Coal Project Hits Snag as a Partner Backs Off - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — The leading American effort to capture carbon dioxide from coal plants has hit a stumbling block that could imperil the project and set back a promising technology for addressing global warming, people involved in the venture said.

...While the other major partners, Babcock & Wilcox and Air Liquide, could seek to buy the plant and convert it without Ameren, time is short. The federal government promised the project $1 billion, or roughly 80 percent of its costs, on the condition that the money be spent by the end of 2015.

For Occupy Wall Street, Health Is a Growing Concern - NYTimes.com

“It should go without saying that lots of people sleeping outside in a park as we head toward winter is not an ideal situation for anyone’s health,” the department said in a statement.       

Dr. Philip M. Tierno Jr., the director of clinical microbiology and immunology at NYU Langone Medical Center, said the conditions could leave park-dwellers susceptible to respiratory viruses; norovirus, the so-called winter vomiting virus, which can lead to vomiting and diarrhea and which could quickly overwhelm the limited bathroom facilities in the area; and tuberculosis, which is more common in indigent populations and can be spread by coughing.

Occupy Wall Street Struck by Gunshots, Viruses, and Suicide -- Daily Intel

Organizers and facilitators originally looked forward to winter, which they hoped would drive out the fair-weather protestors and freeloaders, leaving a serious core of hardcore activists. But even after the riff-raff is frozen out, those left behind will be far from comfortable.

Standing Up For The Environment | Real Science

Suppose you were planning on going to a Keystone oil pipeline protest, but you couldn’t get there because the gas stations had no gas. Then a few days later the grocery store ran out of food because the trucks had no fuel. Then the electricity went out. So you are freezing and starving in the dark.

Then you can feel really good about cutting off the oil supply! While you are at it, you could put a dry cleaning bag over your head and cut off your oxygen supply.