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US Northeast and Global Warming Impact

By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK – New York’s Wall Street, Boston’s historic areas and Atlantic City’s casinos may all suffer frequent devastating flooding by the end of the century unless the world sharply cuts greenhouse emissions, a new report said on Wednesday. “The very character of the Northeast is at stake,” Peter Frumhoff, director of science and policy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said in an interview about the report, called “Confronting Climate Change in the US Northeast.” UCS collaborated with 50 scientists and economists to produce the peer-reviewed report about climate impacts to the Northeast. It found that New York City could be hit once a decade with the type of extreme flooding that now occurs once every century as a result of rising seas and more frequent storms brought about by increased heat-trapping emissions from tailpipes, industry, and forest burning. Boston and Atlantic City could be hit by such floods every two years, said the report, which used projections from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007 assessments. While it’s hard to predict how much death and damage could be caused by the floods, they could carry risks as dangerous as the 1938 Northeast hurricane that […]

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Africa and Green Electricity

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Badger Meter Awarded Contract for City of Chicago

Badger Meter, Inc. (AMEX: BMI) has received a contract to provide its ORION proprietary mobile radio frequency automatic meter reading (AMR) system for 162,000 water meters in the city of Chicago. The three-year contract is valued at approximately $39.8 million. Badger Meter will serve as the prime contractor for the project to retrofit the ORION system on approximately 80,000 existing residential and commercial water meters and install new meters with the ORION system at as many as 82,000 locations where existing meters will be replaced because of the age of the meters. The city water department staff will collect the meter readings via radio frequency by driving down the street in a computer-equipped vehicle. “Chicago is the largest city that has committed to ORION to date, a strong indicator of the acceptance this popular, innovative and award-winning product is receiving in the utility marketplace. The contract builds on the relationship we have had with the Chicago Department of Water Management for many years, and provides the potential for Badger to become involved in the city’s plans to ultimately meter all of its locations,” said Richard A. Meeusen, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Badger Meter. Meeusen said the city […]

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