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"Federal Government Still Spending Billions To Subsidize Fossil Fuels" [1]

"Over the past five years, the Obama administration has repeatedly called for cutting fossil fuel subsidies in the form of tax breaks and other incentives. But the amount of money the federal government forfeits through subsidies has increased steadily over that time period, reaching $18.5 billion last year, according to a new report from the environmental group Oil Change International."

Source: Huffington Post [2], 07/11/2014

"In Kentucky's Senate Race, Coal Is Where the Heart Is" [3]

"Coal has assumed out-sized importance in the upcoming election as a devastating sequence of mine shut downs and job losses in eastern Kentucky have put the region up for grabs"

Source: Guardian [4], 07/10/2014

"Research Shows Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Caused Lesions in Fish: Scientists" [5]

"Oil that matches the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been found in the bodies of sickened fish, according to a team of Florida scientists who studied the oil's chemical composition."

Source: Reuters [6], 07/10/2014

"Loggerheads Win New Protection In Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico" [7]

"Across 685 miles of beaches from North Carolina to Mississippi, loggerhead sea turtles now swim in federally protected waters."

Source: McClatchy [8], 07/10/2014

"U.N. Climate Talks More Advanced Second Time Around, Says Former Head" [9]

"U.N. climate negotiations have made greater progress towards agreeing a 2015 deal to bind all nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions than the lead-up to the previous attempt in 2009, former U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer told Reuters."

Source: Reuters [10], 07/10/2014

"With Imported Seafood Flooding US, Are Inspections Enough?" [11]

"Two percent gets inspected at U.S. borders, within a wider regulatory net."

Source: FERN [12], 07/10/2014

"Detroit’s Incinerator Has Folks Calling for Action" [13]

"It didn’t smell when Brittney Willis closed on her Midtown condominium on Halloween of 2011."

Source: Detroit Metro Times [14], 07/10/2014

"Second Silent Spring? Bird Declines Linked to Popular Pesticides" [15]

"Pesticides don't just kill pests. New research out of the Netherlands provides compelling evidence linking a widely used class of insecticides to population declines across 14 species of birds."

Source: National Geographic [16], 07/10/2014

"Even Low Doses of Arsenic Trigger Cancer in Mice, Study Finds" [17]

"A study by the National Institutes of Health found that levels of arsenic similar to what some people consume in water caused cancer in male mice"

Source: , 07/10/2014

"U.S. Lawmakers Threaten To Subpoena EPA Over Power Plant Regs" [18]

"Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday threatened to subpoena the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to obtain documents related to rules on carbon pollution from power plants."

Source: Reuters [19], 07/10/2014

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