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Get the Clean Air Act widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox ! Not seeing a widget? ( More info ) The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has launched a new web gadget that estimates the net health and economic benefits of the Clean Air Act since it became law in 1970. The peer-reviewed EPA report, The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act from 1990-2020 , finds that by reducing the harmful effects of air pollution, the CAA Amendments of 1990 generated environmental and health benefits of about $1.3 trillion (in 2006 dollars) in 2010. The cost of compliance last year was estimated at $53 billion (in 2006 dollars) — yielding a benefit-cost ratio approximately 25 to 1 .
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Clean Air Act delivered $1.3 trillion in health and other benefits in 2010 alone at $53 billion cost – UCS launches the Clean Air Act Benefits Ticker
Tom Young runs down the projects in the pipeline that promise to revolutionise the global energy industry
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Top 10 Clean Energy Mega Projects
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday slammed House GOP bills that would mandate much wider offshore drilling and faster development, alleging they reflect “amnesia” about the catastrophic BP well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that’s a week shy of its one-year anniversary. “When you have gone through a horrific national crisis, which the Deepwater Horizon was, it’s important that you learn the lessons from the Deepwater Horizon, and that we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past, and much of the legislation that I have seen bandied around – especially with the House Republicans – is almost as if the Deepwater Horizon-Macondo well incident never happened,” Salazar told reporters at Interior headquarters. “We can’t afford to take that approach to the future of the nation’s energy security,” Salazar added
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As first anniversary approaches, Ken Salazar says GOP has “amnesia” on BP oil disaster – AP analysis: "Could it happen again?…
By: Maia Hirschbein There are people and families behind every product that we buy. As the local food movement grows in popularity and strength, so has the demand for a way to connect to the people and communities behind products that come from other parts of the world. The Hoop Fund, a crowd-funding platform that
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New Wave of “Consumer Investing” Creates Opportunity for Cambodian Rice Farmers
Editor’s Note: The following is a non-sponsored guest post by Gary Fazzino, Applied Materials. We enjoy periodically bringing corporate voices to the 3p audience and invite your comments and thoughts. California has a long tradition of leading innovation – and the clean energy technology sector is no different. While the clean energy debate in Congress
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