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US Congress tries to slow down transition to efficient bulbs as India strikes deal to buy 13 million of them
"This is an early Christmas present for all Americans. It restores the freedom, at least temporarily, for you to choose the light bulbs you want to illuminate your home," Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, said in a statement after the House voted Friday. (The Senate followed on Saturday.) Barton said the sp...
Posted on 23 December 2011 | 11:16 pm
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United States scores low on climate action in 2011, 2012 likely to be worse
Coming into 2011, a big question was how far Congress would go (and how far the administration would go along) in slowing or stopping action by the EPA and other federal agencies. While the House repeatedly approved anti-environment and anti-climate measures, those efforts did not make it through th...
Posted on 22 December 2011 | 8:57 pm
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Nuclear Energy as a Clean Energy? We Don't Have ANY Technology to Treat Nuclear Wastes
Even low-level radioactive waste is a growing problem, with few licensed repositories to dispose of it. The problem dates from the early 1980s, when Congress said that the federal government would take care of high-level waste, like spent fuel from nuclear power plants, but that the states would hav...
Posted on 18 June 2010 | 11:26 pm
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