IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: A Green Halloween? Get ready for toxic costumes, energy vampires, and scaaarry home energy bills ... PLUS: Who's afraid of climate legislation? (Hint: it's the Republicans) ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!

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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': Ghost of 'Frankenfood' Haunts Europe; Build your own cheap electric car? These guys did; Coal ash poses significant risk: EPA report says; Sharp sets highest solar cell efficiency; YoYo Charger Gives Gadgets Zing With Pull of a String, While Pedal Laptop Charger Idea Has Legs; How California's New Water Laws Inform the Coming National Crisis ... PLUS: Innovative Energy-Generating Pavement Hits the Streets ....

Info/links on those stories and all the ones we talked about on today's episode follow below...

• Make it a 'Green Halloween':
• Toxic Face Paint Makes for Scary Halloween (Environment News Service)
• Green Eyes On: Green Halloween Tips You May Not Have Thought Of (Treehugger)
• Green Halloween: Tips for Parents & Kids (Green Halloween.org)
• Beware of Lead and other Toxins in Face Paints this Halloween (Inhabitots)
• Top Homemade Halloween Costumes for the DIY-Impaired (Planet Green)
• Bringing Creepy Back: How to Build a Haunted Garage with Stuff You Already Own: Use the stuff you already own to set the mood for screams. (Planet Green)
• Universal Cell Phone Charger On the Way --- For Europe:
• UN body approves universal cell phone charger (MSNBC)
• Universal phone charger offers vast opportunities (ZDNet Asia)
• Universal Phone Charger Approved, Could Save 13.6 Million Tons of CO2 (Treehugger)
• Universal phone charger approved: Future handsets will all be able to use the universal charger (BBC)
• Study Shows Hidden Costs of Fossil Fuels: $120 Billion A Year:
• READ THE STUDY: Report Examines Hidden Health and Environmental Costs Of Energy Production and Consumption In U.S. (National Academies of Science)
• NRC: Burning fossil fuels costs the U.S. $120 billion a year — not counting mercury or climate impacts! (Climate Progress)
• Study finds $62 billion a year in 'hidden costs' of coal (West Virginia Gazette)
  
  The report, by the academy's National Research Council,
  focused on premature deaths caused by air pollution from coal-fired power plants. Study authors said the narrow focus clearly underestimated other costs of the nation's continued reliance on coal.
• Study Shows Save Money & Save on Emissions by Saving Energy:
• Simple lifestyle tweaks key in climate change fight (Grist)
• Climate Change Begins at Home: Small Steps to Cut Greenhouse Emissions Can Lead to Big Results: A new study shows how household improvements, such as better insulation, could cut U.S. carbon emissions by more than 7 percent (Scientific American)
• READ THE STUDY: Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. carbon emissions [pdf] (National Academies of Sciences)
• Senate Hearings on the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, a.k.a. the Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill:
• Now Baucus Wants to Mess With the Climate Bill (Mother Jones)
• A senator in a hostile climate (Washington Post)
• Sen. Kerry downplays prospect of floor debate on the climate bill this year; Sen. Alexander is still unaware of staggering cost of nuclear power (Climate Progress)
• Energy Innovation: The Senate Starting Point (The New Republic)
• Boxer releases Chairman’s mark of Senate clean energy bill; EPA releases economic analysis finding cost to U.S. households of under $10 a month, bill consistent with global effort to stabilize at 2°C warming (Climate Progress)
• FACT CHECK.ORG: Cap-and-trade: “Green Jobs” or Job Killer? (FactCheck.org) [emphasis added]:
  
  Kerry smacks down Inhofe’s lies about the cost of climate policy (Grist):

'GREEN NEWS EXTRA': More green news not covered in today's audio report...

• Ghost of 'Frankenfood' Haunts Europe (Greenwire)
• Build your own cheap electric car? These guys did: Starting with junkyard finds and bargain buys, people are converting common cars to state-of-the-art electric vehicles.
• Coal ash poses significant risk: EPA report says (The Tennesseean)
• Sharp sets highest solar cell efficiency (Gizmag)
• YoYo Charger Gives Gadgets Zing With Pull of a String, While Pedal Laptop Charger Idea Has Legs (Treehugger)
• How California's New Water Laws Inform the Coming National Crisis (Popular Mechanics)
• INNOVATION: Pavegen: Energy Generating Pavement Hits the Streets (Inhabitat)

                 

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