GM to open Michigan battery pack plant
Today, General Motors will take a significant step in furthering the country’s EV industry. It will start operations at the nation’s first battery pack plant run by a U.S. automaker. The plant in Brownstown Township, MI will assemble the battery packs for the Chevy Volt.
GM chose January 7 to open up shop because it’s exactly three years from the initial announcement of the Volt. Energy
Whale Wars fiasco: High seas collision grounds sea shepherd
The extreme environmentalists fighting whaling, the Sea Shepherd Society, have received incredible sympathy with the broadcast of Whale Wars, and now they’re riding in a new boat, the Bob Barker (apparently he wasn’t just interested in spaying and neutering pets), according to the Associated Press.
That’s because their old boat, which looks like something Batman would drive, collided — or was rammed deliberately — by a Japanese
10 shocking facts about our world
When you write about money and the environment for a living, you’re constantly bombarded by related facts, figures, and other interesting stuff.
It seems like a day doesn’t pass without someone emailing me a press release about how much CO2 is released via cow flatulence every year, or how much money you could save by heating your home with cow chips. Come to think of it,
