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ALABAMA TYRES
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA’s Alabama has passed a law to try and rid the state of the 15-20 million tyres in its dumps. The Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act will allow the state to collect US$1 (60p) in tax on the sale of replacement tyres, require bonds from tyre haulers and fine illegal dumpers.…
CLIMATE CHANGE REVIEWS
BY PHILIP FINE
THE WORLD’S 20 largest corporations, including Exxon Mobil, BP and Chevron Texaco, have failed to prepare for the economic fall-out of climate change, says Washington DC’s Investor Responsibility Research Center. A study says none of the companies have estimated their potential financial losses from global warming.…
WASTE FUEL
BY PHILIP FINE
A US company is launching the commercial production of turning waste into low-priced usable fuel. Changing World Technologies’ Missouri plant will produce 500 barrels of combustible fuel a day through the grinding, heating and pressuring of waste such as plastic bottles and old computers.…
MANURE FUEL
BY PHILIP FINE
FARM animal waste is being turned into diesel fuel at West Virginia University, USA, using a heat and pressure technique, mimicking natural oil production. The manure is pressure-cooked, causing the water to react with the manure to form petroleum-type products.…
NITROGEN - AIRCRAFT
BY PHILIP FINE
PUMPING nitrogen into aircraft fuel tanks can cut the risk of explosions. A recent Boeing test reduced the amount of oxygen in the plane’s belly to 12 per cent from 21 per cent, significantly cutting the time when tanks are potentially flammable.…
MONTANA MINING
BY PHILIP FINE
PRESSURE is mounting on the USA’s Montana to clean up the effects of its old hillside mines. Lawmakers, county commissioners and environmental engineers from
around the state are pressing local Senator Conrad Burns to ask the US Congress for US$35 million (Pounds 22 million) so Montana and 10 other western states can more
quickly clean up some of their abandoned mines.…
PETA V KFC
BY PHILIP FINE
PEOPLE for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking a California, USA, court to stop KFC from making what the animal rights group claims are false statements about the welfare of its chickens. PETA says KFC’s current welfare practices are legal, but claims the company cannot legally "lie" about conditions.…
MANURE OIL
BY PHILIP FINE
LIVESTOCK and poultry producers could one day turn into oil distribution centres and clean up a nagging problem, thanks to a new process developed by the USA’s West Virginia University. Its researchers have developed a process that turns farm animal manure into diesel fuel, mixing it with water, and heating it, causing an increase in pressure.…
US ORGANIC FEED
BY PHILIP FINE
THE AMERICAN organic meat industry has welcomed a new US Department of Agriculture report that says livestock producers can source ample organic feed at acceptable prices, scotching – it says – claims that insufficient supplies are available to guarantee the integrity of their product.…
COURT TV
BY PHILIP FINE
LEGAL soliloquies, crime-victim hysterics and a defendant’s heavily-applied charms will have to be filmed outside New York courtrooms now that a judge has upheld the constitutionality of a law that bans cameras from the state’s courts. Court TV had launched a suit against the State of New York, one of nine states that bans cameras at trial courts.…