Edited from a [ ResourceShelf.com post] Creating Alerts For a “simple” alert, just run a Google Scholar search, click the search button, and get your results. Click the “Envelope” icon (top left side of the page). Here, you can revise your strategy, if you wish and click the “update” button. Google will post results under … Continue reading »
Posted on May 13, 2010 …
India : Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2007
The Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment and the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests http://moef.nic.in/downloads/public-information/Report_INCCA.pdf Executive Summary: http://tinyurl.com/32q6phy [Green Car Congress] India has released a report on its greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, becoming the first “non-Annex I” (i.e. developing) country to publish such updated numbers. The country will also publish its emissions inventory … Continue reading »
CBO Cost Estimate : S. 3249 Predisaster Hazard Mitigation Act of 2010
Congressional Budget Office http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/114xx/doc11497/s3249.pdf Summary: S. 3249 would authorize appropriations to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for grants to states and localities for predisaster mitigation programs, such as constructing levies, relocating homes from flood-prone areas, and retrofitting buildings in earthquake zones. CBO estimates that implementing this legislation would cost $630 million over the 2011-2015 … Continue reading »
Annual Energy Outlook 2010
US DOE. Energy Information Administration http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/aeo/index.html [From press release] The projected level of total U.S. energy use depends significantly on the rate of economic growth, which is assumed to be 2.4 percent annually from 2008 to 2035 in the AEO2010 Reference case…he AEO2010 Reference case does not include potential future policies that have not yet … Continue reading »
California Air Resources Board Workshop on Changes to Low Emission Vehicle Regulations for Criteria Pollutants
California Air Resources Board http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?BDO=1 February ARB discussion paper: http://tinyurl.com/35bk3y5 [Green Car Congress] The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is developing a proposal for more stringent emission requirements for new passenger vehicles, to be considered by the Board later this year. ARB will hold a one-day workshop to discuss ARB staff’s preliminary thoughts and sources … Continue reading »
Legislative Approaches to Defining “Waters of the United States”
Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41225.pdf [From summary] In the 111th Congress, legislation has been introduced that seeks to clarify the scope of the Clean Water Act (CWA) in the wake of Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 that interpreted the law’s jurisdiction more narrowly than prior case law. The Court’s narrow interpretation involved jurisdiction over … Continue reading »
Chesapeake Bay Executive Order : New Federal Strategy for Chesapeake Launches Major Initiatives and Holds Government Accountable for Progress
US EPA http://executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net/ The “Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed” was developed under the executive order issued by President Obama in May 2009, which declared the Chesapeake Bay a national treasure and ushered in a new era of shared federal leadership, action and accountability. The new federal strategy for the Chesapeake region … Continue reading »
Global Biodiversity Outlook 3
Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) http://www.cbd.int/gbo/gbo3/doc/GBO3-final-en.pdf [UN Pulse] …the 2010 target to reduce biodiversity loss has not been met. The report concluded: We can no longer see the continued loss of biodiversity as an issue separate from the core concerns of society: to tackle poverty, to improve the health, … Continue reading »
4th Annual Green Building Survey
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP http://www.allenmatkins.com/emails/GreenSurvey/index.asp [From Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] Fourth Annual Green Building Survey by Allen Matkins, Constructive Technologies Group (CTG) and the Green Building Insider reveals surprising results regarding green construction. The Green Building Survey, completed by more than 1,600 design and construction professionals from across the … Continue reading »
American Power Act
US Senators Kerry and Lieberman http://kerry.senate.gov/americanpoweract/pdf/APAbill.pdf [Climate Progress] You can read the leaked 21-page draft Section-by-Section description of the American Power Act here (big PDF). You can read the leaked 4-page “draft short summary” by clicking here. Brookings scholars on the bill: http://tinyurl.com/2fajq53 John Whitehead at env-econ.net: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2wqoqnb
