Is your MP green . . . or in the red?

It’s the latest political bandwagon MPs are jumping on . . . the environment and carbon emissions.

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Officials discuss environmentally friendly ideas. At a recent meeting, City Council President Allen Schulman laid out his vision for the city of Canton: It could become the greenest city in the Rust Belt — and maybe beyond. [News Source]

Gulf stream powerhouse. Turbines twisting in the deep easily could generate a third of Florida's power pollution free. [News Source]

County farmers produce electricity. Somerset County dairy farmers have been producing milk for generations; now they're generating electric, too. [News Source]

E-85 fuel sold in Houston created from byproduct of Miller, other breweries. Could drinking a cold beer be a blow against pollution and terrorism? Maybe so. The fuel sold at Georgia's first public ethanol pump in Perry is created from a byproduct of the Miller Brewing Co. plant in Albany. [News Source]

India’s ongoing incentives to develop alternative fuels. The cultivation of the jatropha plant in the western States of Goa and Maharashtra and dhaincha in the northeastern State of Bihar is increasingly being promoted as promising an alternative to diesel fuel in India. [News Source]

Americans believe global warming is real, want action, but not as a priority. Most Americans believe global warming is real but a moderate and distant risk. [News Source]

Vt. company works to offset emissions. Clients ranging from Ben & Jerry's to the Dave Matthews Band have turned to Native Energy since 2000 to invest in wind farms and cow methane power projects that reduce the burning of fossil fuels blamed for global warming. [News Source]

New air pollution officer named (The Ukiah Daily Journal) The Daily Journal Mendocino County Chief Executive Officer Al Beltrami announced Tuesday that the Board of Supervisors, acting as the directors of the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District, appointed Chistopher Brown as the district's air pollution control officer. The MCAQMD is one of 35 local air districts in California and was created by the legislature in 1971. [News Source]

Shriram EPC forms venture with Belgian group (The Hindu) To be active in wet cooling, air pollution control market [News Source]

Tory MP links action on climate change to suicide (Canada.com) OTTAWA -- Opposition MPs and environmentalists are baffled and outraged by warnings from a Conservatives MP that aggressive action to fight climate change and air pollution could lead to an increase in domestic violence and suicides. [News Source]