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Daily Archive for June 4th, 2012

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And then they banned the plastic bags. But why? …   (LA) council members stood by the ban, despite being confronted with evidence that bag bans have no discernible effect on the health of the environment and make up less than 1 percent (pdf download) of California's waste stream. "When you're looking at 1 percent, that's a huge difference," says […]

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From a 1998 paper from the American Petroleum Institute: gasoline prices would need to rise from $1.25 per gallon to $4.23 per gallon in order to achieve the goals set by the Kyoto Protocol (a factor of 3.4). Remember that Kyoto asked that we reduce our CO2 emissions by (I think) 6% below 1990 emissions […]

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