"Beach Bailout: the Jersey Shore’s Inequalities After Sandy (Part One)"
"Many believe the coastal areas hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy should be vacated, saying future flooding is inevitable"
Source: Aljazeera America, 01/01/2015
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"2014 Brought Lasting Action On Climate Change Policy"
"Some of the stories that gripped our attention in 2014 will probably be forgotten in a few years — if not a few weeks. But there's one story that President Obama argues we'll be living with for decades to come."
Source: NPR, 01/01/2015
"Paris 2015 Is Climate’s Burning Deadline"
"PARIS – Agreements on climate change — to paraphrase what the 19th century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about lawmaking — are like sausages."
Source: AFP, 01/01/2015
"The Wreck of the Kulluk"
The expensive and disastrous failure of Shell's effort to begin offshore drilling in Arctic offshore waters of the Beaufort and Chukchi seas offers a tale of what can go wrong in such Arctic drilling.
Source: NY Times, 12/31/2014
"New Rules for Salinas Schools — Reporting Pesticide Use"
"In the pesticide-laden Salinas Valley, the new year brings a new requirement for schools and licensed child care centers."
Source: Salinas Californian, 12/31/2014
TVA Keeps Kentucky Coal Plant After Shutting Down 32 Other Coal Units
"Over the past four years, the Tennessee Valley Authority has decided to shutter more than half of the 59 coal-fired power generators it once operated within its 7-state service territory to cut air pollution and comply with stricter environmental regulations."
Source: Chattanooga Times Free Press, 12/31/2014
"The Politics of Drinking Water"
Clean drinking water is something most U.S. residents take for granted -- until something goes wrong. And when something does go wrong, as it did in Charleston, W.V., this year, there are political consequences.
Source: Atlantic, 12/31/2014
"In Colombia, A Palm Oil Boom With Roots in Conflict"
Industrial-scale palm oil plantations and processing plants in Colombia are at the center of conflict between leftist rebels, government forces, right-wing paramilitary groups and criminal gangs.
Source: Wash Post, 12/31/2014
"Effort To Kill California's Ban on Plastic Grocery Bags Moves Forward"
"An effort to kill California's first-in-the-nation state ban on single-use plastic grocery bags advanced this week after bag makers spent several million dollars on a campaign to gather signatures for a proposed ballot initiative to overturn it."
Source: Reuters, 12/31/2014
"Rare White Rhino Treated for Mystery Illness in California"
"An aging northern white rhinoceros, one of just five left in the world, appeared to be responding to treatment of an unidentified bacterial infection that has veterinarians worried for a subspecies limping toward extinction, a California zoo said on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 12/31/2014
