MRSA Widespread in European Pigs – Threat Looms for the UK

The first Europe-wide testing of pig herds for MRSA has found that the bacteria is present in 17 of 24 member states tested. The highest level of MRSA positives found was 51% of Spanish breeding-pig herds, with the next highest levels being found in Germany, Belgium and Italy.

Icebergs Drifting on a Path of Climate Change

A large mass of icebergs is drifting north from Antarctica, past the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.
In the past 24 hours at least four icebergs have been spotted off the east and west coasts of the island, ranging in size from 50 metres up to an estimated two kilometres in length.
This follows a recent sighting of a [...]

Bigscreen Death: California Approves New Energy Efficient TV Regulations

Sacramento – In an historic and unanimous 5-0 vote, the California Energy Commission today approved the nation’s first energy efficiency standards for televisions. When these standards are implemented in 2011, new TVs sold in California will be the most energy efficient in the nation. After ten years, the commission estimates the regulations will save $8.1 [...]

Mineral Management Service Disburses $10.68 Billion in FY 2009

DENVER, CO – The Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) today announced that it disbursed more than $10.68 billion in Fiscal Year 2009 from revenues collected from energy and mineral production on Federal and American Indian lands, including energy and mineral production on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf.
“In these tough economic conditions, these [...]

Women Central to Efforts to Deal With Climate Change, Says United Nations

LONDON - Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludesThe State of World Population 2009, released today by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.
“Poor women in poor countries are among [...]

U.S.-China Clean Energy Announcements

President Barack Obama and President Hu Jintao announced a far-reaching package of measures to strengthen cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy. Please see the attached fact sheets for additional details on each of the U.S-China clean energy announcements.

First U.S. Cow-Powered Milk Truck

     The nation’s first “cow-powered” truck debuts at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California. Two trucks that normally run on diesel have been converted to run on biomethane – produced from cow manure at Hilarides Dairy. This renewable fuels model reduces global warming emissions (methane from manure), air pollution (from diesel emissions) and [...]

Demand for Legal Wood Answered With Solution

    Recent changes to the Lacey Act now provide for criminal penalties for any US company that knowingly imports illegally harvested wood. The Tropical Forest Foundation (TFF) has a program in place to deal with the risk by providing a standard for legality and help with independent auditing to confirm to customers and the [...]

Close the Arctic! Says N. Pacific Fishery Mgmt Council

    The Marine Conservation Alliance (MCA), an association of fishermen, processors and communities involved in the groundfish and crab fisheries off Alaska, said it fully supports action today by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC) to close all commercial fishing in waters north of the Bering Strait until a management plan is fully developed.
    “Climate change is [...]

NEW ENERGY FOR AMERICA: Obama-Biden

The Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will:

Provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump.
Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from [...]

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