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This year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ranked Harvard number three among higher-ed green power purchasers in the country. With the upcoming Go Cold Turkey competition, if enough buildings win, Harvard could push this to number...
This is an important opportunity for Harvard to lead the nation. The pollution from energy generation is a critical environmental and human health issue. The EPA says electricity production is the largest industrial polluter in the U.S. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the wide-scale emission of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is among the chief factors driving global warming and climate change...
...TIME's 200-mile test drive of one of the first production models, which is identical to the models consumers are getting, the Escape Hybrid's fuel economy matched or beat its EPA ratings of 36 m.p.g. in the city and 31 m.p.g. on the highway. TIME got 36 m.p.g. in the city and 34 m.p.g. on the highway, according to the dashboard display...
...neurological development of their babies may have good reason to fret. An analysis of hair samples sponsored by Greenpeace and conducted by the University of North Carolina at Asheville found that in 21% of the women of childbearing age tested, ages 16 to 49, mercury levels exceeded the EPA's recommended limit. What's the cause? The biggest single factor was seafood consumption. The nation's biggest mercury polluter? Coal-burning power plants...
Dissenting parties will be able to make legal challenges, both within the EPA and in circuit court...