Feb 21
2014
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Feb 21
2014
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2014
Feb 19
2014
West Side residents have long complained about trucks crossing the Peace Bridge because of diesel fumes that have been linked to respiratory illnesses. They now have another reason to be uncomfortable with truck traffic: rigs carrying high-level radioactive cargo. Federal authorities in May gave approval for a company to truck spent nuclear fuel over the Peace Bridge. They say there haven’t been any leaks or other problems involving similar shipments elsewhere. But some experts and activists are concerned the route approval is a prelude to shipping highly radioactive liquid waste. This would be unprecedented for North America, let alone the Peace[...]
Feb 19
2014
Sen. Chuck Schumer is good with Comcast’s pending purchase of Time-Warner. Would it have something to do with the fact his brother helped put the deal together? A report from our friends at Little Sis.
Feb 19
2014
Feb 17
2014
How does this sound for New Yorkers: saving $2,000 in annual energy costs. Or saving $4,100 per person in energy, health and climate costs each year? Those are just two estimates the Solutions Project presents if New York were to rely 100 percent on renewable energy by 2050. Sound crazy? Well, it isn’t. At least not to Mark Jacobson, a senior fellow at Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, who partnered with scientists at Cornell University and University of California-Davis to research how feasible it would be to convert New York’s energy infrastructure to renewable wind, water and solar. Their[...]
Feb 17
2014
Feb 14
2014
“Trump very badly wants to be taken seriously as a potential political candidate and not be written off as a man-boy who cried wolf. But, at the same time, he plainly has no interest in actually running for office,” reports BuzzFeed in an interesting profile.