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Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – California last week took a huge step toward the goal of running entirely on renewable energy, as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced that it’s retiring three natural gas power plants. The L.A. DWP, which is the largest municipal utility...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The concept of “daylight savings time” (DST), whereby we set our clocks ahead by an hour from mid-Spring through mid-Fall so we can get more done using natural light later into the evening, was first proposed more than 200 years ago by Benjamin...
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EFE Miami – Los “extremadamente altos” niveles de contaminación en cuatro cruceros de la empresa Carnival pueden superar los de ciudades conocidas por su deteriorada calidad del aire como Pekín y Santiago de Chile, afirma una investigación encubierta divulgada por la Universidad Johns Hopkins. El estudio sobre “partículas ultrafinas”,...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one is happy about the recent partial shutdown of the federal government in the U.S. as President Trump plays hardball with Congress on allocating funds for his “border wall.” While essential government services typically remain open in any government shutdown, it’s up...
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How is it that bitcoin, a virtual currency that few of us have heard of and no one I know uses, is becoming a major contributor to carbon emissions? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk It’s hard to believe that bitcoin, the best known of a group of...
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Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Conservation groups are urging the state to better protect California’s wetlands in the face of imminent rollbacks by the Trump administration. The State Water Resources Control Board has been working on a new wetlands policy for more than a decade, but has not...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Although some greener alternatives exist, most dry cleaners still use perchloroethylene (“perc” for short), a petroleum-based solvent that can be hazardous to the human central nervous system, with exposure causing headaches, nausea, dizziness and memory problems for some people. Perc’s constituent components—phosgene, vinyl...
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Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Carpeting is an oft-overlooked culprit when it comes to compromised indoor air quality, but the chemicals used to produce it are typically far from natural. According to the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG), most carpeting is made from synthetic fibers derived from non-renewable...
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It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face is a comet or asteroid striking the Earth. Do we currently track these space rocks? And do we have any hope of deflecting them if they are headed right for us? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss...
Suzanne Potter California News Service LOS ANGELES – California last week took a huge step toward the goal of running entirely on renewable energy, as the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power announced that it’s retiring three natural gas power plants. The L.A. DWP, which is the largest municipal utility...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk The concept of “daylight savings time” (DST), whereby we set our clocks ahead by an hour from mid-Spring through mid-Fall so we can get more done using natural light later into the evening, was first proposed more than 200 years ago by Benjamin...
EFE Miami – Los “extremadamente altos” niveles de contaminación en cuatro cruceros de la empresa Carnival pueden superar los de ciudades conocidas por su deteriorada calidad del aire como Pekín y Santiago de Chile, afirma una investigación encubierta divulgada por la Universidad Johns Hopkins. El estudio sobre “partículas ultrafinas”,...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk No one is happy about the recent partial shutdown of the federal government in the U.S. as President Trump plays hardball with Congress on allocating funds for his “border wall.” While essential government services typically remain open in any government shutdown, it’s up...
How is it that bitcoin, a virtual currency that few of us have heard of and no one I know uses, is becoming a major contributor to carbon emissions? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk It’s hard to believe that bitcoin, the best known of a group of...
Suzanne Potter California News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Conservation groups are urging the state to better protect California’s wetlands in the face of imminent rollbacks by the Trump administration. The State Water Resources Control Board has been working on a new wetlands policy for more than a decade, but has not...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Although some greener alternatives exist, most dry cleaners still use perchloroethylene (“perc” for short), a petroleum-based solvent that can be hazardous to the human central nervous system, with exposure causing headaches, nausea, dizziness and memory problems for some people. Perc’s constituent components—phosgene, vinyl...
Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss EarthTalk Carpeting is an oft-overlooked culprit when it comes to compromised indoor air quality, but the chemicals used to produce it are typically far from natural. According to the non-profit Environmental Working Group (EWG), most carpeting is made from synthetic fibers derived from non-renewable...
It seems to me the single biggest potential “environmental” problem we could face is a comet or asteroid striking the Earth. Do we currently track these space rocks? And do we have any hope of deflecting them if they are headed right for us? Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss...