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Growth Energy Slams ARB Staff Report On New Low Carbon Fuel Standard Rules
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Growth Energy has called on the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to reject rules developed by its staff that would impose unfair standards in calculating the carbon intensity of fuels as part of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). The ARB staff report calls for the adoption of a flawed indirect land use change (ILUC) theory that would only penalize biofuels while ignoring the signific ... more Netafim To Supply Smart Irrigation Solutions For Peruvian Ethanol Project 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 09, 2009Netafim has entered into an EPC agreement with Maple, under which Netafim will provide engineering, procurement and construction of a drip irrigation system and become the exclusive supplier of smart irrigation solutions for Maple's sugar cane project to be constructed and operated in Peru. The project, spanning close to 8,000 hectares of land in Northern Peru, will include cultivation of ... more Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2009Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate" has blocked NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations for the upcoming Martian summer and following winter. The rover has begun a trek skirting at least partway around the plateau instead of directly over it. However, Spirit has also gotten a jum ... more US demands al-Marri Supreme Court case be dropped 
Washington (AFP) March 5, 2009The new US administration has pressed the Supreme Court in papers filed this week to set aside a constitutional challenge in a case that could determine whether "enemy combatants" can be held indefinitely on US soil. The case involves Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, an alleged Al-Qaeda sleeper agent who has been held as an "enemy combatant" in the United States since 2003 but was formally charged ... more Wild birds likely caused HK H5N1 outbreak: official 
Hong Kong (AFP) March 5, 2009An outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus at a Hong Kong farm last year which led to the slaughter of 90,000 chickens was likely spread by wild birds, an investigation found Thursday. The December outbreak was the first discovered at a Hong Kong poultry farm in six years, and raised fears about the city's biosecurity measures and whether the deadly H5N1 virus had mutated. "As with ma ... more |
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Durham NC (SPX) Mar 05, 2009Ancient groundwater being tapped by Jordan, one of the 10 most water-deprived nations in the world, has been found to contain twenty times the radiation considered safe for drinking water in a new study by an international team of researchers. "The combined activities of 228 radium and 226 radium - the two long-lived isotopes of radium - in the groundwater we tested are up to 2000 percent ... more Chinese dairy maker buys scandal-hit milk firm: industry association 
Beijing (AFP) March 4, 2009A leading Chinese dairy brand has bought part of the assets of Sanlu Group, the firm at the centre of a huge contaminated milk scandal that rocked the nation, an industry association said Wednesday. Beijing's Sanyuan Group and one of its subsidiaries paid 616.5 million yuan (90 million dollars) for some of Sanlu's assets at a court auction, the Dairy Association of China said in a statement. ... more TRC Completes EIS For Proposed Cape Wind Project 
Lowell MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2009TRC Companies has announced the recent completion of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) prepared for the U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) for the first proposed offshore wind energy project in the United States. The release of the FEIS moves the Cape Wind Project, a proposed 130-turbine wind farm off the shore in Nantucket Sound, Mass., closer to federal approval. The pr ... more GOES-O Satellite Arrives At KSC For Final Pre-Launch Testing 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 04, 2009The latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) developed by NASA for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), called GOES-O, arrived this morning by a C17 military cargo aircraft at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility from the manufacturing plant in El Segundo, Calif. The GOES-O satellite is targeted to launch April 28 onboard a Unite ... more Wenchuan Earthquake Mudslides Emit Greenhouse Gas 
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 04, 2009Mudslides that followed the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan, China earthquake, ranked by the US Geological Survey as the 11th deadliest earthquake ever recorded, may cause a carbon-dioxide release in upcoming decades equivalent to two percent of current annual global carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, a new study shows. Mudslides wipe away plants and topsoil, depleting terrain of nutrients ... more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2009Navajo Wind Energy has announced that it has received a confirmation letter of financing from Xiyas Development Capital for the Company's 50% joint venture partnership interest in the CSRI Xuzhou Nantung wind farm project. This financing is in addition to the funding announced on January 20, 2009 and is debt based, which will not affect the capital structure of the Company. As previo ... more Study Critiques Corn-For-Ethanol's Carbon Footprint 
Durham NC (SPX) Mar 04, 2009To avoid creating greenhouse gases, it makes more sense using today's technology to leave land unfarmed in conservation reserves than to plow it up for corn to make biofuel, according to a comprehensive Duke University-led study. "Converting set-asides to corn-ethanol production is an inefficient and expensive greenhouse gas mitigation policy that should not be encouraged until ethanol-pro ... more Three ESA Earth Science Missions Move To Next Phase 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 03, 2009ESA has announced three candidate Earth Explorer mission concepts to progress to the next phase of consolidation. This selection is part of the user-driven process that will lead to the launch of the Agency's seventh Earth Explorer satellite in the 2016 time frame. Last week ESA's Programme Board for Earth Observation decided on three Earth Explorer missions that will undergo Feasibility S ... more Earth-Observing Landsat 5 Turns 25 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2009132,969 ... 132,970 ... 132,971. Like a trusty watch counting up the minutes, the Landsat 5 satellite keeps on ticking, orbit after orbit around Earth. Well beyond its design lifetime of 15,000 orbits, the satellite's trajectory could go askew or its instruments could malfunction at any moment. But not today. Still observing the Earth after 25 years - 22 beyond its three-year primary ... more Svalbard Marks First Anniversary 
Longyearbyen, Norway (SPX) Mar 03, 2009Four tons of seeds - almost 90,000 samples of hundreds of crop species - from food crop collections maintained by Canada, Ireland, Switzerland, USA, and three international agricultural research centers in Syria, Mexico and Colombia, were delivered today to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault as it celebrated its one-year anniversary. The repository, located near the village of Longyearbyen on ... more
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