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Posts in June 2006

• BP Being Boycotted for Racial Discrimination

  Andy Rowell

  Jun30

  I would just like to tell you that we haven’t specifically got it in for BP – the oil giant seems to have it in for itself. Hot on the heels of news of the company being investigated for price manipulation and propane is the news that a group of prominent black leaders in the…
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• Home Owners Struggle To Get Insurance in Hurricane Prone Areas

  Andy Rowell

  Jun30

  Lets carry on this theme for a minute. The US produces nearly half of global emissions from vehicles, because they drive bigger more fuel inefficient cars further than anyone else. These emissions cause climate change which in turn causes more frequent hurricanes. More hurricanes and storms means more property damage and more property damage means…
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• Get Your Cheap SUV Here

  Andy Rowell

  Jun30

  So we now know that nearly half the global pollution coming from exhaust pipes is from US cars, because Americans drive bigger more fuel inefficient cars for longer than anyone else. So is that trend going to stop? No. The big three US auto makers are in the midst of offering ridiculous bargains to tempt…
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• BP Faces Propane Probe

  Andy Rowell

  Jun29

  Will the bad news ever stop for BP? US federal investigators have now charged the beleaguered oil giant with “secretly and illegally” cornering a portion of the U.S. propane market – a move that drove up heating and cooking costs for millions of poor and rural Americans.

• More on Ethanol: The Answer to Oil or a Pipe Dream?

  Andy Rowell

  Jun29

  Good article in today’s Independent on ethanol, which answers the question is ethanol the answer to reducing our CO2 emissions? Mike McCarthy, the paper’s environment editor, replies “It would certainly seem so at first sight, not least because the fastest growing greenhouse gas emissions are those from the transport sector, and it is in road…
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• Waxman Introduces Safe Climate Bill

  Andy Rowell

  Jun29

  One person who believes he can rid America of its gas-guzzling ways is Rep. Henry Waxman who along with twelve of his House colleagues, has introduced the “Safe Climate Act of 2006.”

• US Produces Nearly Half of Global Exhaust Fumes

  Andy Rowell

  Jun29

  OK so now it’s official. We all knew that Americans drove gas-guzzling polluting vehicles, but now the Environmental Defence Fund has calculated just how bad things are. And they are bad. Americans may only have 5% of the world’s population but they drive a third of its cars. However because Americans drive further in big…
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• Energy Use to Increase by 70 Per Cent (Although We Could Cut it by 50 Per Cent)

  Andy Rowell

  Jun27

  First the bad news. According to the US Energy Information Administration, energy use will increase by 71 percent by 2030, with the fastest growth coming from China, India and Latin America. Now the good news. Energy consumption could easily be cut in half, if clean energy technologies that are currently available were applied now, according…
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• Glaciers Melting Fastest for 5,000 Years

  Andy Rowell

  Jun27

  Mountain glaciers are melting faster now than at any time in the past 5,000 years because of climate change, a new study has found. From the Andes to the Himalayas climate change is leading to a full-scale retreat of the world’s tropical glaciers, meaning that we might have passed the critical threshold which could see…
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• Fancy a Nice English Olive?

  Andy Rowell

  Jun26

  Still don’t believe in global warming? Well, have an olive from England. Reflecting rising temperatures, Britain’s first olive grove has just been planted in Devon, with a small-holder planting a grove of 120 olive trees. The small-holder, Mr Diacono sees climate change as a “vast” problem for society but he told the Independent that it…
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