{"id":7037,"date":"2009-04-02T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T19:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2009-04-25T21:37:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T04:37:14","slug":"green-news-report-april-2-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7037","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; April 2, 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_WolfHowl.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 AUDIO REPORT:<\/strong>  Democrats in Congress join the fight for climate legislation; the gray wolf gets de-listed; billions of fish needlessly killed each year by power plants; flame-retardants in your water&#8230; PLUS: the fish you eat are guaranteed to be zit- and depression-free (even if they get sucked into your friendly local power plant)!&#8230; All that and more in today&#8217;s Green News Report!<\/p>\n<p>Got comments, tips, hate mail, love letters, fish with zits? 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 at <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenNews.BradBlog.com\">GreenNews.BradBlog.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_040209.mp3\"><i>Download MP3<\/a> (6 mins), or listen online here&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/greennews\/GNR_040209.mp3]<\/div>\n<p><strong>IN &#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;<\/strong> (<em>links below<\/em>):  There&#8217;s gold in them thar deep sea trenches just <em>sitting<\/em> there <em>asking <\/em>to be mined, but will the U.S. get shut out?; extremely rare dolphins spotted in coastal India; OPEC says don&#8217;t blame <em>oil<\/em> for climate change!; a federal judge halts streamlined &#8220;nationwide permits&#8221; for Mountaintop Removal coal mining while a <em>coal-fired power plant<\/em> in Ohio announces it&#8217;s leaving coal behind for good&#8230;. See below for more!<\/p>\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.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/31\/AR2009033103683.html\">House Climate Bill Aims to Please Environmental and Business Interests<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29992254\/\">Obama climate plan hits Senate speed bump: Cap-and-trade on emissions will have to get 60 or more votes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2009\/03\/30\/30greenwire-senate-committee-markup-begins-but-heavy-lifti-10337.html\">Senate energy policy markup begins, but heavy lifting is weeks away<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/31\/3100-lie\/\">Conservatives Falsely Assert That Green Economy Legislation Would Impose $3,100 Tax On Families<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/04\/mit-scientists-republicans-misusing-my-climate-change-paper.php\">MIT Scientist: Republicans Misusing My Climate Change Paper<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Republicans Lie About Cost of Climate Change Legislation to American Consumers: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tnr.com\/tnr\/blogs\/environmentandenergy\/default.aspx\">Light-Switch Fever!<\/a>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">John Boehner and other House Republicans have been going around saying that Obama&#8217;s cap-and-trade proposal to reduce carbon emissions will cost each U.S. household $3,128 per year. Where&#8217;d they get that figure from? Apparently from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/globalchange\/www\/MITJPSPGC_Rpt146.pdf\">this MIT analysis<\/a> of a similar plan. Except when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/truth-o-meter\/statements\/2009\/mar\/30\/house-republicans\/GOP-full-of-hot-air-about-Obamas-light-switch-tax\/\">St. Petersburg Times <\/a>called up John Reilly, one of the authors of the report, he said of the GOP number: &#8220;It&#8217;s wrong in so many ways it&#8217;s hard to begin.&#8221; Doh. <\/div>\n<li><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/04\/republicans-stand-by-misreading-of-mit-study.php?ref=fp2\">Republicans: We Stand By Our Distortion of MIT Study<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/01\/april-fool-energy-budget\/\">April Fools Or Groundhog Day? GOP Budget Continues Bush-Cheney Energy Disaster<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30000402\/\">Federal rule &#8216;de-listing&#8217; gray wolves is issued: Activists and state of Wyoming to sue &#8220;\u201d but for different reasons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/01\/12\/ap\/tech\/mainD8MJGE8O0.shtml\">Idaho Governor Calls for Gray Wolf Kill: Idaho governor wants to kill all but 100 gray wolves when animals are stripped of protection<\/a>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">The 100 surviving wolves would be the minimum before the animals could again be considered endangered.  &#8220;I&#8217;m prepared to bid for that first ticket to shoot a wolf myself,&#8221; Otter said earlier Thursday during a rally of about 300 hunters&#8230;.<\/p>\n[A]dvocacy group Defenders of Wildlife in Boise&#8230;said Otter&#8217;s proposal would return wolves to the verge of eradication. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Essentially he has confirmed our worst fears for the state of Idaho: That this would be a political rather than a biological management of the wolf population,&#8221; Stone said. &#8220;There&#8217;s no economic or ecological reason for maintaining such low numbers. It&#8217;s simple persecution.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-flame-retardants1-2009apr01,0,5394842.story\">Concerns raised about coastal levels of flame-retardant chemicals: U.S. study finds widespread, high concentrations near Southern California and Chicago, as well as Alaska<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29877241\/\">Pharmaceuticals found in fish across U.S.: Residue of allergy, cholesterol, other meds were in fish near 5 major cities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/environmentNews\/idUSTRE5304RW20090401\">U.S. court upholds power plant cooling water rule<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29999645\/\">Utilities win Supreme Court battle over fish: All eyes on EPA after justices rule cost-benefit analysis can be used<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27251643\/\">Justices join debate over power plants, fish kills: Fish sucked into cooling systems; fix at one site alone priced at $1.5 billion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>&#8216;GREEN NEWS EXTRA&#8217;: More green news <em>not<\/em> covered in today&#8217;s audio report&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i1tJvkrICxuT7mtgBn4Je60jk7XAD979S03G1\">AP: Technology opens promise, perils of ocean mining<\/a>\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">There&#8217;s gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it&#8217;s a mile or two underwater and encased in massive mineral deposits that layer a dark, mysterious world&#8230;.But new technology and worldwide demand have combined to make mining for these metals economically feasible for the first time.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSL225721020090402\">OPEC says oil not to blame for climate change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29992287\/\">Study finds 6,000 rare dolphins off Bangladesh: Warming, fishing still threats but discovery seen as &#8216;great hope&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=102572761\">New EPA Review Prompts Anxiety Over Mining Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtov9.com\/news\/19067601\/detail.html\">Community Encouraged That Shadyside Power Plant Will Go Green<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/31\/business\/31motors.html\">U.S. Sees a Smaller Future for G.M. 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