Air & Climate Files 
2006

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The Neurobiology of Mass Delusion - Energy Bulletin 11jan05
Boulder Glacier Photos in 1932 and 1988  -  witness the drastic change in only 56 years

 

Goodbye to America's   Village Idiot ! George W. Bush

It doesn't feel hotter to me. — George W. Bush

2006

• Hospitals Won't Let Smokers Light Up Anywhere on Grounds - Seattle Times 2dec2006
• Himalayan Communities Face Catastrophic Floods as Weather Patterns Alter - The Guardian (UK) 2dec2006
• Supreme Court Takes Up Global Warming Case - New York Times 30nov2006
• Warmer Oceans Storing Climate Change Dangers - The Guardian (UK) 29nov2006
• Ross Ice Shelf: Scientists Fear Results of Collapsed Ice Shelf - The Press (New Zealand) 29nov2006
• Global Warming Case Goes Before Supreme Court - Reuters 28nov2006
  • Global Warming: Massachusetts v. EPA Docketed: 7mar2006
• 2005 Set Greenhouse Gas Record - AP 3nov2006
  • WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin: The State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere Using Global Observations through 2005 -  1nov2006
• UK: Global Warming Will Devastate Global Economy, British Government Report Warns - AP / Seattle Times 30oct2006
• UK: Sir Nicholas to Read the Riot Act in New Report on Climate Change - The Independent (UK) 29oct2006
• President Bush on Energy - Interview by Wall Street Journal 29sep2006
• California AB 32 -- Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 - 27sep2006
• California Plan to Cut Gases Splits Industry -  New York Times 1sep2006
• Hottest July since the Dust Bowl in 1936: Nearly $800M Going to Drought Aid - AP 29aug2006
• Vanishing Glaciers: Global Warming - Via  (AAA) 20aug2006
• Director of the U.S. National Hurricane Center Says Worst Is Yet To Come - Reuters 22aug2006
• Hurricanes Heating Up - ScienceNOW Daily News 17aug2006
• Greenland's Ice Loss Accelerating: Three Times Faster Than Past Years - USA Today 15aug2006
• Eastern United States Swelters Through Heat Wave - Reuters 1aug2006
• If You Thought Last Week Was Hot . . .  - San Francisco Chronicle 1aug2006
• More Than 60 Percent of U.S. Now Has Abnormally Dry or Drought Conditions; Dakotas at 'Epicenter' -  AP 29jul2006
• Many Cleaners, Air Fresheners May Pose Health Risks When Used Indoors - Science Daily 24may2006
  • Cleaning Agents, Ozone and Toxic Air Contaminants: Glycol Ethers and Terpenes - California Air Resources Board 10may2006
• Judges Overturn Bush Bid to Ease Pollution Rules -  New York Times 18mar2006
  • Bush's EPA v. Clean Air Act - United States Court of Appeals Decision 17mar2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: Blowing Smoke At Us - Paul Goettlich / Berkeley Daily Planet 14mar2006
  • Calcifire Sand Reclamation Technology [Incinerator]
• Global Warming: Massachusetts v. EPA Docketed: 7mar2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: Newcomer Takes On Pacific Steel Casting Pollution -  Berkeley Daily Planet 3mar2006
• Bush Was Told of Levees' Possible Failure Before Katrina -  Knight Ridder 1mar2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: Letter to Jack Broadbent, APCO, Bay Area Air Quality Management District 27feb2006
• Global Warming 30 Times Quicker Than It Used To Be -  The Independent (UK) 18feb2006
• Sea Levels Likely to Rise Much Faster Than Was Predicted -  The Independent (UK) 17feb2006
• Greenland Ice Cap Breaking Up Twice the Rate of Five Years Ago - The Independent (UK) 17feb2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: Watchdog Group Will Sue Pacific Steel - Berkeley Daily Planet 3feb2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: Residents Not Satisfied with Pacific Steel Plant Deal - Berkeley Voice 3feb2006
• NASA's Inspector General Probed: Failure to Investigate Safety Violations and Retaliating Against Whistle-Blowers - Washington Post 3feb2006
• It's Capitalism or a Habitable Planet - You Can't Have Both - Guardian (UK) 2feb2006
• Pacific Steel Casting: Clean Air Coalition Demands Immediate Abatement of Intolerable Nuisance - Clean Air Coalition (CAC) 30jan2006

• Bush Admin Tried To Silence NASA Scientist From Speaking About Greenhouse Gasses: Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies -  New York Times 29jan2006

• Russia: Great Russian Freeze Spreads West - BBC News (Many articles) 21jan2006

• Japan: Cold Stunts Harvest; Vegetable Prices Soar to 20 to 50 Percent Above Average - Asahi Shimbun (Japan) 12jan2006

• Scientists Question Trees' Role in Global Warming - Agence France-Presse (AFP) 12jan2006

• The Coming Meltdown - The New York Review of Books 12jan2006

• Air Raid: Mercury Falling Into Indiana Lakes - 2006

Incinerators

• Long-range Air Transport of Dioxin from N.  American Sources to Ecologically Vulnerable Receptors in Nunavut, Arctic Canada  Barry Commoner CBNS Sep00
• Is Dioxin Destroyed by Extremely High-Temperature Incineration?  Comments on Rigo et al.
• Children living near Incinerators & Landfills More likely to get Cancers - (3 separate abstracts) 

• "New Car Smell" - Volatile Organic Compounds In a New Automobile Scientific Instrument Services 23dec99

• Ban the Burn Barrels! Evaluation of Emissions from the Open Burning of Household Waste In Barrels - Report No. EPA-600/R-97-134a. Nov97

• Dioxin: EPA Collusion with Industry: A Very Brief Overview   -  Synthesis/Regeneration 7-8 Summer 1995

• Hazardous Waste Combustion in Cement Kilns - Introduction to Policy and Legal Issues Associated with Burning Hazardous Waste in Cement Kilns Apr95

• Substances in Diesel Exhaust Listed by Cal EPA as Toxic Air Contaminants

• What's Wrong With Incineration Of Medical Wastes -  Huff, MJ, and deFur, P., Virginia Commonwealth University- Center for Environmental Studies (undated)

• Incinerators & Landfills - Cancers in Proximity to Incinerators (3 separate abstracts) Jun00

• Incinerators & Landfills - Childhood cancers, birthplaces, incinerators and landfill sites  -  International Journal of Epidemiology Jun00

 

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