"The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries issued a report on Thursday that downgraded demand for its crude for 2015, while also predicting slower oil-production growth in the United States."
"ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Human activity has pushed the planet across four of nine environmental boundaries, sending the world towards a "danger zone", according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Science."
"A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them."
"Most of the toxic chemical waste managed at industrial facilities in 2013 in the US was not released into the environment, according to the EPA’s annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report."
"A federal judge in New Orleans ruled Thursday that 3.19 million barrels of oil were spilled during the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. The ruling means BP now faces up to $13.7 billion in pollution fines for the spill, well below the amount federal prosecutors want the company to pay."
"LOS ANGELES -- Two climbers completed a historic 19-day ascent to the summit of Yosemite National Park's El Capitan in California on Wednesday after scaling the rock formation's 3,000-foot (900-metre) sheer granite face without climbing tools, representatives said."
"Federal agency reports community of slave descendants on nearby island exposed to pollution from site"
"Canada’s Natural Resources Minster Greg Rickford was on Capitol Hill again Tuesday pitching Keystone XL, as Senate supporters of the controversial pipeline tried to round up sufficient votes to override U.S. President Barack Obama’s threatened veto of any Congressional attempt to force approval of the project to ship Alberta oil sands crude to the Texas Gulf coast."
"Correct or not, perceptions of tap water as unsafe lead many poor immigrant families to make expensive and unhealthy choices."
"California farmers must restrict their use of a tear gas-like pesticide applied to strawberries and other crops under new rules designed to protect farmworkers and people who live, work and go to school near agricultural fields."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/opec-report-downgrades-demand-its-oil-prices-fall-again
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/business/opec-report-downgrades-demand-for-oil.html?ref=energy-environment
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/humans-push-planet-beyond-boundaries-towards-danger-zone-study
[4] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-climatechange-science-food-idUSKBN0KO2DS20150115
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/ocean-life-faces-mass-extinction-broad-study-says
[6] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/science/earth/study-raises-alarm-for-health-of-ocean-life.html
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/toxic-waste-managed-increased-2013
[8] http://www.environmentalleader.com/2015/01/15/toxic-waste-managed-increased-in-2013/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/bp-faces-137-billion-fines-2010-gulf-mexico-oil-disaster
[10] http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2015/01/federal_judge_rules_319_millio.html#incart_m-rpt-1
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/yosemite-climbers-reach-top-el-capitan-historic-ascent
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/15/us-usa-california-climbers-idUSKBN0KN23V20150115
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/locals-activists-slam-epa-proposal-clean-georgia-superfund-site
[14] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/1/12/georgia-pollutionlcpsuperfund.html
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-senate-proposal-may-leave-canada-pyrrhic-victory-keystone-xl
[16] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/us-senate-proposal-may-help-canada-win-a-pyrrhic-victory-on-keystone-xl/article22440772/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/californias-poorest-towns-tap-waters-legacy-toxic-latinos
[18] http://www.citylab.com/cityfixer/2015/01/in-californias-poorest-towns-tap-waters-legacy-is-toxic-for-latinos/384482/
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/california-puts-limits-pesticide-used-strawberries-other-crops
[20] http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-pesticide-rules-20150115-story.html
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3217
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3214
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3215
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3216
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3219
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3220
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3221
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3222
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5005