* Thatcher’s Science
Adviser To GOP: Fighting Global Warming Is Winning Issue
* Green Jobs, Black Jobs:
These Days, Any Jobs Will Do for Pennsylvania
* EPW’s weekly news
roundup
* WSJ’s Environmental
Capital Blog on Cap’n Trade: “Cushion the Economy, or Cushion the Voters?”
* … and one more from
their blog: “Environmental Opposition to Any Kind of Energy”
* Enviro-consciencious
Consumers Can Shut Their Pie-Holes: “your next meal could be the most powerful action you take
for the environment all day”
* In Case You Missed It:
U.N. Environment Head Wants Global Warming Tax
“For the first time in Gallup’s
25-year history of asking Americans about the trade-off between environmental protection and
economic growth, a majority of Americans say economic growth should be given the priority, even if
the environment suffers to some extent.”
Good news! As many as 59 percent of Americans
now support nuclear energy, according to the Gallup organization. Gallup notes there is still a
significant gender gap in support for nuclear, with 71 percent of men supporting it to only 47
percent of women.
“The threat of climate change has become
as fundamental to national security as nuclear weapons were during the Cold War”
- Sherri Goodman, a former deputy
undersecretary of Defense as quoted by E&E 3/17/2009
At least that’s the word from the
Freakonomics guys:
We reported a while
back that the true private mortality cost of smoking a pack of cigarettes is close to $222. It turns
out smoking has a serious environmental impact as well. Assuming all 5.5 trillion cigarettes
produced around the world each year get smoked, smokers produce 84,878 tons of particulate air
pollution annually - about half the pollution put out by all the cars in America.