Greenpeace threatened with legal action over Spanish coastal resort pictures
Greenpeace has been threatened with legal action over doctored pictures showing a Mediterranean coastal resort submerged under a foot-and-a-half of water.
Archive for June 16th, 2008
Ireland rejects EU reform treaty
Voters in the Irish Republic reject the EU’s Lisbon treaty in a referendum, delivering a severe blow to leaders’ plans for reform.
Uganda: Central Govt Cripples KCC Operations
Floods on Saturday swept Kampala suburbs leaving traders and city dwellers counting losses and cursing Kampala City Council for failing to clear channels and collect piled garbage.
The chairman of the boar
Adam Edwards on the secret life of a farmer who found wild success.
EPA Rejects Permits for Dirty Refinery
CHICAGO (June 6 2008) – In a case that might impact oil refineries around the nation, plans by ConocoPhillips to expand its refinery in Roxana, IL were derailed today when an appeal board of the US Environmental Protection Agency upheld a challenge to the air permit required for the project. The decision sends ConocoPhillips and [...]
US announces renewable fuel standards for vehicles
But the Environmental Protection Agency stopped short of committing to regulate the greenhouse gases that spur on global warming
Geothermal power plants could also consume CO2
Pumping carbon dioxide through hot rocks could simultaneously boost efficiency and mop up greenhouse gases
European energy plan targets big carbon cuts
The plan amounts to a “post-industrial revolution”, says the European Commission, and aims to beat the bloc’s oil addiction and combat climate change
Spill or leak may have ignited oil depot blaze
Europe’s largest fire incident in fifty years may have been caused by a fuel spill or leak, say experts, but the health and environmental effects should be limited
Are days numbered for ‘bubble fusion’?
The prospect of cheap energy from tabletop nuclear reactions seems as far from reality as ever, with its biggest proponent now under scrutiny