{"id":7287,"date":"2009-07-07T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2009-07-07T16:18:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T23:18:25","slug":"green-news-report-july-7-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7287","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Green News Report&#8217; &#8211; July 7, 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_Sun.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>  Will the climate change in the Senate over climate change legislation?; ExxonMobil pays up &#038; pays out; Universal cell phone charger for the EU, but not for you!&#8230; <em>PLUS:<\/em> Nuclear Power <em>vs.<\/em> Summer&#8230;All that and more in today&#8217;s Green News Report!<\/p>\n<p>Got comments, tips, love letters, hate mail, hot nukular reactors?  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Supporters are targeting a pool of roughly two dozen lawmakers &#8212; including about 15 of Reid&#8217;s Democrats &#8212; who will determine the legislation&#8217;s fate.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/centrists-threaten-agenda-2009-07-06.html\"><strong>Centrists threaten Obama&#8217;s agenda<\/strong><\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/06\/dirty-energy-barbour\/\"><strong>Dirty Energy Lobbyist-Turned-Governor Haley Barbour To Champion &#8216;Do Nothing&#8217; Stance Before Senate<\/strong><\/a> (Think Progress.org)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamattersaction.org\/factcheck\/200907010001\"><strong>The NRCC Ignores The Facts In New Cap-And-Trade Ad<\/strong><\/a> (Media Matters.org)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/07\/03\/media-gops-tv-ad-falsehoods-on-clean-energy-bill\/\"><strong>Media outlet refuses to run GOP&#8217;s TV ad filled with falsehoods on clean energy bill<\/strong><\/a> (ClimateProgress.org) <em>[emphasis added]<\/em>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">For any objective observer, the the ad is <a href=\"http:\/\/\">pulled out of thin air<\/a>. The ads erroneously state that the bill will &#8220;destroy jobs&#8221;\u009d and &#8220;cost middle-class families $1,800 a year.&#8221;\u009d According to a study by the Center for American Progress, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/2009\/06\/clean_energy.html\">clean energy economy legislation will create 1.7 million American jobs<\/a> while simultaneously <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/07\/03\/2009\/06\/26\/house-approves-landmark-bipartisan-clean-energy-and-climate-bill-final-vote-waxman-markey\/\">addressing climate change<\/a> by capping carbon dioxide emissions. <strong>The $1,800 figure used by NRCC is also made of whole cloth.<\/strong> The Congressional Budget Office has scored the bill and found that by 2020, the annual cost would be about <a href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/Press_111\/20090620\/cbowaxmanmarkey.pdf\">$175<\/a> per household &#8220;\u201d about <a href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=1680:cbo-waxman-markey-costs-about-a-postage-stamp-a-day-saves-low-income-families-money&#038;catid=122:media-advisories&#038;Itemid=55\">a postage stamp a day<\/a>. An EPA estimate of the bill found similar results, projecting the cost to be about <a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/07\/03\/2009\/06\/24\/new-epa-analysis-of-waxman-markey-consumer-electric-bills-lower-in-2020-energy-efficiency-coal-plant-retiremen\/\">$80 to $111 per a year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Still refusing to accept reality, the Republican leadership is instructing its members to lie about the clean energy economy bill<\/strong>&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/07\/02\/virginia-station-wont-air_n_225195.html\"><strong>Dems: Virginia Station Won&#8217;t Air GOP Climate Change Ad, Citing Factual Errors<\/strong><\/a> (Huffington Post):<br \/>\n<object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ueGo7HGmFDY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ueGo7HGmFDY&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>FactCheck.org: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wire.factcheck.org\/2009\/07\/02\/whats-in-a-number-2\/\"><strong>What&#8217;s In A Number?<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>FactCheck.org: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/politics\/cap-and-trade_cost_inflation.html\"><strong>Cap-and-Trade Cost Inflation &#8212; Republicans puff up the impact of a cap-and-trade program on the average family&#8217;s energy costs.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/2009\/07\/03\/2009\/06\/26\/2009\/06\/21\/2009\/04\/01\/mit-reilly-energy-prices-tax-global-warming-bill\/\"><strong>MIT Professor tells GOP to stop &#8216;misrepresenting&#8217; his work and inflating the cost to families of cap-and-trade by a factor of 10<\/strong><\/a> (Climate Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/5720655\/ExxonMobil-funds-climate-change-sceptics.html\"><strong>ExxonMobil funds climate-change sceptics<\/strong><\/a> (Telegraph UK)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkroom.thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/02\/exxonmobil-continues-funding-denier\/\"><strong>ExxonMobil Continues Funding Global Warming Denial Groups Despite Repeated Pledges to Stop<\/strong><\/a> (Think Progress)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/royalsociety.org\/document.asp?tip=1&#038;id=5851\"><strong>Royal Society:  Statement on ExxonMobil<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/30\/agreement-on-cell-phone-chargers-in-eu\/#more-14427\"><strong>Agreement on Cellphone Chargers in E.U<\/strong><\/a> (Green Inc.)<\/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> See below!  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news164267918.html\"><strong>Concrete experiment may eliminate storm drains<\/strong>:  <\/a><strong>Shoreview, Minn., is betting on a new &#8220;green&#8221; concrete paving method that lets rainwater pass right through the street surface to prevent damaging runoff <\/strong> (Physorg.com)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/061809G\"><strong>UN Wants to Control the Rush on Agricultural Lands<\/strong><\/a> (Le Monde) <em>[emphasis added]<\/em>:\n<div class=\"mediagreen\">Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur for the right to food, worries about <strong>the rapid expansion of rich government and investment funds&#8217; acquisitions and leasing of agricultural lands in developing countries. <\/strong>This practice of land grabbing accelerated under cover of the 2008 food crisis.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAccording to estimates, some 15 to 20 million hectares &#8211; the equivalent of all France&#8217;s arable land &#8211; mostly in Africa, has been the object of transactions the last three years. China bought 2.8 million hectares in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to develop the world&#8217;s largest palm oil plantation there.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>Experts estimate that from now to 2030, 120 million hectares of supplementary agricultural lands will have to be found to respond to the demand for food products.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalhealthnews.org\/ehs\/news\/roundup-weed-killer-is-toxic-to-human-cells.-study-intensifies-debate-over-inert-ingredients\"><strong>Weed killer kills human cells. 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