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Supreme Court rules states can sue EPA over emissions
April 2, 2007. Dowjones, MarketWatch
"The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled 5-4 that several states and environmental groups can sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its refusal to regulate automobile emissions that produce greenhouse gases.
In a second air pollution opinion, the justices ordered a lower court to reconsider a ruling favorable to power plant companies that have upgraded facilities in order to run plants more efficiently and longer but at the same time put more pollution into the atmosphere.
The two opinions, taken together, amount to a rebuke of major energy policies at the EPA under President George W. Bush's administration."
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Mexican poor hit by soaring tortilla prices
Jan. 12, 2007. Times Online. Elsa McLaren
Housewives vented their frustrations and anger at President Felipe Calderon when he appeared in public this week and pleaded him to bring down tortilla prices which have reached 30 pesos ($2.72) a kilogram in Durango state, according to La Jornada newspaper - up 400 per cent from 6 pesos (54 cents) in November. The price hike has become unbearable for many families who have to survive on the country's minimum wage of about $4.50 a day.
"When there isn't enough money to buy meat, you do without," said Bonifacia Ysidro. "Tortillas," she added, "you can't do without."
Mexico imports much of its corn from the United States, where prices have rocketed 80 per cent to their highest levels in a decade last year due to demand for corn-based ethanol fuel. Government officials say, however, that the leap in tortilla prices has as much to do with speculation and hoarding by traders as it does with the high US prices.
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Thirty years of research have produced new technologies
that can help turn abundant energy sources — wind, biomass, solar, even water itself — into alternative fuels. These fuels, Robert B. Semple Jr. writes, can help keep our cars running and our power plants humming, while reducing both our reliance on unstable Middle Eastern oil producers and our contributions to dangerous climate change.
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Brazilian sugar cane ethanol yields nearly eight times as much energy as corn-based options, according to scientific data. Yet 54 cent a gallon duties on the Brazilian product have limited its entry into the United States and Europe. cane
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