{"id":7012,"date":"2009-03-24T12:02:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2009-04-25T22:25:15","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T05:25:15","slug":"green-news-report-march-24-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7012","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; March 24, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center; background-color:#f3fdf4; padding:10px 5px 4px 5px; line-height:20px; background-image:url('\/Images\/GradientDarkGreen_headline.jpg'); background-repeat:repeat-y;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/GNR_ExxonValdez_Duck.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin:10px auto;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><i>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;<\/i><\/span><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNewsReport.bsky.social\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Bluesky-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GreenNewsReport\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Twitter-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Facebook-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/journa.host\/@GreenNewsReport\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/Mastodon-icon24.png\" width=\"24px\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman\/id788236916\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Apple Podcasts' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/itunes-listen-on-apple-podcast-logo-png.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/green-news-report-w-brad-friedman-desi-doyen\/PC:1000011151\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Pandora' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-Pandora-badge.png'><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/256-green-news-report-w-brad-f-30973644\/\"><img width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on iHeart' src='https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/Listen-On-IHeartRadio.png'><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Green-News-Report-Friedman-Doyen\/dp\/B08JJRX3TP\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on Amazon Music' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/AmazonMusic-badge_690.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Green-News-Report-p477566\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='Listen on TuneIn' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/ListenOnTuneIn.png\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/GNR\/feed.xml\"><img decoding=\"async\" width='100px' hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt='RSS\/XML Feed' src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/RSS-XML-Feed.png\"><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:12px; display:block; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0;\"><i>(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.)<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>IN TODAY&#8217;S REPORT:<\/strong>  Today we&#8217;re gonna party like it&#8217;s 1989&#8230;in Alaska&#8230;because it&#8217;s the 20th anniversary of the <em>Exxon Valdez<\/em> oil spill disaster in Alaska; <em>and<\/em> the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Alaska&#8217;s Mount Redoubt, now blowing up again (and in <em>Bobby Jindal&#8217;s<\/em>) face; <em>and<\/em> the 20th anniversary of the global agreement to save the ozone layer, thus saving Alaska, and everywhere else in the world&#8230;PLUS: Poo and Pee Power gives &#8220;bio-gas&#8221; a whole new meaning&#8230;All that and more in today&#8217;s Green News Report!<\/p>\n<p>Got comments, tips, love letters? Let&#8217;s hear from ya, Alaska! Drop us a line at <a href=\"mailto:GreenNews@BradBlog.com\">GreenNews@BradBlog.com<\/a> or right here at the comments link below. All GNRs are always archived for disaster exhausted Alaskan&#8217;s listening pleasure at <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">GreenNews.BradBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_032409.mp3\"><i>Download MP3<\/a> (6 mins), or listen online here&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_032409.mp3]<\/div>\n<p><i><b>Info\/links on stuff we talked about on today&#8217;s episode, plus MORE green news, all follows below&#8230;<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2009\/090320\/full\/news.2009.176.html\">Lasting legacy of the Exxon Valdez:  Twenty years on, the iconic oil spill remains an expensive ecological disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/articles\/STICK-YOUR-DAMN-HAND-IN-IT-by-Greg-Palast-090323-231.html\">Stick your damn hand in it:  20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie<\/a>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Indeed, the &#8220;human error&#8221; tale was the hook used by the Bush-stacked Supreme Court to slash the punitive damages awarded against Exxon by 90%, from $5 billion, to half a billion for 30,000 Natives and fishermen. Chief Justice John Roberts erased almost all of the payment due with the la-dee-dah comment, &#8220;What more can a corporation do?&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/23\/opinion\/23mon1.html?hp\">Lessons of the Exxon Valdez<\/a>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Yet the Exxon Valdez still sends a powerful cautionary message: oil development, however necessary, is an inherently risky, dirty business &#8220;\u201d especially so in the forbidding waters of the Arctic.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/25\/washington\/25bar.html\">Exxon Valdez: From One Footnote, a Debate Over the Tangles of Law, Science and Money<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/30\/exxon-mobil-reports-recor_n_162468.html\">Exxon Mobil Reports Record $45.2 Billion Profit For 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/gma\/story?id=1841989\">Exxon Chairman&#8217;s $400 Million Parachute:  Exxon Made Record Profits in 2005<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/topics\/earth\/features\/world_avoided.html\">New Simulation Shows Consequences of a World Without Earth&#8217;s Natural Sunscreen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/03\/jindals_mockery_of_volcano_monitoring_money_only_lo.php?ref=fp2\">Jindal&#8217;s Mockery Of Volcano Monitoring Money Only Looking Dumber After Redoubt Blows<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2009\/03\/alaska_volcano_mount_redoubt_erupts_5_times.php?ref=fp8\">Alaska&#8217;s Mount Redoubt volcano erupts 5 times, sending smoke plumes 50,000 feet high<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news156914737.html\">City buses turn to sewage for &#8216;clean&#8217; fuel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>More green news <em>not<\/em> covered in today&#8217;s episode:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthhour.org\/news\/default:en\/article?id=eh8007717799218311269\">UN Secretary General Urges Citizens To Join WWF&#8217;s Earth Hour<\/a>: <strong>Turn off your lights for one hour in solidarity on Saturday, March 28th, 8:30pm local time all over the world!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-india-car24-2009mar24,0,3689671.story\">India&#8217;s Tata Motors unveils the world&#8217;s cheapest car<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/capitolandcalifornia\/story\/1720686.html\">Governor open to feds raising gas tax for projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/18\/kissing-edisons-light-bulb-goodbye\/\">Europe to Kiss Edison&#8217;s Lightbulb Goodbye<\/a>:  The European Commission formally adopted new regulations on Wednesday that will effectively phase out incandescent light bulbs in Europe by 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/19\/solar-industry-posts-strong-growth-in-2008\/\">Solar Industry Posts Strong Growth in 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/fl20090322x1.html\">Oceans awash in toxic seas of plastic<\/a>:  Go down to the beach today and you&#8217;ll find plenty of garbage among the sand &#8220;\u201d but that&#8217;s nothing compared with the continent-sized whirlpools of lethal waste out there beyond the horizon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow and stream @GreenNewsReport!&#8230;(Or use &#8220;Click here to listen&#8230;&#8221; link below.) 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