Spanish Solar Firm Rioglass build a $50 million U.S. headquarters in Arizona

"Rioglass Solar adds to the significant progress Arizona is making to become a global leader in the renewable energy sector, and creating quality, stable jobs that will help advance and diversify our state's economy," Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer said.

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Pascal Schreier
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Auto Air Pollution Impacts Transportation Planning and Land Use

Florida land use and transportation planning will most likely undergo dramatic changes to in order to comply with national air pollution regulations - particularly the lowering of the acceptable maximum level of ozone.

First EPA revised the acceptable ozone pollutant level from 0.080 parts per billion (ppb) to 0.075 ppb in March 2008. As a result, some Florida metropolitan areas are currently out of compliance with the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) and are referred to as non-attainment areas.

Now EPA has proposed a revision to the rule (40 CFR Parts 50 and 58 in January 2010) to reduce the maximum acceptable ozone level to 0.070 ppb or possibly as low as 0.060 ppb. This regulatory change will require designation of most Florida metropolitan areas as non-attainment areas.
Florida will be required by the Clean Air Act to complete the following: First, we must formally designate the (non-attainment) areas that are out of compliance. Next, we must to revise the State Implementation Plan (SIP) and local Long Range Transportation Plans (LRTP) to indicate what actions are required to reduce ozone levels sufficient to comply with the NAAQS. And finally, we must scientifically demonstrate that the revised SIP (and LRTP) actions are sufficient to bring about compliance.

As many as 30 counties could be designated as nonattainment areas using 2007-2009 air quality data (click to see detailed map). These areas could include: Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, Orlando-Kissimmee-Melbourne, Gainesville-Ocala-Leesburg, Tampa-Sarasota, Fort Myers-Naples, Lakeland-Lake Placid, Jacksonville-St. Augustine, Tallahassee, Panama City, and Mobile-Pensacola.
Florida will take steps to increase the transportation efficiency and reduce the growth rate for vehicle miles traveled. Expect the adoption of California-like emission standards and activities to reduce congestion and delay. Urban sprawl will be further discouraged and high-density transit oriented development will be encouraged.
State, regional, and local transportation plans will be analyzed by computer modeling to demonstrate that plan policies will bring about compliance. The Florida Standard Urban Transportation Model Structure (FSUTMS) is the computer tool used to prepare all Florida transportation plans. FSUTMS is used to forecast transportation network congestion and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Congress restores rural mortgage help

NAR calls passage of HR 4899 a "great victory" for rural homebuyers; it now goes to Pres. Obama for his signature.

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Pascal Schreier
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Ontario faces U.S. challenge in developing Great Lakes wind power

Europeans, short on land and facing a rapidly maturing onshore wind market, got into the offshore game in the early 1990s. Today, more than 830 offshore wind turbines operate in nine European countries, with thousands more being built in the next few years. North America, by comparison, is where Europe was more than 15 years ago. Not a single offshore turbine has been installed off its waters, let alone in the fresh waters of the Great Lakes. Ontario, hungry for jobs and eager to kick-start its struggling manufacturing sector, is in a good position to change that.


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Mercedes-Benz opening 415,000-square-foot facility near Jacksonville airport

New Jersey-based Mercedes-Benz USA is responsible for distribution, marketing and customer service for all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach automobiles in the U.S. It will employ 160 people at the newly constructed Jacksonville facility at 13470 International Parkway, which the company is leasing. Mercedes-Benz will have four business units operating out of the facility when it officially opens in July:

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Pascal Schreier
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Why Is the Gulf Cleanup So Slow?

There are obvious actions to speed things up, but the government oddly resists taking them. As the oil spill continues and the cleanup lags, we must begin to ask difficult and uncomfortable questions. There does not seem to be much that anyone can do to stop the spill except dig a relief well, not due until August. But the cleanup is a different story. The press and Internet are full of straightforward suggestions for easy ways of improving the cleanup, but the federal government is resisting these remedies.
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$130 Trillion

That’s the staggering sum of the true national debt. About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready to tack some zeroes onto it. Taken alone, the amount of debt issued by the federal government — that $14 trillion figure that shows up on the national ledger — is a terrifying, awesome, hellacious number: Fourteen trillion seconds ago, Greenland was covered by lush and verdant forests, and the Neanderthals had not yet been outwitted and driven into extinction by Homo sapiens sapiens, because we did not yet exist. Big number, 14 trillion, and yet it doesn’t even begin to cover the real indebtedness of American governments at the federal, state, and local levels, because governments don’t count up their liabilities the same way businesses do.

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Pascal Schreier
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BP two little letters.

BP, Two little letters, what can they stand for; I asked of the bird who lie dieing on shore?
Bigger Profits he gasped as he crept closer to death, Bigger Profits, that’s all and nothing less!
BP, what does it mean? I asked of the turtle as he washed ashore, Bigger Profits he murmured and nothing more!
That can’t be I exclaimed! it must be something else, like the Blowout Preventer they took off of the shelf.
Your wrong shouted the Gulf Walrus from out of thin air, they have never worked and BP does not care!
No! I cried that can not be true, as the Walrus lie foundering all covered in goo!
Their must be another meaning, just out of reach, I pondered the question as the oil fouled the beach.
I coughed and I gagged as the spill worsened and BP continued spreading its deadly dispersants.
We all use the oil that much I do know, without Bigger Profits the economy would slow.
That can’t be the answer, it sounds much too harsh I thought to myself as the oil killed the marsh!
Without off shore drilling where would we be? But continued drilling will turn brown, our blue sea!
The oil spill is causing hardship and strife! It’s polluting the gulf waters and destroying our way of life!
Can it all be for Profit, is it as simple as that and will the disaster, get swept under the matt?
No! The animals cried you must not forget, keep our memory alive, it’s not over yet!
I shouted BP, what do you stand for? Bigger Profits they clambered, that’s all nothing more?

A sad poem by,
Dennis Bischof

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Pascal Schreier
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Let Them In

Opening America's borders is morally right, economically beneficial--and would even make America safer.

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Pascal Schreier
CEO

BP's Oil Disaster. The Dangers and Difficulties of 'Bottom Kill'

BP has only one arrow left in its quiver, a method known as 'bottom kill.' The idea is for relief wells to stop the gushing oil from below, but the technical challenges are formidable. Past experiences show that the oil may continue flowing into late autumn.
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