Green Lighting Perspective Going Restaurant Dining

So I go to a restaurant and needed the number. So as I wrote in Mother Earth News, my new favorite website for looking up phone numbers is the Yellow Pages. Just sign up on the Yellow Pages through Facebook or Twitter and get numbers for FREE!! It’s true and they want you to opt out of getting the books as they are working with the EPA to be a leader in this effort to reduce paper consumption. Back to the story. I went to my IPhone and found my restaurant site for Yama Sushi, (a restaurant near me but I put the link in there). We get there and it’s crowded. So my wife calls out friends and we go to another restaurant called Oriental Diner. I mean there was 9 of us so we had to find the best place.

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Diesel Drinking Water

In 2011, the natural gas industry was caught red-handed, secretly pumping over 32 million gallons of diesel fuel and diesel fuel by-products into the ground — and threatening our drinking water.1 This is after the industry denied using diesel in their fracking fluids!

In response, EPA has proposed draft regulations for the use of diesel in fracking. However, we need EPA to take it a step further and ban the use of diesel fuel and diesel by-products in fracking fluids. Will you help us get 25,000 letters to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson by May 31st to show widespread support for a ban on diesel?

Send a message today — tell EPA Administrator Jackson to protect our communities by banning diesel fuel and diesel fuel by-products in fracking.

The use of diesel in fracking fluids poses a great threat to our drinking water.2 Containing known carcinogens like benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylenes3, ingesting diesel can damage your central nervous system, liver and kidneys.4

The gas industry sees fracking as a profit bonanza — no matter the cost to our health or our environment. The natural gas industry can’t be trusted, and EPA needs to ban the use of diesel fuel and diesel fuel by-products in fracking.

P.S. Be sure to share this message with your friends and family. The EPA needs to hear from everyone who cares about safe drinking water.

Resources

1.”Waxman, Markey, and DeGette Investigation Finds Continued Use of Diesel in Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids”, Committee on Energy and Commerce, 1/31/2011.
2. “Evaluation of Impacts to Underground Sources of Drinking Water by Hydraulic Fracturing of Coalbed Methane Reservoirs” U.S. EPA, June 2004.
3. “Public Health Statement for Benzene”, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, August 2007.
4. Basic Information about Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylenes in Drinking Water, U.S. EPA website.

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Groups Request Senate Reconsider NDAA Amendments Blocking Military Alternative Energy

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 24, 2012) – The Advanced Biofuels Association, the Algal Biomass Organization, Airlines for America, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Growth Energy, and the Pew Charitable Trusts today expressed disappointment that the Senate Armed Services Committee adopted amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act blocking the Department of Defense’s (DoD) use of domestically produced alternative energy. The groups released this joint statement: “Continued reliance on foreign oil puts U.S. national security at risk. Oil market volatility has already wreaked havoc on military budgets, which came at the cost of new equipment and training for our troops and reduced military readiness. In fiscal years 2011 and 2012, DoD came up $5.6 billion short in its budget for military operations and maintenance because it spent more on fuel than anticipated.

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Does Green Google Exist

Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in investments to develop and deploy clean energy and earning the top spot on Greenpeace’s list of IT giants who are using and advocating for clean energy. In February, Greenpeace ranked Google the best on its “Cool IT Leaderboard, although it only scored 53 out of 100 points on the ranking system, still putting it ahead of Cisco, with 49 points. But it was a reluctant gift from Greenpeace, which has been hounding the IT giant for some time over its long overdue moves to shift to green and to use its influence and outreach to advocate for renewable energy.

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