Climate Class, pesticides, Planktos, pollutants

brought to you by Sasha Paris  

College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine.  

Human Ecology in Action.

The EPA authorized nighttime spraying of a certain pesticide over the urban San Francisco Bay area, starting this summer, to try preventing establishment of a certain introduced crop-damaging moth. (San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/15/MN99V2PMN.DTL

A bill in the California legislature would require all public-school students there to be taught about climate change. (San Jose Mercury News)
http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_8269190

Beijing tightened emission standards on new cars for certain pollutants (Reuters)
http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/31302

After numerous states, including Maine, sued the EPA for its plan to have a cap-and-trade on mercury emissions from power plants, a federal court voided the plan. (Bangor News)
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=159956&zoneid=500

New York Times
A company trying to create [theoretically] CO2-soaking ocean algae blooms for carbon offsets has been set back, partly by opposition from some environmental groups and scientists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/technology/14planktos.html?ref=science

Comments: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/commercial-ocean-fertilization-project-halted/index.html?ref=technology

Report: For the first time, "developing" countries have exceeded industrialized ones in growing genetically-engineered crops.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/14/business/worldbusiness/14biotech.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin