"This is the consequence of failure at Copenhagen: A marked shift in scientific effort from solving global warming to adapting to its consequences, a hodge-podge of uncoordinated local efforts to trim emissions – none of which deliver the necessary cuts – and an altered climate."
"Next month, a new class of a dozen or more men and women will begin training in Long Island City, N.Y., to become home weatherization technicians. They are early recruits in a small army of workers being deployed in places around the country where there were only skeleton crews before."
"WEST UNION, W.Va. -- A spill upstream of the town of West Union during the summer has revealed a gap in the system for notifying drinking water systems of possible contamination."
"Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York state is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink."
"When you get right down to it, dust is pretty complicated. It also may be affecting your health."
"A climate change deal is needed not just to ward off global warming, but to ensure a shift from increasingly costly fossil fuels that could lead to a doubling of energy bills, the IEA's chief economist said on Tuesday."
"A report shows concentrations of several major pesticides mostly declined or remained the same in the U.S. 'Corn Belt' rivers and streams from 1996 to 2006."
"Greenpeace is demanding that Newsweek disclose how much money it has made selling the oil industry's biggest lobbying group advertising deals that included the ability to co-host energy policy forums and seat the association's president as a panelist beside members of Congress."
"A weakened Tropical Storm Ida drenched the U.S. Gulf Coast and oil installations on Monday, shutting down nearly 30 percent of Gulf energy production."
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has sent its final proposal on whether carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to human health and welfare to the White House for review, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told Reuters on Monday."
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[2] http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2009/11/stakes
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[4] http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/11/09/09climatewire-big-growing-pains-and-potential-for-5b-weathe-6538.html
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[6] http://www.wvnstv.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=69995
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/natural-gas-drilling-produces-radioactive-wastewater
[8] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=marcellus-shale-natural-gas-drilling-radioactive-wastewater
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/the-dirt-dust
[10] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120252957
[11] https://www.sej.org/headlines/climate-deal-to-prevent-doubling-energy-bills
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE5A91LD20091110
[13] https://www.sej.org/headlines/pesticides-down-streams-corn-belt-usgs
[14] http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/11/09/US-Corn-Belt-pesticide-densities-studied/UPI-17051257800810/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/greenpeace-seeks-newsweek-disclosure-api-revenue
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[18] http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091110/wl_nm/us_storm_ida
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/epa-c02-endangerment-finding-to-white-house
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