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Full Steam Ahead For California Geothermal Plans?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 18th, 2010
National Public Radio: Right below your feet is enough potential clean energy to keep the whole country humming with electricity for 30,000 years, according to Department of Energy calculations. And this geothermal energy could play a big role in California as the state strives to reach an ambitious clean energy target by 2020. But there is a catch: We have to get to it. Running Out Of Steam About two hours north of San Francisco, atop a ridge crisscrossed with pipes, is the world's biggest ...
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The Lessons to be Learned From Russia’s Fires
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 18th, 2010
Huffington Post: Russia is burning. The record-breaking temperatures that are gripping Russia have fueled hundreds of fires and caused a mounting number of deaths. The most intense heat wave in the country's 130 years of record keeping has destroyed thousands of homes, decimated over 30 percent of Russia's wheat crop, ravaged the environment and infrastructure of many cities, and led to states of emergency in 35 regions. The air is so choked with soot that one of the country's chief medical ...
Murky Relationships Mark Scientific Efforts to Assess Gulf Spill’s Impacts
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 18th, 2010
Greenwire: Lawmakers have criticized BP PLC for attempting to "muzzle" scientists researching the Gulf of Mexico oil spill with confidentiality agreements and blocking the "open exchange of scientific data and analysis." But the government is employing similar tactics itself. The government is hiring expert witnesses under confidentiality agreements as it builds a legal case documenting the oil spill's environmental impact and determining how much BP and its partners should pay to restore the ...