I blogged previously about a court case in 2009 involving Santa Clara County in California that was decided in favour of free and open access to county GIS data under California’s Public Records Acts (PRA). […]
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has announced that the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have been successfully brought to cold shutdown. The timetable for decommissioning the reactors will take place over 40 years […]
According to Reuters Japan may announce that the nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are in a cold shutdown, about 9 months after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami resulted in the mandatory evacuation […]
The Texas Water Development Board publishes a State Water Plan for the state every five years and has just approved the 2012 plan. The state population, which is now 25 million, is projected to […]
According to an article in Nature, international and national labs use massive amounts of power, 3 terawatt hours (TWh) per year in Europe and 4 TWh/yr in the United States, about the same as a […]
I’ve blogged before about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that comes into effect today. A recent article provides historical background to the MATS standards, which it points out have been […]
Aging infrastructure and outdated sewer systems have brought about the chronic discharge of raw sewage into U.S. surface waters. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated in August 2004 that the volume of combined sewer overflows […]
David Anderson, the Minister of the Environment in the Chretien government, was responsible for Canada’s signing the Kyoto protocol in 1998. Peter Kent, Minister of the Environment in the Harper government, has announced Canada’s withdrawal. […]