A.M. Greenlist: Carrotmobs and hydrogen highs

>> High on hydrogen. California's hydrogen highway may be going nowhere fast, but Boeing flew three test flights on a hydrogen fuel cell powered plane. (via grist)

>> Mobbed by green shoppers. Carrotmob, a green consumer activism event, promised to send a big crowd to shop at a convenience store willing to spend the biggest percentage of the resulting retail sales. K&D won by pledging 22 percent; mobbers bought $9,400 worth of stuff.

>> Bagless in Seattle. Use reusable bags, says Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, who wants to put a 20 cent "green fee" on both one-use plastic and paper bags at grocery and drug stores. As part of the deal, the city would give each household a free reusable shopping bag. Stores would get to keep 5 of the 20 cents (small businesses would keep all of the fee), with the rest of the money going to various environmental programs. (via grist)

>> After losing a bunch of sonar-related lawsuits, the Navy released a 1,796-page report on the effects of sonar and training exercises on marine animals. The Navy's still trying to argue that its own standards are adequate in protecting marine animals; environmentalists -- and the courts -- disagree.

>> In order to get environmentalists to drop their opposition to harbor expansion, the Port of L.A. agreed to fork over $12 million for pollution reduction initiatives in Wilmington and San Pedro.

>> Oil company Greka Energy Corp. keeps spilling oil in Santa Barbara -- and cleaned up one polluted site so slowly that the slow-acting EPA actually stepped in to speed things up. Greka's been getting in trouble a lot: "Santa Barbara County authorities have issued stop-work orders at several of Greka's 77 facilities and, during a three-hour hearing in January, grilled company officials about repeated oil spills at its operations."

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