"Power Grid Increasingly Vulnerable To Severe Weather, Report Says"
"Americans can expect more major power outages because of severe weather driven by climate change, a federal report says."
Source: LA Times, 08/13/2013
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"North Dakota Oil Boom Seen Adding Costs for Rail Safety"
"Crude oil shipped by railroad from North Dakota is drawing fresh scrutiny from regulators concerned that the cargo is adding environmental and safety hazards, something that analysts say could raise costs."
Source: Bloomberg, 08/13/2013
"Interpol Targets Criminals Who Subvert Carbon Markets"
"LYON, France -- Securities fraud, insider trading, embezzlement, money laundering and cybercrime – the intangible nature of the global carbon trading markets puts them at risk for exploitation by criminal networks, according to a new law enforcement guide produced by Interpol."
Source: ENS, 08/13/2013
"Wood Storks Are Again Calling the South Carolina Coast Home"
"No more than 15 years ago, it would have made a bird watcher's week to see the seldom-seen wood stork. Today, a daily siting is not unusual."
Source: Island Packet, 08/13/2013
"Britain's PM Backs Fracking for Shale Gas"
"Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has given his unequivocal backing to the divisive 'fracking' process used to extract shale gas from rocks, risking angering his party's supporters from more rural areas."
Source: Reuters, 08/13/2013
"Cutting Soot And Methane May Not Give Hoped-for Climate Help"
"A U.S.-led drive to reduce soot and other heat-trapping air pollutants worldwide is less promising than hoped as a new front in the fight against climate change, according to a study published on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 08/13/2013
Mexican President Proposes Opening Energy Sector to Foreign Investment
"MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico on Monday, pushing one of the most sweeping economic overhauls here in the past two decades, proposed opening his country’s historically closed energy industry to foreign investment."
Source: NY Times, 08/13/2013
Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Protest Camp: Documents
TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security keep close eye on activists, FOIA documents reveal."
Source: Earth Island Journal, 08/12/2013
"Lobstermen Keeping Eyes on Spread of Shell Disease"
"PORTLAND, Maine -- A shell disease that has plagued the southern New England lobster industry for years by making lobsters unsightly and in some cases unmarketable appears to be creeping northward to the lobster-rich grounds off the coast of Maine."
Source: AP, 08/12/2013
"'Fox Penning': Hunting Tradition Or Blood Sport?"
"On John Bassler's 143-acre Piney Run Foxhound Training Preserve in Milford, Va., a densely wooded property lined with electrified fences to keep about 30 wild foxes inside contained, the chase is recreation, he said, part of a Virginia tradition commonly known as 'fox penning.'"
Source: Wash Post, 08/12/2013
