92 Structures Lost in Boulder, Colo., Wildfire
Thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate as a wildfire near Boulder, Colorado, rages on.
Source: Boulder Daily Camera, 09/08/2010
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Advocacy Groups Like Little in Interior's New Scientific Policy
"The Interior Department released its new scientific integrity policy last week, but scientists and advocacy groups are miffed at what they view as an incomplete and disingenuous set of rules."
Source: Greenwire, 09/08/2010
"Street Cred vs. Green Cred"
An Arizona Republican operative is recruiting drifters, street people, and the homeless to run as Green Party candidates to dilute the Democrat vote. The Green Party is trying to get them removed from the ballot.
Source: Green (NYT), 09/08/2010
"Bedbugs Bad for Business? Depends on the Business"
"Bedbugs used to be solely a residential problem, but they are showing up in commercial settings, and not just in places with beds like hotels, nursing homes and apartment complexes. Increasingly, pest control companies report finding bedbugs in office buildings, movie theaters, clothing stores, food plants, factories and even airplanes. For the affected businesses, the expense can run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. For the companies that deal with the scourge, it is a bonanza, with business doubling and tripling."
Source: NYTimes, 09/08/2010
"Congressman: BP 'Openly Blackmailing the American Government'"
"BP wants the federal government to meet its demand for continued access to oil and gas leases in the United States. If the oil giant can't keep drilling here, its promise to compensate victims of the Deepwater Horizon disaster might go unfulfilled—or so the company claims."
Source: Mother Jones, 09/08/2010
"BP's Missing Research Money"
"In May, the company pledged $500 million for critical oil spill science. Then politics and parochialism got in the way."
Source: OnEarth, 09/08/2010
"Gulf Oil Spill: Oxygen Dropped Near Oil Plumes"
"Oxygen levels fell significantly in deep-sea areas of the Gulf of Mexico contaminated by oil plumes from the BP spill. But although researchers found a 20% decline in dissolved oxygen, the drop was not steep enough to create biological 'dead zones' that some scientists feared might form in the wake of the BP disaster." Those were the findings of a government study.
Source: LA Times, 09/08/2010
"U.N. Report: Iran Stockpiling Nuclear Materials"
"Iran is steadily stockpiling enriched uranium, even in the face of toughened international sanctions, according to a U.N. inspection report that raises new concerns about the ability to monitor parts of the Islamic nation's nuclear program that could be used to make a bomb."
Source: Wash Post, 09/07/2010
"Old or Abandoned Wells Are Key Sources of Water Contamination"
"New oil and gas drilling is probably the most visible activity people associate with threats to groundwater in Texas. But it's not usually the source of known contamination, according to state records. Instead, old or abandoned oil and gas wells, petroleum storage facilities and even existing water wells are most frequently identified as problems."
Source: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 09/07/2010
Louisianans Seek Lessons in Alaska From Exxon Valdez Victims
"He'd just met her, but Evan Beedle wanted Rosina Philippe to know how his life changed after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, how pieces of his identity slipped away, one label at a time. Husband. Father. Fisherman."
Source: Wash Post, 09/07/2010
