Category: Green Building LEED News
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Protestors Block Fracking Site With Giant Wind Turbine Blade
At 5.30 this morning, fifty people blocked the entrance to IGas’s exploratory drilling site in Barton Moss with a giant wind turbine blade. The campaigners arrived at the site in Salford in Greater Manchester, proceeded to unload and assemble the 17-meter blade from its three component segments. They were spotted by a security guard who…
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ALEC Calls for ‘Guerilla Warfare’ in Weakening Carbon Emissions Standards
By Aliya Haq The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a clandestine network of corporations and conservative state lawmakers, had its annual “policy summit” last week in Washington, D.C. The group held a special session to discuss upcoming U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) carbon-pollution standards for power plants. According to reports, ALEC members and industry lawyers…
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Antibacterial Soap Manufacturers Must Prove Effectiveness Under Proposed FDA Rule
The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today proposed a federal rule that, if finalized, would remove the potentially hazardous chemical triclosan from antibacterial body washes and hand soaps. Under the proposed rule, the FDA will require manufacturers to prove their antibacterial soaps and body washes are safe and more effective than plain soap and…
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Conservationists Resort to Drastic Measure to Protect World’s Rarest Tortoise From Poachers
Conservation organizations fighting to save one of the world’s most threatened tortoises from poachers have resorted to a drastic measure—engraving identification codes onto the animals’ shells to reduce their black market value. Although fully protected, Ploughshare Tortoises are prized for their beautiful high domed shells, but are being pushed closer to the brink of extinction…
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Federal Forecast for Renewables Surprisingly Low
The federal agency responsible for collecting and analyzing data on all sources of energy thinks very little of the potential impact of renewable power in the future. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today released an early and abridged version of its 2014 Annual Energy Outlook with forecasts for all energy sectors. The EIA projects solar, wind…