Robin Wright - The 45-year-old American actress Robin Wright wowed photographers on the red carpet when she appeared at the premiere of her new movie 'The Conspirator' this week. Wright posed with co-stars Robert Redford and James Mcavoy at The Museum of Modern Art on Monday evening (11th April 2011), reports the UK's Daily Mail.
The mother-of-two stole the show in a fitted white blazer and matching skinny leg trousers. Other celebrities in attendance included Evan Rachel Wood and the Russian model Irina Shayk. Wright finalised her divorce from Sean Penn back in June 2010. The Academy Award winning actor hit the headlines earlier this month after it was reported that he is dating the 26-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson. The couple were first linked together back in January after being spotted on a vacation in Mexico, but the pair's representatives have continuously claimed that the actress is simply interested in Penn's aid efforts in Haiti.
Robin Wright is currently filming the forthcoming sci-fi movie 'The Congress' with Paul Giamatti and Harvey Keitel. Her new movie 'The Conspirator' tells the story of the only female co-conspirator charged in the Abraham Lincoln assassination and the first woman to be hanged by the United States federal government.
California's supreme court refused to consider a lawsuit filed by an influential environmental group seeking to delay construction of a solar plant because it might harm rare plant and animal species.
The state supreme court said it would not review the Sierra Club's complaint against the Calico Solar Project -- one of a string of lawsuits accusing solar power plant projects across the largest U.S. state of harming the environment.
The court offered no explanation. In its complaint, America's oldest environmental organization argued to the courts that the California Energy Commission had approved the Calico project improperly, failing to take into account potential harm to native flora
The ruling 'is a boon for California's economy and could pave the way for hundreds of construction and operator jobs over the next several years,' California Energy Commision chair Robert Weisenmiller said in a statement.
The project was developed by K Road Sun, which bought it from NTR's Tessera Solar. The Sierra Club did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
Conflicts between solar proponents and foes are taking on growing importance as the industry experiences a boom, particularly for California.
Other companies with plants under development that are raising environmental concerns include First Solar Inc and SunPower Corp
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The Sierra Club's lawsuit charged regulators failed to fully mitigate the project's impact on rare plant and animal species, and asked the court to void approval and permits.
It was one of a string of suits targeting planned solar plants, potentially setting back the development of solar energy and derailing state and federal commitments to lessening dependence on fossil fuels.
“The ‘dirty fight’ is all about winning, not healing,” she said. “It’s fueled by people you’re paying. It is the lawyers talking and not you… I told him ‘Let’s get rid of all of these people. I have more confidence in you, and I would hope that deep down you would have more confidence in me, that we can work this out’…
“Of course we’re in therapy. And then I have my own therapist,
Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or cause damage to the natural environment or built environment, into the atmosphere.
The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth's ecosystems.
Indoor air pollution and urban air quality are listed as two of the world's worst pollution problems in the 2008 Blacksmith Institute World's Worst Polluted Places report.
About 4 percent of deaths in the United States can be attributed to air pollution, according to the Environmental Science Engineering Program at the Harvard School of Public Health.[citation needed]
Major primary pollutants produced by human activity include:
* Sulphur oxides (SOx) - especially sulphur dioxide, a chemical compound with the formula SO2. SO2 is produced by volcanoes and in various industrial processes. Since coal and petroleum often contain sulphur compounds, their combustion generates sulfur dioxide. Further oxidation of SO2, usually in the presence of a catalyst such as NO2, forms H2SO4, and thus acid rain.[2] This is one of the causes for concern over the environmental impact of the use of these fuels as power sources.
* Nitrogen oxides (NOx) - especially nitrogen dioxide are emitted from high temperature combustion. Can be seen as the brown haze dome above or plume downwind of cities. Nitrogen dioxide is the chemical compound with the formula NO2. It is one of the several nitrogen oxides. This reddish-brown toxic gas has a characteristic sharp, biting odor. NO2 is one of the most prominent air pollutants.
* Carbon monoxide - is a colourless, odorless, non-irritating but very poisonous gas. It is a product by incomplete combustion of fuel such as natural gas, coal or wood. Vehicular exhaust is a major source of carbon monoxide.
* Carbon dioxide (CO2) - a colourless, odorless, non-toxic greenhouse gas associated with ocean acidification, emitted from sources such as combustion, cement production, and respiration
* Volatile organic compounds - VOCs are an important outdoor air pollutant. In this field they are often divided into the separate categories of methane (CH4) and non-methane (NMVOCs). Methane is an e
