TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Take measures to discourage camping at bus stops (Honolulu Star-Bulletin) Oahu's homeless have learned that bus stops are places where they can camp without being forced by police to move on. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Tuesday meeting set to discuss Nature Center rehabilitation (Mohave Valley News) BULLHEAD CITY - Stakeholders in the Colorado River Nature Center will come together in a meeting to be held 2-4 p.m. Tuesday in the Council chamber at City Hall. us.rd.yahoo.com |
FEMA begins shutting down its temporary trailer parks (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) By BECKY BOHRER NEW ORLEANS -- Dozens of Hurricane Katrina victims still living in FEMA trailer parks will have to find new housing by today, as the agency works to shut down the temporary facilities it set up after the 2005 storm. What's new It wasn't clear how many residents remained in the parks slated for closing today, though Ronnie Simpson, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency ... us.rd.yahoo.com |
Home & Garden Calendar Tree Recycling. nytimes.com |
Rethinking Nuclear Fuel Recycling [Scientific American Magazine] Although a dozen years have elapsed since any new nuclear power reactor has come online in the U.S., there are now stirrings of a nuclear renaissance. The incentives are certainly in place: the costs of natural gas and oil have skyrocketed; the public increasingly objects to the greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels; and the federal government has offered up to $8 billion in subsidies and insurance against delays in licensing (with new laws to streamline the process) and $18.5 billion in loan guarantees. What more could the moribund nuclear power industry possibly want?Just one thing: a place to ship its used reactor fuel. Indeed, the lack of a disposal site remains a dark cloud hanging over the entire enterprise. The projected opening of a federal waste storage repository in Yucca Mountain in Nevada (now anticipated for 2017 at the earliest) has already slipped by two decades, and the cooling pools holding spent fuel at the nation’s nuclear power plants are running out of space. [More] rss.sciam.com |