Sign up to get Grist by Email. Go here to unsubscribe. A new law requiring manufacturers to recycle used refrigerators, televisions, washing machines, and air conditioners goes into effect next month in Japan.
Most firms appear to be ready to take on some of the additional costs of recycling the appliances.
Contrary A group of Republican moderates stuck with Democratic lawmakers yesterday and submitted bills in the U.S. House and Senate to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, only two days after President Bush broke a campaign promise and said he wouldn't support such legislation. When Bush went back on his promise, he expressed concern that energy costs could skyrocket if power plants were required to drop their CO2 emissions. Environmentalists, needless to say, are alarmed at the president's plans. That's not what national parks and monuments are about. However, four Michigan Democrats in Congress have introduced a bill to ban such drilling.