Heating oil used in homes and businesses is the second most used petroleum product after gasoline. Reducing its use would mean that the price for it would go down and there would be more petroleum available to be made into...
Category - environment
One of the big news in the British media at the moment is the protest against the bulding of a new runway at Heathrow Airport, one of the busiest aiports in the world. The protesters’ point is simple: if the government really is serious about...
After the last gloomy post on plastic bags, a flurry of good news on the environmental front. Wired has written that ‘vulnerable birds are rebounding in Europe’ while in Peru conversation efforts “are reducing damage to the Amazon...
There was an ozone advisory where I live today. That is not a surprise. When it gets to about 98 or so, more ozone is going to form at ground level. I saw a a sign on the freeway that said “Ozone Advisory. Please reduce travel, carpool or use...
Nothing like some piece of good news on Monday morning. The International Herald Tribune wrote that “the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a wide-ranging energy bill that will require most utilities to produce 15 percent of their...
