"WASHINGTON -- Last year, the U.S. wind energy industry chalked up a record number of projects and generating capacity under construction. By year end, private corporations invested billions of dollars, and new records for generation were set in many locations, according to the U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report Year Ending 2013, released Thursday by the American Wind Energy Association, AWEA."
"The United States needs to enact a major climate change law, such as a tax on carbon pollution, by the end of this decade to stave off the most catastrophic impacts of global warming, according to the authors of a report released this week by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
"WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's first-ever limits on air toxics, including emissions of mercury, arsenic and acid gases, preserving a far-reaching rule the White House had touted as central to President Barack Obama's environmental agenda."
"U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the United States' 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory."
"Jodi Ross, town manager in Westford, Mass., did not expect she would be threatened with arrest after she and her fire chief went onto the railroad tracks to find out why a train carrying liquid petroleum gas derailed on a bridge in February. But as they reached the accident site northwest of Boston, a manager for Pan Am Railways called the police, claiming she was trespassing on rail property. The cars were eventually put back on the tracks safely, but the incident underlined a reality for local officials dealing with railroads."
Environmental journalism was well recognized by this year's Pulitzer Prizes. SEJ members Dan Fagin (pictured) and David Philipps won the Prize in the General Nonfiction (book) and National Reporting categories, respectively.
"Columbia University is seeking federal money to test a majority of Kennebec County’s 17,000 wells."
"Despite widespread concern about the potential effects of toxic metals in the soil of Coconut Grove’s parks, only a few people have apparently undergone testing for contamination."
"Some materials that would be stored in a proposed underground nuclear waste facility less than a mile from Lake Huron are hundreds of times more radioactive than was told to Canadian government officials considering the site."
"When a helicopter flies over Cedar Valley, residents tend to assume it’s searching for illegal pot operations in the nearby forest. That’s what Curry County neighbors John Burns and Kathyrn Rickard thought when they heard the blades whirring over their rural homes. They didn’t think the helicopter flying overhead would be raining toxic chemicals upon their homes, their farms and their bodies."
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[2] http://ens-newswire.com/2014/04/14/momentum-builds-to-restore-wind-energy-tax-credit/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/political-rifts-slow-us-effort-climate-laws
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/15/us/politics/political-rifts-slow-us-effort-on-climate-laws.html?hpw&rref=politics&_r=0
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/appeals-court-upholds-epa-limits-air-toxicity
[6] http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/04/15/224559/appeals-court-upholds-epa-limits.html?sp=/99/200/260/
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-fall-10-percent-2005-epa
[8] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/71441
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/despite-rise-spills-hazardous-cargo-rides-rails-secret
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[11] https://www.sej.org/congrats-sej-members-dan-fagin-and-david-philipps-and-all-2014-pulitzer-prize-winners
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[16] https://www.sej.org/headlines/planned-nuclear-waste-facility-raises-fears-great-lakes
[17] http://www.freep.com/article/20140413/NEWS06/304130074/great-lakes-nuclear-waste
[18] https://www.sej.org/headlines/chemical-trespass-poison-above-falls-rural-oregon
[19] http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20140410/lead-story/chemical-trespass
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