Sage Grouse: "Bye-Bye, Birdie" [1]
"Before lawmakers could agree to a $1.1 trillion, last-minute deal to avoid shutting down the U.S. government, they first had to deal with a couple of birds."
Source: Politico [2], 12/12/2014
"Before lawmakers could agree to a $1.1 trillion, last-minute deal to avoid shutting down the U.S. government, they first had to deal with a couple of birds."
"The American benchmark price for crude oil broke the symbolically important $60 a barrel mark on Thursday for the first time in over five years, underscoring a remarkable drop of over 40 percent since early June."
"Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week."
Pope Francis told the Lima climate conference that they had a "serious ethical and moral responsibility" to the poor and future generations.
"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea [Dec. 11] for all nations to work for an ambitious U.N. deal next year to fight climate change, saying time was running out to reverse a course 'leading to tragedy'."
"LIMA, Peru -- A funny thing happened on the way to a 2015 climate deal: The wall dividing developed and developing countries crumbled."
"A coalition of environmental groups reminded President Obama Monday that they want him to set set strong standard for coal ash storage."
"A coalition of 47 environmental organizations called on U.S. senators Monday to remove public lands riders from a defense bill, criticizing what they described as a 'kitchen-sink' approach to conservation."
"North Dakota regulators on Tuesday ordered producers pumping oil from the Bakken shale field to begin removing flammable natural gas liquids from their product before shipment in an effort to prevent deadly explosions involving trains."
"A new peer-reviewed analysis of sources of leaks in natural gas drilling and well operations strongly bolsters growing calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to settle on regulations cutting wasteful, harmful emissions of methane from both new and existing oil and natural gas wells."
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[2] http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/sage-grouse-spending-bill-endangered-species-protection-113483.html
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/oil-breaks-60-threshold-first-time-5-years
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/business/oil-breaks-60-threshold-for-first-time-in-5-years-.html?ref=energy-environment
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/protecting-mangroves-can-lower-disaster-risks-offer-cash-experts
[6] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/72604
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pope-climate-change-serious-ethical-and-moral-responsibility
[8] http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2014/12/11/pope_climate_change_an_ethical_and_moral_responsibility/1114382
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/kerry-tells-all-nations-work-climate-avoid-%E2%80%98tragedy%E2%80%99
[10] http://sustainability.thomsonreuters.com/2014/12/11/kerry-tells-nations-work-climate-avoid-tragedy/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/led-us-china-diplomats-teeter-edge-new-climate-regime
[12] http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060010277
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greens-ask-obama-go-big-coal-ash
[14] http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/226312-greens-ask-obama-to-go-big-on-coal-ash
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/groups-want-public-lands-bills-pulled-defense-act
[16] http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2014/12/08/groups-want-public-lands-bills-pulled-defense-act/20120251/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/n-dakota-regulators-tell-producers-filter-crude-flammable-liquids
[18] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/business/energy-environment/north-dakota-regulators-tell-producers-to-filter-crude-oil-of-flammable-liquids.html?ref=energy-environment&_r=0
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-studies-specify-methane-leaks-bolster-calls-strong-epa-rules
[20] http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/new-studies-close-in-on-methane-leaks-and-bolster-calls-for-strong-e-p-a-rules/?ref=energy-environment
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