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In a cavernous, abandoned lumber mill in the Black Belt, a small team of engineers and technicians is assembling a demonstration plant that, as early as this month, will start turning wood scraps into ethanol.
While the sap-sucking woolly adelgid is laying waste to eastern and Carolina hemlocks in the forests of Southern Appalachia at an alarming pace, scientists at the Lindsay Young Beneficial Insects Laboratory at the University of Tennessee are working just as furiously to produce predator bugs that can demolish the invaders.
A network of tiny pipes of water could be used to cool next-generation PC chips, researchers at IBM have said.
Scientists at the firm have shown off a prototype device layered with thousands of "hair-width" cooling arteries.
They believe it could be a solution to the increasing amount of heat pumped out by chips as they become smaller and more densely packed with components.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The movement of billions of gallons of water around the country for drinking, irrigation and other uses will not require permits under the Clean Water Act, even though the water could contain contaminants, the Bush administration announced Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) - As liquidity is drained from credit and money markets and pours into oil and gold, another asset class that could offer long-term returns to the discerning investor is water.
Minnesota health officials took the unprecedented step of advising several families to evacuate their homes Sunday night after fumes from a large dairy feedlot near Thief River Falls reached unhealthy levels.
I haven't been in touch for a while, and some of you have written
asking for an an update on the 2008 Farm Bill. After many, many
months of wrangling, the bill was just passed by Congress, overriding a
veto by the President. In my view, it is not a very good bill-- it
preserves more or less intact the whole structure of subsidies
Rep. Tom C. Feeney, R-Fla. (24th CD), issued the following press release:
Future oil refining in the U.S. may soon get much "dirtier" -- including three times more greenhouse gas emissions in the extraction process -- as refineries place their bets on a shift away from traditional crude oil to Canadian tar sands, according to a major new report issued today by the independent Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). The Washington, D.C.
OTTAWA -- Environmental activists are telling Americans that the Alberta oilsands are an environmental disaster that is poisoning U.S refineries.
"The environmental costs of tar-sand development are staggering," says a report released yesterday by the Environmental Integrity Project, a Washington-based group, in the latest salvo in a pitched public-relations battle over the oilsands.
EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) is requiring Illinois regulators to conduct a new review to determine the adequacy of emission limits for a refinery expansion, marking a win for environmentalists' broader campaign targeting refinery expansions intended to process fuel from tar sands.
Claiming an election-year mandate from the presumptive Democratic
presidential nominee, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, House and Senate
Democrats Wednesday introduced labor-backed legislation to effectively call
a time-out on free-trade agreements.
(The Politico) Democratic trade critics from both parties today said they have a firm commitment from the now-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama that hell reopen the North American Free Trade Agreement if he wins in November.
Ideally, the price of a product would reflect production and delivery costs plus a
reasonable profit. If this were the case, crude oil would be selling for about $50 a
barrel and corn would be selling for about $4 a bushel.
WowOWow.com, May 28, 2008
Ideally, the price of a product would reflect production and delivery costs plus a
reasonable profit. If this were the case, crude oil would be selling for about $50 a
barrel and corn would be selling for about $4 a bushel.
Robert Zoellick, head of the World Bank, warns that the unfolding food crisis could force 100 million people deeper into destitution and set back
Federal food safety and public health agencies are being urged to begin checking meat sold across the country for the presence of MRSA, a potentially fatal bacteria. Scientists have found the infection in U.S. pigs and farmworkers.
Members of Congress and public health advocates are demanding that the government determine whether highly infectious MRSA has entered the food supply.