Here are the EHSnews.org headlines of the week:
Environment
- Water Problems Are Solvable
- GoingGreen Top 200 identifies the top emerging companies
- EPA Bans CFC-Based Asthma Inhalers
- H.R. 2250, EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011
- H.R. 2681, Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act of 2011
- Water: The New Oil
- EPA attack bill headed for House floor
- Water and Energy: Texas Drought Reveals the Choke Point
- House to vote on more anti-EPA amendments
- Impact of Gulf Spill’s Underwater Dispersants Is Examined
- Keeping Industrial Plants Cool and Fish Alive
- DuPont Offers Compensation for Dead Trees
Energy
- Plastic from beef waste
- The ‘Best Fuel in the World’?
- Solar Energy . . . From Cucumbers?
- Catalyzing the Clean Economy
- Advanced Hydropower Gets New Funding from DOE and Interior Departments
- China’s New Plan for Solar Power Supremacy
- Solar is the “Fastest Growing Industry in America” and Made Record Cost Reductions in 2010
- U.S. PV Market Poised To Be World’s Biggest
- Costs for Nuclear Energy Skyrocket While Cost of Renewables Plummet
- Never mind Solyndra: The real cost of new U.S. nuclear reactors. Federal loan guarantees for nuclear power are a terrible deal for the U.S. taxpayer.
- Exports May Be a Big Opportunity for U.S. Advanced Battery Manufacturers
- Solar Decathlon: Let The Games Begin
- Self-Powered Microbial Fuel Cells Could Serve Up Unlimited Hydrogen Supply
- The Military’s Airship Renaissance Deflates Over Lack of Access to Helium
- Tough times ahead for renewable energy – Obama unveils $3T deficit reduction plan – House panel to grill Solyndra execs
- Gordon Murray’s EV Is as Light as It Is Sexy
- Solar Installations Rise, but Manufacturing Declines
Health & Safety
- Texas Firm Recalls Ground Beef Due To Possible E. Coli O157:H7 Contamination
- Dynamic Multicrop Model to Characterize Impacts of Pesticides in Food
- Outbreak Deadliest Pandemics in History
- Tracking the Global Food Situation
- Military Struggles to Cut Fire Risks
- Impasse Persists on Drugs in Drinking Water
- How Dead Is Yucca Mountain?
- BP Took Shortcuts Before Oil Disaster, Report Concludes
Green Jobs
