As if people need another reason to switch over to hybrid gasoline-electric automobiles, Travelers, the country’s fourth largest property and casualty insurer, will begin next month offering its customers who drive hybrids a 10 percent discount on their auto insurance.
David Acheson, the chief medical officer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), told reporters last week that his agency has begun an investigation into whether some brands of canned tuna fish contain unacceptably high levels of mercury, a prevalent environmental toxin known to cause human reproductive and neurological maladies.
Accumulation of methane in the Earth’s atmosphere has nearly doubled around the globe over the past 200 years. Scientists believe that rising concentrations of this “greenhouse gas,” which absorbs and sends infrared radiation to the Earth
Dishwashers are the way to go if you comply with two simple criteria. “Run a dishwasher only when it’s full, and don’t rinse your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher.” So says John Morril of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
There was big news out of Bloomington, Illinois this week: SUVs are no safer for kids than are passenger cars, largely because of much greater rollover risk! It astonished me to see this in big headlines everywhere, because I’ve been reporting on it for years. It’s true, read my lips: SUVs are not safer than cars.
Citing ongoing problems with debris and demolition waste, officials from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are concerned about environmental problems caused by the Indian Ocean tsunami a year ago continuing to plague the region. While the December 2004 tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 12 countries and left millions of homes and businesses in ruin, officials are now most worried about the killer wave’s environmental aftermath.
Many environmentalists cheered when Democratic Senators blocked efforts to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil drilling a couple of weeks ago, but players on both sides of the issue concede that the long-running battle is not over.
Biologists and environmentalists agree that the best way to deal with problem bears is to prevent human-bear encounters in the first place.
The issue isn’t whether we’re running out of oil but when will we reach the peak oil production, after which the decline will inevitably clash with demand.
90% of Americans believe oil companies are gouging gas consumers, and 80% support a windfall profits tax to fund alternative energy research.
