(The information below is from a DNREC announcement except as noted:)
Tomorrow Wednesday May 26, 2010 will be a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for the State of Delaware.
Archive for May, 2010
Bad air in Delaware on Wed and Thursday.
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Memorial service for Don Crossan May 21, 2010
Thursday, May 20th, 2010“A memorial service for longtime University of Delaware professor and administrator Donald F. Crossan will be held from 2-4 p.m., Friday, May 21, in Clayton Hall on the University’s Laird campus.”
Alert 683: Public hearing on new sewer plant May 19, 2010
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
DNREC evaluation of a proposed sewer plant ignores impacts of the additional development it will allow
Yet DNREC Secy. O’Mara concludes the project is clean because it will reduce septic tank pollution
"In effect, the DNREC seems to be cheerleading for this project rather than evaluating it carefully."84% of the capacity is to support new development–8400 new connections
Public Hearing May 19th on proposed Tidewater Utilities project
Will the Markell administration enforce the Delaware Coastal Zone Act?
Alert 682: A decision time for recycling in Delaware
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010Latest Delaware “recycling” bill, SB 234, still not good enough, but can be fixed
Please ask Governor Markell and Representatives not to pass SB 234 until it is fixed
Delaware’s container deposit program (”bottle bill”) should be fixed not killed
Please ask Governor Markell and Representatives not to pass SB 234 until it is fixed
Delaware’s container deposit program (”bottle bill”) should be fixed not killed
Action: Please contact Governor Markell and–if you live in Delaware–your state Representative
Cape Wind [offshore] Power Purchase Agreement comes in at 20.7 cents/kWh
Monday, May 10th, 2010[This is around double the only other US offshore PPA I know of--for the "Bluewater" project off Delaware. Rhode Island regulators rejected another PPA at 24.4.
http://www.renewablesbiz.com/article/10/05/cape-wind-has-its-ppa
http://www.renewablesbiz.com/article/10/05/national-grid-and-cape-wind-sign-power-purchase-contract
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Mother’s Day Manifesto: 2010
Sunday, May 9th, 2010Technorati Tags: Mother’s Day
Sunday 09 May 2010
by: Eileen Fleming, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
(Photo: cromacom / flickr)
The genesis of Mother’s Day in the USA began when Anna Jarvis, an Appalachian homemaker, organized a day to raise awareness of poor health conditions in her community.