Archive for ‘Peeps and Places’
President Bush Asks OPEC To Keep Oil Prices Low
January 15th, 2008
President Bush has traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet with OPEC to plea the United States’ case for keeping oil prices low.
Popularity: 3%
Guatemala to open park at ancient Maya ruins
January 15th, 2008
Guatemala will create a tourist park at the ruins of an ancient Maya city that is home to one of the world’s largest pyramids, the country’s president said Monday.The Maya built soaring temples and elaborate palaces in Central America and southern Mexico before mysteriously abandoning their cities around 900 A.D.
Popularity: 3%
High Court declines air safeguards case
January 14th, 2008
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear industry complaints that the Environmental Protection Agency should have dropped some old clean air safeguards when it imposed a more stringent air quality standard for ozone.
Popularity: 2%
German company building solar factory in ABQ
January 14th, 2008
GERMAN-BASED ‘SCHOTT A-G’ WILL BREAK GROUND ON THE FACTORY NEXT MONTH. THE COMPANY WILL BUILD A 200- THOUSAND SQUARE FOOT PLANT IN THE MESA DEL SOL AREA. THE 500- MILLION DOLLAR FACILITY SHOULD OPEN IN 2009 AND COULD CREATE UP TO 15-HUNDRED JOBS. ‘i’m very excited about this. When we land companies like schott, I mean, this is a homerun …
Popularity: 2%
China eyes energy, environment ministries in March
January 14th, 2008
China will likely get an energy ministry in March and upgrade its environment watchdog to ministry status, sources said on Monday, as it aims to boost fuel security with oil at $100 a barrel and cut back on pollution.
Popularity: 6%
State Faces Showdown With EPA Over Emissions
January 14th, 2008
Conservation groups are backing the state in their quest for tighter emissions standards.
Popularity: 5%
188,000 Pounds Of Beef Recalled In E-Coli Scare
January 14th, 2008
A Minnesota meat packer has issued a recall of 188,000 pounds of beef after a few instances of EC-oli having been found, including in California.
Popularity: 4%
Follow Germany on renewable energy, Clinton says
January 12th, 2008
Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton wants America to follow Germany’s lead — and her own — in using environmentally friendly fuel sources and making homes and buildings more energy efficient.
Popularity: 5%
Calif leaders voice EPA frustrations
January 11th, 2008
A panel of outraged state and environmental leaders met Thursday to examine why the federal government won’t let California and 16 other states regulate emissions from cars, trucks and SUVs.
Popularity: 4%
First-Ever Ice Runway in Antarctica
January 11th, 2008
Australian scientists landed on an ice runway in Antarctica, officially opening a new air link between Australia and the white continent. The Airbus A319 became the first passenger aircraft to land on the 2.5-mile long Wilkins Runway.
Popularity: 2%
Naples to burn rotting rubbish
January 10th, 2008
The Italian government is sending in troops to clear away plies of rubbish on Naples’ streets.
Popularity: 3%
Rainy season brings death in Bolivia
January 9th, 2008
Last year, flooding killed thirty-five people and tens of thousands of cattle. The damage was so severe that Bolivia was forced to cut its economic growth forecasts.
Popularity: 4%
Shoppers: It’s BYO bag in China
January 9th, 2008
Declaring war on the “white pollution” choking its cities, farms and waterways, China is banning free plastic shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old — steps largely welcomed by merchants and shoppers on Wednesday.
Popularity: 4%
Illegal fishing endangers species
January 9th, 2008
Environmentalists say the killing of thousands of rare Olive Ridley turtles has become routine and no action is being taken by the government.
Popularity: 2%
Pollution alert declared in Sarajevo after days of heavy fog
January 9th, 2008
The first of three levels of alert on dangerous air pollution was declared in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, the Ministry of Environmental Planning of Sarajevo Canton confirmed Wednesday.
Popularity: 2%
