigarette packets." Etc. Etc. Etc.
Down a slippery slope of oligarchy lined with the history of fairness and innocent citizens....
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