Mayor Hickenlooper on Colorado Matters
| Bush lifts offshore drilling ban in symbolic move President George W. Bush on Monday lifted a White House ban on offshore drilling to try to drive down soaring energy prices, a largely symbolic bid unlikely to have any short-term impact on high gasoline costs. With prices at the pump over $4 a gallon, Bush pushed the Democratic-controlled Congress to expand offshore oil and natural gas drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf and give oil companies access to the Arctic Wildlife National Refuge. High gasoline prices and soaring food prices have irked American consumers in a presidential election year, when Bush’s Republicans are trying to keep the White House and wrest control of Congress back from Democrats. |
| Canada’s Boreal forest gets some protection. A huge swath of Canada’s northern Boreal forest will be permanently protected from tree harvesting and mining as part of a plan to combat climate change, Ontario province’s premier announced Monday. |
| Off-Road Electric Vehicles Frontiers for electric vehicles have changed: 10 years ago or even more recently it was almost impossible to consider an electric solution for all-terrain purposes, now on the market we see new products with highly improved performances. Pioneer in this field is the Italian company Alkè (www.alke.com) who invested research and time to develop [.] |
| Turning Airborne Carbon Into Fuel We are already experiencing the ill effects of greenhouse gases in the form of global warming, glaciers and polar ice melting, rise in the sea level and sudden, unpredictable variation in weather, turning catastrophic sometimes. The eventual effect of global warming is sending a chill down the spines of environmentalists. Several teams of researchers [.] |
| Exelon plans huge cut in greenhouse emissions. Power company Exelon Corp plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 by more than its total emissions in 2008 in an attempt to shape the debate on carbon dioxide rules and to get a jump on compliance, the New York Times said on Tuesday. |
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