Category: Green Building LEED News
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Chemical Company Sues California Over New Flame Retardant Law
The chemical company Chemtura sued the state of California yesterday seeking to block new fire safety regulations that would permit furniture production without toxic flame retardants. [caption id="attachment_318383" align="alignnone" width="500"] Concerned over potential profit loss, since California holds enormous purchasing power—almost 10 percent of the U.S. population—Chemtura sued the state.[/caption] The new rules, which Gov.…
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What’s in it? Business customers care more than you might think.
Authored by: Lee Ann Head Feature image: By Lee Ann Head (originally found on SheltonInsights)read more
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Slideshow: Direct Action to Stop Keystone XL South at the White House
You wouldn’t know it from the lack of focus and attention by the environmental establishment, but the 485-mile southern leg of TransCanada’s Keystone XL tar sands pipeline has been built, is being filled and is scheduled to start up on Jan. 22. Front line reports from landowners in Texas and Oklahoma say that TransCanada has patrol…
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New Research Maps Countries’ Contributions to Global Warming
A new study aims to offer unique insights into countries’ historical responsibility for global warming, by translating their carbon emissions into a proportion of observed temperature rise. How responsible different countries’ are for climate change to date has long been a contentious issue. Contributing differently to the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, some countries…
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President Obama Gives $1 Billion Game-Changing Gift to ‘Clean’ Coal
In the same days an entrepreneur went on federal trial for fraud over an unproven “clean coal” scheme, President Obama’s Department of Energy (DOE) gave a game-changing approval for a $1 billion gift to continue the unproven FutureGen “clean coal” boondoggle in Illinois. Kind of ironic, ain’t it—if it weren’t so tragic. On the heels of the West Virginia coal-cleaning chemical disaster,…