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NASA pushed the Atlantis shuttle launch scheduled for today to Friday, citing problems with fuel gauges on the external fuel tank.
After weeks of outcry over online privacy concerns, Facebook reversed course on its new advertising initiative, which tracked user purchases made on outside sites. (Peter Swire recently covered the importance of “opt-in” privacy controls for consumers.)
“Things are now dramatically and in a telescoped time frame all coming together to address these issues that have been on a 30-year detour,” says Representative Edward Markey in an NYT news analysis of energy and fuel economy legislation nearing completion in Congress this week. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee yesterday approved the Liberman-Warner bill, S.2191, with an 11-8 vote.
A coalition of states is petitioning the EPA to regulate the emissions of commercial airlines. California, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania called for the limits. Airlines contribute 3 percent of total U.S. carbon emissions, but that figure is expected to increase by 60 percent by 2025 (via Grist).
“This is not a stunt.” It’s commercial travel to the moon. Odyssey Moon is the first entrant for the Google Lunar X Prize.
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