huffingtonpost — NEW YORK -- Instead of complaining about clean air rules, maybe utilities should cheer them. Sometimes, the rules lead to big gains. First Energy, a utility based in Ohio, got such a boost Thursday, a week after the company announced it would close six...
huffingtonpost.ca — Hundreds of protesters are taking to the streets of Prince Rupert, B.C., to oppose Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta's oilsands to Kitimat, a port on the northern B.C. coast. The super-sized rally is being hosted by the...
huffingtonpost — Puppy Bowl VIII will soon be here and we're getting ready by whiling away the hours watching adorable puppy videos. When we came across an adorable video of puppies stampeding, we asked ourselves the most important question of our lives: are there more? And, as always, YouTube delivered. So here...
huffingtonpost — COOLIN, Idaho -- Woodland caribou, rarely-seen creatures that with their antlers stand as tall as a man, are struggling to survive in the United States, precariously occupying one remote area of the Northwest as a final toehold in the Lower 48. The federal government has proposed designating about 600 square miles...
huffingtonpost — WASHINGTON -- Sen. Richard Burr's vocal opposition to the STOCK Act raised some eyebrows in Washington this week, and with good reason. Burr, a North Carolina Republican who was one of just three senators to vote against the ban on congressional insider trading Thursday, owns investments in the natural gas...
huffingtonpost — Dan Schachner, the official Puppy Bowl referee, sat down to explain the rules of the 8th annual Animal Planet Puppy Bowl. According to him, "the rules are a little looser than your regular NFL game." Schachner's role as ref involves calling penalties, one of his favorites being "fouling of the...
huffingtonpost — COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Proposed legislation in Ohio would ban the purchase of lions, bears and other exotic animals, but current owners of the dangerous wildlife would be allowed to keep them as pets if they meet strict new requirements. State Sen. Troy Balderson sent a letter Friday afternoon to state lawmakers,...
greenphonebooth — The Booth welcomes guest poter Kenna Lee.Truth is, disconnected from mainstream media as I am, Groundhog Day doesn’t usually cross my radar. Most years, I don’t notice that January is over until Groundhog Day has come and gone. But this year, my son hand-drew a calendar as a school project...
huffingtonpost — DENVER -- The most powerful storm of the winter season pounded Colorado with up to 6 feet of snow in the Rocky Mountain foothills and forced the cancellation of more than 600 flights in Denver before heading east toward the central plains. Blizzard conditions that hit the eastern Colorado plains, including...
theoildrum — Gazprom 'unable to pump extra gas to Europe' Gazprom said on Saturday it could not pump additional gas to Western Europe amid a cold snap, after EU officials said the Russian giant's deliveries had dropped in several countries. "Gazprom at the moment cannot satisfy the additional volumes that our Western European partners...
greencarcongress — SPX Service Solutions, a business unit of SPX Corporation (earlier post), and Aker Wade Power Technologies, LLC, a designer and manufacturer of advanced fast charging systems (earlier post), signed a letter of intent jointly to develop a new family of practical electric vehicle (EV) fast chargers for the global vehicle...
huffingtonpost — Today, our journey takes us to Neko Harbor, one of the prime locations in this region to view glaciers. These towering walls of ice are a majestic sight, and a humbling reminder of the fragility of the natural systems that human beings depend upon for life as we know it. As...
huffingtonpost — Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox and his crew on Wednesday walked into a congressional hearing on hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," a controversial natural gas drilling technique. Fox left in handcuffs, charged with unlawful entry. The meeting of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment was focused on the Environmental Protection Agency's Dec....
huffingtonpost — DENVER (AP) — The federal government's new plan for oil shale development on public lands would keep activity off thousands of acres of environmentally sensitive areas, with new leases initially being issued strictly for research on how to commercially produce oil from oil shale in Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. ...
huffingtonpost — Over the years PETA's sexy Super Bowl ads have become a bit of a pastime in the run up to the big game. Especially since every year, NBC politely declines $3 million and prevents the Super Bowl commercial from airing. Take a look at some of the most scandalous PETA videos...
huffingtonpost — When we read that someone started a retirement home for Burmese Pythons, HuffPost Miami called up the program to see if this invasive species was really playing shuffleboard and mahjong in Palm Beach. "It's not a retirement home, but an intermediary adoption center," explained Howard Passman, executive director of the...
ecorazzi — Unfortunately for horses, the diving show at the Atlantic City Steel Pier will be returning this summer. Read More
huffingtonpost — A Chilean man is skating on thin ice after he was allegedly caught with over 11,000 pounds (five metric tons) of glacial ice in a truck. According to BBC News, the man, who was caught in the Patagonian town of Cochrane, was likely headed for the capital Santiago. The ice would...
huffingtonpost — On Wednesday, the Sierra Club and the Presidio Historical Association filed a federal lawsuit against the San Francisco Presidio Trust in an effort to stop construction on the Inn at the Presidio -- a 22-room inn and the first hotel in the Presidio. In the lawsuit, the Sierra Club and...
greencarcongress — Algae producer Aquaviridis has signed a commercial agreement with OriginOil, Inc. to help develop the multi-phase algae production rollout at its Mexicali, Mexico site, a potential model for algae sites throughout the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) region, with a focus on desert areas of the American Southwest and...
wattwatt — Posted on February 3, 2012 by luciani luciferian SEPEDA MOTOR INJEKSI IRIT HARGA TERBAIK CUMA HONDA PT Astra Honda Motor (AHJ), sepeda motor Honda produksi dan penjualan bersama venture di Indonesia, menyatakan bahwa akan menginstal lingkungan yang bertanggung jawab, yang dikontrol secara elektronik sistem bahan bakar injeksi, PGM-FI (Programmed Fuel Injection),...
huffingtonpost — After Susan G. Komen for the Cure came under a firestorm of criticism for cutting off hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Planned Parenthood for administering breast exams to low-income women, Komen announced that it is reversing its position and will reinstate the existing grants. If only Planned...
old.news.yahoo — Reuters - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Friday awarded $40.2 million in grants to farmers, ranchers and farmer-controlled rural business ventures aimed at spurring locally produced food supplies and renewable energy ventures.
huffingtonpost — Two House committees voted on Thursday and Friday to eliminate federal funding for a program that creates bicycle and pedestrian paths for children going to school and to cut off mass transit from its major source of federal funding, the gas tax. The House's actions, propelled by GOP leadership, could politicize...
greencarcongress — Proposed oil sands monitoring by 2015. Click to enlarge. The Government of Canada and Government of Alberta unveiled “The Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring” in a partnership to improve environmental monitoring in the oil sands region with a program that will sample more sites for more substances more...