Waller Blog | Stimulus Compromise Trims Green Efforts

Big news of the weekend? A coalition of Democrats and some Republican U.S. senators reached a compromise on the stimulus package. Several cuts were made to the $800 billion-plus economic recovery package. One of the cuts was for the federal “green building” program, or a program for energy-efficient federal buildings, which was cut by $2 billion from $7 to $5 billion. An additional cut was made to proposed federal fleet of hybrid vehicles, which was cut from $300 million to $600 million, and to the federal Superfund pollution clean-up program, cut from $200 million to $600 million.

An Englishman's Castle: Thought Crime Daily Update

Meanwhile, in Northern Ireland, politicians and campaigners have demanded that the DUP's Sammy Wilson be sacked after the environment minister blocked a government advertisement campaign on climate change saying the adverts were part of an "insidious propaganda campaign"....

List of natural disasters by death toll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Top 10 deadliest wildfires and bushfires
Death Toll ↓ Event ↓ Location ↓ Date ↓
$1,200–2,500 Peshtigo Fire, Wisconsin United States 1871
$453 Cloquet Fire, Minnesota United States 1918
$418 Hinckley Fire, Minnesota United States 1894
$≥ 250 Thumb Fire, Michigan United States 1881
$200–250 Matheson Fire, Ontario Canada 1916
$240 Sumatra, Kalimantan Indonesia 1997
$230 Landes region France 1949
$213 Greater Hinggan, Heilongjiang China 1987
$181 2009 Victorian bushfires Australia 2009
$160 Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick Canada 1825