Environment

In my city, the furor over a tires-to-energy plant is growing. Do you know where most of our electricity comes from? According to the U.S. Department of Energy, in 2006, nearly half (49%) of the country’s 4.1 trillion kilowatt hours of electricity used coal as its source of electricity. Here’s a breakdown of the methods…

In my town, a tires-to-energy plant has been proposed, and it’s having trouble with the zoning laws. Apparently, the plant’s smoke stacks would be too high for the zoning regulations. If I lived downwind from the plant, I’d rather see the tall smoke stacks and know that the emissions would have less of an impact…

Today, I did some holiday shopping at Target on Peach Street, which during the holidays, is referred to as “Peach Jam.” It had just started snowing when I got to the store and only got worse while I shopped. After I cleaned off my car, I weighed taking the Peach Street route home or taking…