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Senate Bill Would Double Ethanol Use
Despite oil companies' objections, a Senate committee approved legislation mandating greater use of corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels in gasoline, doubling ethanol production by 2012.
Bush Pushing Hydrogen Fuel As Alternative
President Bush again asked Congress to pass a wide-ranging energy bill. He saw hydrogen as a fuel of the future, though it currently costs twice as much as premium gasoline.
World needs more than sea walls to stop floods
The Netherlands, a low-lying country with considerable experience of holding back the sea, says that higher and stronger dykes won't be enough against the elevated sea levels that global warming is expected to result in. An international conference on flood defenses in the Netherlands was told that dykes would need to be moved further from rivers to give flood water more room and flood plains would need to be lowered, amongst other measures.
Arctic Leaders Appeal Over Global Warming
Indigenous leaders from various parts of the Arctic have traveled to Europe to ask Europe to do more to combat global warming and to help their people. They want a share of the proceeds of oil drilling, protection of their traditional lands, and only sustainable development.
China's Yellow River plagued by pollution
Much of the Yellow River is unsafe for drinking or swimming thanks to pollution, including sewage, industrial waste and fertilizers. Fragmented efforts at cleaning it and other rivers up has not been enough to make the water drinkable in a country where many do not have access to clean water. The use of the river for hydroelectric power is also expanding and there is a plan to send some of its water north.
Small Ky. Town Wants Reservoir Cleaned Up
Residents of Loyall, Kentucky want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clear up a mile-long channel of water that they left, which has become a stagnant breeding ground for mosquitoes, etc.
Radioactive Waste From Ohio Going to Texas
Cold War-era uranium byproduct waste is being trucked from the former Fernald plant just outside Cincinnati, Ohio, to a site near the Texas-New Mexico line.
Little-known fault threatens big LA disaster-study
The Puente Hills fault has resulted in earthquakes of up to 7.5 in the past, and as it runs under Los Angeles and the suburbs a repeat of such a quake would be unusually costly in terms of both lives and property.
EU: Ireland Intercepts U.S. Biotech Corn,
Tainted biotech maize impounded at Irish port
A shipment of animal feed from the United States was stopped when it arrived in Ireland as U.S. officials had tested it and passed on the information that it included genetically modified Bt10 corn.
Ivory Coast's elephants seek peace abroad
Many Ivory Coast elephants have chosen to become refugees from war in neighbouring countries. They had already suffered from ivory poaching, habitat destruction and fragmentation.
Which fuel do you think holds most promise for the future - hydrogen, ethanol, solar, wind, hydroelectric, or another?
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