A Supreme Court argument today on the Bush administration’s refusal to regulate the carbon dioxide in automobile emissions offered three intertwined plot lines to the audience that had come to watch the court’s first encounter with the issue of global climate change.
On one level, the argument was about the meaning of the Clean Air Act, which the Environmental Protection Agency maintains does not treat carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases as air pollutants and thus does not give the agency the authority to regulate them.
According to a new study published online November 27, 2006 in The Anatomical Record, the official journal of the American Association of Anatomists, whales share brain cells with humans. The research suggests that “certain cetaceans and hominids may have evolved side by side.”
Canada’s biggest Internet service providers have agreed to block hundreds of offending websites in an effort to get rid of child pornography. Telecom companies such as Bell Canada, Rogers, Shaw, SaskTel, Telus, Videotron and MTS Allstream are partnering with Cybertip.ca to launch “Project Cleanfeed Canada” that will block between 500 and 800 offending websites. Cybertip.ca, a national child sexual exploitation hotline, will provide the names of sites to be blocked. The hotline relies mostly on tips from the public.