Category: Green Building LEED News
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Obama Orders Stricter Fuel Efficiency Standards For Big Trucks
[caption id="attachment_322061" align="alignright" width="360"] Barack Obama is pictured earlier this week. Photo credit: Whitehouse.gov[/caption] Trucks on U.S. roads and highways have long needed an efficiency makeover, and President Barack Obama demanded it Tuesday afternoon in Maryland. Obama said his administration will issue tougher fuel-efficiency standards for delivery trucks by March 2016, The Associated Press reported. Heavy-duty trucks are…
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Chevron Offers One Free Pizza (Special Combo Only) to Residents Affected by Natural Gas Drilling Explosion
A week ago today an explosion at a Chevron Appalachia natural gas drilling site shook the town of Dunkard, PA. The ensuing fire burned for days and one missing worker has been presumed dead, according to CBS Pittsburgh. [caption id="attachment_322042" align="alignnone" width="500"] For days after the explosion the sound of the fire can be heard at least a mile…
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Dr. Oz Advocates GMO-Labeling, Discusses Dangers of Genetically-Engineered Food
Nearly 70 percent of the food available for purchase at supermarkets contains GMOs (genetically modified organisms), which equates to about two million GMO food products for sale, according to the Dr. Oz Show. [caption id="attachment_322036" align="alignnone" width="500"] On Feb. 13, Dr. Oz aired a special on GMO foods, their risks and how to spot them…
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How Small Reactor Fires Could Result in U.S. Nuclear Disasters Worse Than Fukushima
[caption id="attachment_322026" align="alignright" width="360"] Photo credit: CNN’s Pandora’s Promise[/caption] No matter the size, a nuclear reactor pool fire is dangerous enough to change millions of lives forever. The Nuclear Information Resource and Service and dozens of other organizations on Tuesday uncovered an unpublished study by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that suggests that even a small nuclear reactor…
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Mainstream Media Goes Big on Climate Change and Extreme Weather Coverage
By Thomas Bishop and Samantha Wyatt This week, all four major broadcast networks covered extreme weather and climate change on their Sunday morning political talk shows. Those programs have largely ignored global warming in recent years, making their effort to address the issue unusual and laudable. But several of the segments also demonstrated the vulnerability inherent in treating science…