http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040808EA.shtml
Alister Doyle of Reuters reports: "A slowdown of deforestation from the Amazon to the Congo basin could generate billions of dollars every year for developing nations as part of a UN scheme to fight climate change, a study showed on Monday."
Opponents Say California Power Initiative Is Ill-Advised
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040808EB.shtml
Margot Roosevelt of The Los Angeles Times writes: "Should two Arizona billionaires tell California, arguably the nation's greenest state, how to run its electricity business? They're going to try."
Renewable Energy Jobs Soar in Germany
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040808EC.shtml
In RenewableEnergyWorld.com, Jane Burgermeister reports: "Renewable energy jobs in Germany shot up to 249,300 in 2007, almost double the 160,500 green jobs in Germany in 2004."
Big Trucking Deal
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/040808LA.shtml
Writing for In These Times, Kate Sheppard says, "Sandwiched between three freeways and the fourth-largest container port in the country lies the neighborhood of West Oakland, California. Its residents often choke down the exhaust of the 1,500 diesel trucks that pass through the community on the way to and from the Port of Oakland. On any given day, trucks are parked throughout this working-class, African-American neighborhood, sometimes idling for hours as drivers await their next load."
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