Currently, President Obama is taking a tour of China in order to meet the Chinese president Hu Jintao.  One of their topmost discussion topics will, of course, be reduction of carbon emissions.  So far, President Hu has pledged to cut down on carbon intensity significantly by 2020.  This is in keeping with America’s significant drop [...]

Most Americans know of the wildly popular Cash for Clunkers program that the Obama administration put into action earlier this year.  The idea was that Americans could trade in their old, polluting cars to get a significant rebate on purchase of an eligible new car that would have far fewer emissions.  The program was so [...]

The Chinese government has reportedly denied proposals for 47 different industrial projects with the intent of both protecting the environment and stifling overproduction.  Many of these proposals were in the steel industry which is in line to produce more than 700 million tons of steel this year, though the market can only take in [...]

The past October has global warming advocates scratching their heads as record lows became the norm across the country.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported that, on average, the mainland US was the third coolest on record. Average temperatures were 4 degrees Fahrenheit below the long term average. Average rainfall was 4.15, twice the long [...]

According to a recently published article in the journal Chemosphere, an inexpensive new method has been developed to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so that it can be removed by sand filters.
The lead author of the article, Andy Hong, a University of Utah [...]