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"Robert Bullard: The Father of Environmental Justice" [1]

"As a sociologist in the 1970s, Robert Bullard made a dismaying discovery: Houston landfills and incinerators were far more likely to be located in communities of color than in white neighborhoods, even though blacks made up just one-fourth of the city’s population. That realization launched a lifetime of environmental justice work, including leadership in convening the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit and framing the landmark 17 Principles of Environmental Justice in 1991, bringing environmental justice to the fore at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, and catalyzing creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Justice."

Source: Ensia [2], 06/16/2014

"A Dilemma With Aging Coal Plants: Retire Them Or Restore Them?" [3]

"When the coal-fired power plant at the Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah started up, Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for his fourth term as president. The top music hits were sung by Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey and Dinah Shore. D-Day was still a couple of months away."

Source: Wash Post [4], 06/16/2014

"Abandoned Oil Wells Spouting Significant Levels of Methane: Study" [5]

"A Princeton University study has found that leaks from abandoned oil and gas wellbores pose not only a risk to groundwater, but represent a growing threat to the climate."

Source: The Tyee [6], 06/16/2014

"If Keystone Gets Nixed, Canadian Pipeline Operators Have a Plan B" [7]

"It might be that the U.S. environmentalists’ long campaign against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is about to backfire. Canadian pipeline operators are poised to implement an all-Canadian Plan B network of pipelines in place of the ill-fated Keystone XL that was to run the length of the U.S. heartland to the Texas Gulf Coast."

Source: Toronto Star [8], 06/16/2014

"Iowa High Court Reinstates Major Pollution Lawsuit" [9]

"IOWA CITY, Iowa — In a major environmental case, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday that residents can bring a nuisance lawsuit against a Muscatine manufacturer accused of routinely blanketing their properties with soot and chemicals."

Source: AP [10], 06/16/2014

"John Kasich's Democratic Challenger Makes Energy Rollbacks A Big Deal" [11]

"Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) on Friday signed into law a contentious bill the legislature passed last month rolling back state renewable energy standards."

Source: Huffington Post [12], 06/16/2014

"At Commencement, Obama Mocks Lawmakers Who Deny Climate Change" [13]

"ANAHEIM, Calif. — President Obama, appearing emboldened after his recent move to cut carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, on Saturday ridiculed members of Congress who deny climate change or plead scientific ignorance as an alibi for avoiding an uncomfortable truth."

Source: NY Times [14], 06/16/2014

"Musk Opens Tesla Technology to the World" [15]

"PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken down the patents posted at the California headquarters of his luxury electric car company. Instead the innovative CEO wants to allow other electric vehicle manufacturers to use his technology to advance sustainable mobility worldwide."

Source: ENS [16], 06/16/2014

"Anger Rises as India Swelters Under Record Heatwave" [17]

"Swathes of north India are sweltering under the longest heatwave on record, triggering widespread breakdowns in the supply of electricity and increasingly angry protests over the government's failure to provide people with basic services."

Source: Reuters [18], 06/16/2014

As Obama Visits Indian Reservation, Past U.S. Betrayals Loom [19]

"CANNON BALL, N.D. — This isolated town nestled in the undulating prairie of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation is so small, its only formal sign is a boulder spray-painted with 'C. Ball.' But Friday afternoon, it briefly became the center of the American political world when President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited."

Source: Wash Post [20], 06/16/2014

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