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Tomorrow is World Environment Day, which the UN General Assembly established in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm conference on the human environment, the UN's first environmental conference. It aims to increase awareness of the environment and to encourage action.
Rep. Burgess to speak at annual Energy Expo (Denton Record-Chronicle)
U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess is hosting the third annual Energy Expo and Forum at Guyer High School from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday to help people learn new ways to save money on energy bills this summer.
VIEWS ON ENERGY: "McCain's Band-Aids" (The Daily Texan)
In the last month or so, Sen. John McCain and his advisers have shrewdly noted that the soaring cost of oil has become the most visible sign of this country's current economic malaise. His team has been targeting disaffected drivers with everything from a "gas-tax holiday" to a proposed hook up with President Bush to announce plans to reopen America's continental shelf to oil companies.
Chatham (The Cape Cod Chronicle)
Third graders will end their school year with tours of the Cape Cod Canal Visitors Center and a two-hour cruise along the waterway. Army Corp of Engineers park rangers will facilitate hands-on activities for students. Then the students are off to Onset to board the ship for the canal cruise.
You can beat heat, high electric bills (Muskogee Phoenix)
Ken Laubenstein has turned his handyman skills into energy savings at his home east of Muskogee. He insulated his water heaters, makes good use of his attic fan, and a smaller fan he installed exhausts hot air from a west-facing room with tall glass windows.
Bourne Middle School’s Energy Savers honored (The Bourne Courier)
From Sen. Therese Murray Senate President Therese Murray, D-Plymouth, has recognized 10 middle school students from Bourne in the National Energy Education Development Project’s Youth Awards Program. The students, who are members of the Energy Savers Club, were recognized by the President and received two standing ovations from the members of the Massachusetts Senate for their work in ...
ComEd Customers Now Can Enroll in New Energy Efficiency Programs (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ComEd customers now can take advantage of a number of new and enhanced energy efficiency programs that are expected to yield more than $155 million in savings during the programs' lifetime.
Schools pull plug on wasted energy (11 News Houston)
Across the state, public school districts are passing plans to reduce energy consumption. It’s an effort to comply with a state law passed in 2007 to help the state reduce the amount of power placed on the energy grid, especially during peak demand periods.
School honored for green efforts (Pensacola News Journal)
Suter Elementary School fourth-graders win a national award for energy conservation.
Rolling power cuts `very unlikely': commission (Otago Daily Times)
All the major players in the electricity industry, including the Government, are avoiding the phrase "power crisis" to describe the current shortage of water in the country's hydroelectricity storage lakes.
