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Be prepared for electric shock

(May 22, 2010) If you haven’t already, you’re about to get a nasty shock when you open your electricity bill. Continue reading

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It’s the Sun, stupid

(May 22, 2010) Four years ago, when I first started profiling scientists who were global warming skeptics, I soon learned two things: Solar scientists were overwhelmingly skeptical that humans caused climate change and, overwhelmingly, they were reluctant to go public with their views. Continue reading

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Lawrence Solomon: Solar scientists worldwide working to counter global warming hypothesis

(May 19, 2010) Solar scientists worldwide are working to disprove the hypothesis that man is primarily responsible for climate change, according to Dr. Jeff Kuhn, Associate Director of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii. Continue reading

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Aldyen Donnelly: Sticking it to the Canadians

After I read the original draft Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reporting regulations, I phoned US EPA contacts as well as some staff in Senate and House representatives offices and asked: Given that all major US stationary GHG sources and importers of carbon-based energy and building products are required to report GHGs from biomass use and will eventually be liable for domestic production and the US consumer end use GHGs:

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Sources: A US$13-billion business

Minerals Management Service: People Promoting Energy, the Environment, and the Economy

Minerals Management Service Disburses $10.68 Billion in FY 2009

Minerals Management Service: Royalty Relief
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Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case–control study

(May 17, 2010) A study on the possible health risks related to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from cell phone technology. Continue reading

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Interphone study reports on mobile phone use and brain cancer risk

(May 17, 2010) The Interphone Study Group today published their results in the International Journal of Epidemiology (direct media link). The paper presents the results of analyses of brain tumour (glioma and meningioma) risk in relation to mobile phone use in all Interphone study centres combined. Continue reading

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Brain tumour risk in relation to mobile telephone use: results of the INTERPHONE international case–control study

(May 17, 2010) The rapid increase in mobile telephone use has generated concern about possible health risks related to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from this technology. Continue reading

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Interphone study reports on mobile phone use and brain cancer risk

(May 17, 2010) The Interphone Study Group today published their results in the International Journal of Epidemiology (direct media link). The paper presents the results of analyses of brain tumour (glioma and meningioma) risk in relation to mobile phone use in all Interphone study centres combined. Continue reading

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A US$13-billion business

Is it any wonder that the BP calamity occurred? Here’s what has been preoccupying its environmental regulator, the Minerals Management Service, ever since MMS was established in 1982.

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