At least the Chevy Volt drives really well — that’s the best thing I can say about today’s top 5 green links. It’s been a long week — enjoy the weekend!
- Green Tech’s Martin LaMonica test-drives the Chevy Volt — you know, the 230 mpg plug-in electric Chevy Volt — and finds it handles and accelerates really well! (Did you ever think you’d hear that about an electric car?)
- From the One Man’s Opinion Department: Michael Levy of the Council on Foreign Relations writes in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs that the odds December’s international negotiations in Copenhagen will produce a comprehensive treaty are “vanishingly small” — this reported by Grist’s Jonathan Hiskes.
- Meanwhile, developing countries are struggling to maintain a united front against mandatory greenhouse gas emissions targets, reports Red Green and Blue’s Mridul Chadha — with India standing firm while China and Brazil are now showing flexibility.
- What’s the present and future of green apps for your smartphone? Treehugger interviews a green app developer who says Apple is burying iPhone green apps in its iTunes store, but that he has high hopes for Google’s Android platform.
- ExxonMobil has pled guilty to five violations of the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act — after 85 protected birds died while landing in oily open pits at its natural gas facilities in the United States. 60-Second Science says many such waste ponds have appeared in the last decade on public U.S. lands.
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