‘Green News Report’ – February 17, 2009

With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen...

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It’s our premiere edition of the Green News Report on the web!
So we celebrate by both of us having a cold!

In today’s report we discuss the green in the massive stimulus bill, the undoing of last minute Bush administration EPA regulations, birds flying north for the winter, and dirty nuts!

Got thoughts for us? Wanna help sponsor the GNR? Let us know at GreenNews@BradBlog.com, or leave comments below.

Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen 2/17/2009
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‘Green News Report’ – February 17, 2009

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    karen from illinois said on 2/17/2009 @ 8:27pm PT: [Permalink]

    i am srry to hear the clean coal thing didnt make the final cut…i honestly thought pumping emissions underground sounded like a good idea

    interesting broadcast tho brad gj

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    DES said on 2/17/2009 @ 9:04pm PT: [Permalink]

    Karen — according to Grist.org, there is language in the bill that includes $3.4 billion for “fossil energy research and development,” so some of that could conceivably be used for carbon-capture and storage projects (CCS).

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    ArchiCoot said on 2/18/2009 @ 6:09am PT: [Permalink]

    How about some concise one sentence analysis with the cursory announcements on the Green News Report !
    It’s easy to say there is no such thing as clean coal… and there isn’t… but why not get people to think and use common sense.
    You can even be cute about it…. something like….

    “What goes up must come down or as applied to clean coal…. what goes down must eventually come up. We’ve heard no realistic plan for dealing with the CO2 in the future. Sounds like another major long-term pollution issue like nuclear waste.”

    You can also point out that the CO2 emissions and global climate change are only one major concern with processing coal into electricity…. don’t forget the thousands of toxic heavy metal ash sludge ponds like the one in Tennessee that inundated a beautiful landscape and is ruining the lives of hundreds if not thousands of people, or the smokestack emissions still polluting the air.

    On the bird front… I grew up waiting for the first Robin of spring to show up in March to know that warmer weather is coming soon. Up here in Vermont I’ve already seen flocks of Robins since January 21st, and just saw a flock of Cedar Waxwings yesterday. We’ve also had the warmest February that I can remember.

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    wayne3 said on 2/18/2009 @ 8:33am PT: [Permalink]

    Great new feature. Let us know where and when you might be running your Green News on radio on your upcoming appearances section.

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    Ancient said on 2/18/2009 @ 11:00am PT: [Permalink]

    Excellent! People I can trust to report facts not fictions doing green news. Outstanding Brad and Desi!

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    Phil said on 2/18/2009 @ 3:24pm PT: [Permalink]

    Can Wiccan’s or Satanists buy your electricity without a sermon?

    A Hydrogen splitter would remove the profit. -IMO

    ( A spin on the Bill Gates 640k theme)

    30KVA is all anyone needs

    PS: I will never pay a CO2 tax, that’s a straight up NWO agenda.

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    karen from illinois said on 2/18/2009 @ 3:59pm PT: [Permalink]

    when mattoon won the future gen project the bush doe decided not to fund it..i felt bad for the peops of mattoon because they had spent like a quarter million bucks on lobbying/researching then when they beat out tx for the plant..the idea was killed

    that being said,i still think working to make coal clean power plants is a good idea,it couldnt happen everywhr because if i understand this correctly, u need a large,water tight cave to pump the emissions into…now the questions i would have r…what happens to the life cycles in those caves? can we make sure it affects only the cave thats used…because yes if it can spread then its a disaster waiting to happen

    as far as the sludge disaster goes,if i am remembering and understanding things correctly,that sludge pond was part of a public utility,whoever was in charge of maiteniance deserves criminal neglect charges

    so of course we have to maintain safe sludge ponds and recycle that sludge when ever possible

    sadly no matter what we do with china/india building a coal plant a week we probably cant stop global warming…that doesnt mean i think we can give up trying,i think it is our moral responsibility to try

    drum roll plssssssssssssssssssssss

    my house has cut our electric usage in half since last yr at same time

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    Lottakatz said on 2/18/2009 @ 5:36pm PT: [Permalink]

    That was an excellent show. Your voices worked beautifully together and the off-the-cuff humor was very nice. One of the problems with many of the on-line ‘radio’ type commentators I’ve heard (even the ones I listen to reoccurring) is that the voice is grating and/or there is no humorous touch except for very heavy handed (and hard on the ears) sarcasm. Your audio was very easy on the ears. Desi has a great voice.

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