Green Highlights

There has been so much good news in the area of green technology and green initiatives that in order to pass on a lot at once, I've combined several articles together in one post. You can read more about each one at your leisure.

The EPA has stopped mountaintop mining permits until water quality impact studies can be conducted. Now there's a concept for you: looking before you leap. Always seemed like a good idea to me, since it's really hard to leap back to where you were before you jumped off that mountaintop, or better yet before you stripped it from beneath your own feet.

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4625


This next link takes an in-depth look at green investments. I have been interested in green investing for years, but this article gives you some good information about which types of green technology are likely to expand. It also points out that these might move slowly at first, so the impatient investor is liable to get bored with green investing until necessity moves us away further from fossil fuels.

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4581

Tied into the idea of green investments is another item that talks about a new kind of green bank. Headquartered in a suburb of Philadelphia, E3bank "will actively encourage its customers to live sustainably by offering preferential rates on green investments."

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/39399

An article posted a couple weeks ago about the EPA establishing rules for monitoring carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Obama's EPA administrator, Lisa Jackson, states that the new reporting requirements "would cover the nation’s 13,000 or so largest fossil fuel-burning facilities that produce some 85 to 90 percent of U.S. global warming pollution."

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4616

China has launched a massive project to improve water quality. This measure is the largest of environmental protection measure then the founding of the People's Republic in 1949. The estimated budget is more than 30 billion Chinese yuan (around 4.4 billion US dollars) to be applied over twelve years.

http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/39464

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