"U.S. scientists announced on Wednesday an important milestone in the costly, decades-old quest to develop fusion energy, which, if harnessed successfully, promises a nearly inexhaustible energy source for future generations."
"HOUSTON — T. Boone Pickens has personified the nation’s oil industry for more than a generation. So when he made an offhand comment at a conference here a few weeks ago expressing reservations about lifting the nation’s ban on exports of crude oil, he startled some of his old allies in the business."
"We often talk about climate change as a matter of science. But the biggest questions are really about money. How much would it cost to fix the problem — and what price will we pay if we don't?"
"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency denied a request from Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to reimburse costs associated with responding to the chemical leak that continues to affect central West Virginia."
"The major winter storm that has left hundreds of thousands in the southern USA without power is blazing a trail up the East Coast."
"Keeping track of the billions of dollars to be spent on natural resources restoration projects in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states in the aftermath of the BP oil spill was the top issue raised during an impromptu roundtable of environmental leaders in New Orleans this week."
"WASHINGTON -- Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer proposed emergency drought legislation Tuesday ahead of President Obama's planned visit to Fresno, as Democrats scrambled to counter GOP charges that trying to save rivers and fish during California's historic drought is destroying the nation's chief source of fruits and vegetables."
"TOKYO — Several industrialized countries have turned their backs on nuclear power as a result of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, including one that has already begun permanently shutting functioning plants. That country is not Japan."
"WASHINGTON, DC, February 11, 2014 (ENS) – The leaders of France and the United States today agreed to expand their work to curb climate change in advance of the United Nations climate summit next year in Paris, where the world is expected to forge a global climate agreement to take effect in 2020."
"The White House announced a new ban on sales of elephant ivory within the United States on Tuesday, part of a plan aimed at cracking down on trafficking of wildlife that is threatening some species, including the African elephant, with extinction."
Links
[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-scientists-achieve-turning-point-fusion-energy-quest
[2] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/71055
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/conflict-oil-industry-awash-crude
[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/13/business/energy-environment/an-oil-industry-awash-in-crude-argues-over-exporting.html?ref=energy-environment
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/economist-says-best-climate-fix-tough-sell-worth-it
[6] http://www.npr.org/2014/02/11/271537401/economist-says-best-climate-fix-a-tough-sell-but-worth-it
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/fema-wont-reimburse-spill-costs
[8] http://www.charlestondailymail.com/News/statenews/201402120023
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/furious-winter-storm-paralyzes-south-east
[10] http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/02/13/winter-storm-hits-south-moves-north/5446019/
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nola-readers-urge-tracking-spending-bp-spill-money-gulf-restoration
[12] http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/02/tracking_spending_of_bp_spill.html
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/sens-feinstein-boxer-propose-emergency-drought-legislation
[14] http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Sens-Feinstein-Boxer-propose-emergency-drought-5225957.php
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/nuclear-issue-limbo-indecision-grips-japan
[16] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/world/asia/nuclear-issue-in-limbo-as-indecision-grips-japan.html?_r=0
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/obama-hollande-cooperate-2015-global-climate-change-pact
[18] http://ens-newswire.com/2014/02/11/obama-hollande-cooperate-on-2015-global-climate-change-pact/
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/new-us-ban-ivory-sales-aimed-saving-more-elephants
[20] http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/71039
[21] https://www.sej.org/search_results
[22] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3582
[23] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3579
[24] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3580
[25] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3581
[26] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3584
[27] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3585
[28] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3586
[29] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=3587
[30] https://www.sej.org/search_results?page=5105