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- NOAA sounding like Noah: head for the hills
- Here are some findings on global warming released just now by NOAA. Heat waves will become more frequent and intense, increasing threats to human health and quality of life. Extreme heat will also affect transportation and energy systems, and crop and livestock production. ·...
- Tags: Report, NOAA, Transportation, Healthcare, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-16
- Teflon: is it safe?
- A comment to one of my recent posts said: "Hey you wanna do a story? Try researching Teflon and what the FDA's special group studying it has been up to and what the manufacturer has been doing. Then think about all the teflon coating in fast food, popcorn and cooking...
- Tags: FDA, DuPont Co., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Teflon, Federal Government, Food & Beverage, Government, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Iceland could become a green hub for global cloud computing
- Iceland is in a bit of trouble these days, its economy collapsed last year when its three largest banks failed. And so now it is being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund and trying to get its economy on an even keel. One of Iceland's most...
- Tags: Geothermal Energy, Data Center, Aluminum, Iceland, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
- New carbon monitoring resources available via the Web
- If one of your near-year-end resolutions is to build out the carbon and greenhouse gas emissions reporting for your company, there are a couple of new resources that have been released in the past week. First off, Sun Microsystems has updated the tools that are available on...
- Tags: Web, Monitoring, Greenhouse Gas, Greenhouse Gas Emission, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-17
- EPA scientists face political pressure
- The Union of Concerned Scientists has documented widespread political interference at the Environmental Protection Agency. The group conducted a broad investigation that combined interviews, analysis of documents and 1,600 responses to a survey. The results of these investigations show an agency under siege from...
- Tags: Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Marketing Research, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-04-24
- Inhale some of that good, clean country air...hah!
- Many of the environmental issues involve systems so large, and complex and far-reaching, you can feel irrelevant. Really, how much can one person or even a small business do to change the U.S. dependence on fossil fuels for transport and electricity? Chnage a few light bulbs, walk more....
- Tags: Factory, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Fuming over fumes: E.P.A. is 0 for 3 with a loss in the blogosphere
- The Environmental Protection Agency Orwellian doublespeak in its current incarnation seems to be having its own lame duck problems during the final months of the current American regime. The latest two attacks come from the non-executive parts of the federal government itself. A federal appeals court...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Blogosphere, Blogging, Federal Government, Internet, Government, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-10
- Oil hits $100, Wall Street bulls trample American consumers
- It's a new year but the same old story. Oil's well that ends well, and the oil boys are at stratospheric prices for their crude to start this U.S. election season. Of course by now we all know the litany. Higher energy prices raises the price of...
- Tags: State, Wall, New Hampshire, Marketwatch, MTBE, Fuel Cells, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Let the lawsuits ensue
- It ain't over 'til. it's over to paraphrase that great sports philosopher Yogi Berra. And the battle is now joined between states wanting tighter auto emissions controls and the current White House which wants tighter political controls. The most populous state with the most cars on the road,...
- Tags: Lawsuit, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-20
- E.P.A. the Environmental Pollution Agency?
- The E.P.A. will refuse to let California and other states set stricter anti-pollution limits on cars. This is all for the sake of a clear national policy according to the head of the EPA, "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Standards, State, Bush, Quality, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-19
- Bali highs and lows
- The big climate change enviro-bash continues in Bali. Here's the conference's official website. Tomorrow BaliTalk enters the final phase with ministerial level participants arriving (that's Cabinet-level to us Yanks). It's not likely there'll be a big international agreement out of this conference even though it's aimed at finding the...
- Tags: U.S., China, Associated Press, Story, Headline, Conference, Standards, Quality, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-11
- EPA, CO2, coal and mercury
- The E.P.A. is embroiled in several crucial green tech issues right now. The newest alarm has been sounded by forces wanting the Environmental Procrastination Agency to do something about CO2 emissions from airplanes. Who are they kidding? Do something? It's a serious-enough issue, and...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, E.P.A., Airline Industry, Mercury, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- Coal pollution lawsuit settled as the whole game has changed
- Back in 1999 the federal government and other plaintiffs filed a lawsuit against American Electric Power. AEP was accused of violating the Federal Clean Air Act and causing acid rain with pollutants from its coal-burning generating plants. The plants are located in Ohio and the Appalachia region. AEP...
- Tags: Game, Lawsuit, Settlement, Pollution, AEP, Litigation, Business Operations, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- The cost of a bicycle
- The cost of a bicycleLived through itin the 70's, the Great Lakes were being polluted on a grand scale. DDT, PCBs, etc. were drained into the lakes through polluted streams and rivers. Remember when Lake Erie caught fire?What happened since? The US and Canada realized the problems were getting out-of-hand,...
- Tags: Strategy, personal property, Great Lakes, pollution
- Discussion threads 2006-05-26
- The new world of 'blogjects'
- With "Why Things Matter," Julian Bleecker, a researcher at the University of Southern California, has written a "Manifesto for Networked Objects" (PDF format, 17 pages, 939 KB). In this document, he describes what he calls "blogjects" or "objects that blog." The three major characteristics of a blogject are its sense...
- Tags: blogject, Things Matter
- Blog posts 2006-03-15
- The politics of science
- Abuse of science from public affairs departments is not limited to NASA, it seems. In an editorial today, the Washington Post writes that across the science agencies, data is being held hostage to politics. The spectacle of a young political appointee with no college degree exerting crude...
- Tags: agency
- Blog posts 2006-02-09
- Can we make the U.S. more competitive?
- Can we make the U.S. more competitive?Pick your battlesSpeaking as the parent of three college students, it doesn't make sense to study industrial subjects (engineering etc.) when the US is deindustrializing.With the US having negative net growth in engineering employment and an accelerating technical unemployment rate, it makes [b]vastly[/b] more...
- Tags: Regulations, real estate, Superfund, U.S. More, LORDS, H1-B Visas, worker
- Discussion threads 2005-08-22
- The Environment Agency Guards Against IT Disruption
- As the leading public body for protecting the environment in England and Wales, the Environment Agency has a wide spectrum of responsibilities. They include reducing and adapting to two major environmental risks: climate change and flooding. Some aspects of the agency's work, such as issuing flood warnings and responding to...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Environment, Pollution
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