Maryland to Pass Global Warming Solutions Act

Maryland is hopping on the Green Bandwagon with the Global Warming Solutions Act, which aims to reduce emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. Not a bad benchmark considering that car efficiency peaked in 1987!

Enzymatic CO2 Capture Device, just in case

It seems that fake trees may not be the only way to scrub CO2 out of contaminated air; CO2 Solution, of our neighbor Canada, has designed a smoke stack insert to filter out the air using genetically engineered E. coli bacterium to spew an enzyme that helps convert carbon dioxide into bicarbonate, a solid which can be used for a variety of consumer goods, or simply sequestered under ground.

At the moment only a small prototype exists, but it is working, and talks have begun with power companies to scale up the technology and integrate it into large coal plants. I think this is the first time I've heard of intestinal bacteria being used for a purpose I can smile about.