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An Ecologist Explains His Contested View of Planetary Limits

2013-09-16 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: Its no surprise that Erle C. Ellis, an ecologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, faced resistance when The Times published his Op-Ed article titled Overpopulation is Not the Problem. After all, his views clash with decades of assertions that were in overshoot as a species, sucking up far more resources than the planet can continue to offer. His answer to my enduring question here Which Comes First, Peak Everything or Peak us? is the latter. We are different than bacteria...

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New Jersey board to vote on contested PSE&G solar plan

2013-05-26 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: New Jersey's public utilities board is set to vote on a nearly half-billion-dollar proposal by the state's largest utility to expand solar power production, a plan the state-paid advocate for ratepayers has sharply criticized as creating an unfair market advantage subsidized by utility customers. The Board of Public Utilities is expected to vote on Public Service Electric & Gas Co.'s $446 million plan at its board meeting Wednesday in Trenton. If approved, it could go into effect immediately....

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NRC claims that US nuclear is safer than ever are contested by scientists

2013-03-11 01:00:00| Power Technology

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) chairman Allison Macfarlane has said that US nuclear power plants are now safer than ever after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, with these claims disputed by the Union of Concerned Scientists (U

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Ken Salazar leaves contested legacy as Obama's interior secretary

2013-01-16 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Barack Obama's top adviser on oil drilling and the management of America's last wide open spaces announced on Wednesday that he would leave the cabinet by March. The departure of Ken Salazar as interior secretary leaves Obama with virtually a clean slate to remake his energy and environmental team. The only other original member of Obama's original green "dream team", the Nobel prize-winning energy secretary Steven Chu, is also expected to step down at the start of Obama's second term. As interior...

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