Fox Climate Coverage Irony Alert! Photo: Wikimedia Commons The Fox News memo on how to "report" on global warming (i.e., suggest the science behind it is fatally flawed) got a lot of attention on Wednesday.
Not that anyone was particularly surprised—you can turn on Fox most days and see that policy in action. But while management at Fox is still banking on sowing doubt about climate change, the big-wigs at parent company News Corp. aren't. Earlier this year I reported at length about News Corp.'s effort to go carbon neutral. The # climatehawks Daily. The # climatezombies Daily. EPA Says Toxic Chemical Releases Decreased in 2009. WASHINGTON, D.C. – The EPA found that toxic chemicals released into the environment fell by 12 percent in 2009 over the previous year's data.
The annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) shows that toxic chemical disposals and releases into the air, land and water came in at 3.37 billion pounds in 2009. TRI was recently recognized by the Aspen Institute as one of the 10 major ways that EPA has strengthened America. “The Toxics Release Inventory is an important way to inform American communities about their local environmental conditions. An Amazing, Though Clearly Little-Known, Scientific Fact: We Get More Snow Storms in Warm Years.
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