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Feds vs. California (round 2)

Submitted by ktfinklea on Monday, January 7, 2008.

According to an NRDC press release (seen below) California, along with an alliance of red and blue states and environmental partners, are asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to overturn the Bush administration's attempt to veto California's more stringent standards for car emissions. Since California has seen some of the worst impacts from global warming, it's understandable that they're not too jazzed about having D.C. feds tell them hey have no right to act in response to what's happening in their own backyards. Read the full press release below and then let us know how you feel about the issue.

Going, Going, Green

Submitted by akenedi on Thursday, October 4, 2007.

America's favorite past time and America's coolest new trend are finally teaming up. Yep, baseball is going green.

OMG-- We Need Ideas!

There are prizes, and then there’s the $25 million prize being offered by the world’s most freewheelin’ C.E.O., Virgin–founder Sir Richard Branson. Branson, he of the airline and music fortune, is promising to pony up this princely sum to anyone who can figure out how the heck to “scrub” carbon dioxide out of the Earth’s atmosphere. As the world’s brightest minds start jockeying to win the “Virgin Earth Challenge,” expect to see plans for some tripped-out sky vacuums and carbon-absorbing concoctions. (As you can see, we won’t be banking any of the twenty-five mil.)

There are prizes, and then there’s the $25 million prize being offered by the world’s most freewheelin’ C.E.O., Virgin–founder Sir Richard Branson. Branson, he of the airline and music fortune, is promising to pony up this princely sum to anyone who can figure out how the heck to “scrub” carbon dioxide out of the Earth’s atmosphere. As the world’s brightest minds start jockeying to win the “Virgin Earth Challenge,” expect to see plans for some tripped-out sky vacuums and carbon-absorbing concoctions. (As you can see, we won’t be banking any of the twenty-five mil.)

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