Massachusetts v. EPA
Finally, the supreme court is hearing it's first case on global warming. This case is over motor-vehicle emissions, and the scope of the federal Clean Air Act.
...The dispute revolves around a part of the Clean Air Act that requires regulation of "any air pollutant" from vehicles that "may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare." The act defines "welfare" to include effects on climate and weather.The states say the Clean Air Act plainly authorizes regulation of greenhouse gases and that if the EPA were to step in, it could address "sources responsible for some 60% of this country's carbon dioxide emissions — 23% from vehicles and the rest from the power plants left unregulated" by the EPA. "We simply want the justices to tell EPA to get it right on the law," says Lisa Heinzerling, a Georgetown University professor assisting the Massachusetts assistant attorney general.
Its about time someone forced the EPA to actually protect the environment from greenhouse gasses.
Season on Impact
Okay... This is too hilarious to not post:
Season Shot, the environmentally friendly bird shot that kills with flavor.
Here's the gist: It's a rifle round that has a tightly-packed mass of seasonings taking the place of lead shot. When you cook the bird, the seasonings melt into it, and if you miss, its biodegradable, so its better for the environment. The things people think up are just wild sometimes.
It hasn't come out yet, but it has a fledgling site, albeit one that skews slightly to the left in firefox *tisk tisk*, and the concept is really great, if your a hunter that is. I used to hunt birds many years ago, now I just go fishing with Amme. At least if you do hunt with this and are a bad shot, you're helping the environment.
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