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President Obama, Bill McKibben & I Want You To Man Up on Global Warming. It’s Time To Book Your Hotel In Copenhagen

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I voted for Barack Obama and I worked hard campaigning to get him elected. Wimpy and inadequate” is the apt description of United States action so far, which only looks good under Obama compared to the eight years of Bush, but the best we can do? org Bill McKibben Climate Progress Copenhagen Joe Romm President Obama.

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Obama to Nominate Father of Green Chemistry to head EPA RD

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President Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate Dr. Paul T. His nine books include “Benign by Design,” “Designing Safer Polymers,” “Green Engineering” and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, “Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice. Dr. Anastas , considered the ”Father of Green Chemistry“ is the Teresa and H.

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Marathon Announces First Oil from Deepwater Droshky Development in Gulf of Mexico

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This marks the first new deepwater production since the Obama Administration halted drilling after the Deepwater Horizon accident. At year-end 2009, Droshky had booked proved reserves of approximately 26 million boe. The new well had already been drilled at the time of the incident.

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EPA tightens national annual PM2.5 standard to 12 µg/m3

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The rest can rely on air quality improvements from federal rules already on the books to meet this new standard, the agency said. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to review its air quality standards every five years to determine whether the standards should be revised.

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Remembering Lithium-Ion Battery Pioneer John Goodenough

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And, of course, my [older] brother read really well, and my father was a professor with a lot of books to read. National Medal of Science from President Barack Obama. “I was so frustrated that I couldn’t read,” he wrote in his memoir, Witness to Grace. It was terrible.” In addition to the Nobel Prize, he received the 2011 U.S.

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Report finds Coal-to-Liquids and Oil Shale pose significant financial and environmental risks to investors

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The Obama Administration’s recent extension of the offshore oil-drilling moratorium through 2011 has also renewed investor interest in on-shore oil reserves. An increased focus on energy security and dwindling petroleum reserves are driving development of unconventional liquid fuel sources in the US.

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The Greenius Goes Into Overdrive

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That’s right my friends, while others are cutting back, downsizing, slowing down and pulling back, your Creative Greenius is not only Ready to Go, I’m already going, baby, and I’m moving at Obama speed. click on the graphic to download the Manhattan Beach Green book. Manhattan Beach Environmental Task Force.

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