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In its efforts to minimize ozone pollution, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) voted to phase out gas furnaces and water heaters. Beginning in 2030, homes will be required to install zero-emissions alternatives, like electric heaters as the sale of fossil-fuelled appliances will be banned. The move is designed to meet EPA regulations limiting emissions in the atmosphere to 70 parts per billion, but much of the Golden State still exceeds that limit. Speaking to NPR about the ban on gas furnaces, CARB Chair Liane Randolph said, "We need to take every action we can to deliver on our commitments...

CHINA WANTS THE URANIUM CAKE By Alan Boyd * The Asia Times Infosearch: José Cadenas Research Dept. La Nueva Cuba September 27, 2005 SYDNEY - Through the darkest days of the Cold War, the world's largest uranium reserves stayed mostly untouched in their underground deposits, in a silent warning of the dangers of nuclear proliferation. But a different kind of fright factor has dredged up a new debate over what to do with thousands of tons of Australian uranium. If the deposits are now opened to all-comers, the biggest slice could go to countries that were on the other side...