"After 12 Years of Research, Hog-Waste Disposal Still Reeks"
"YADKINVILLE -- Google, of all companies, last year got into the business of hog poop."
Source: Raleigh News & Observer, 11/30/2012
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"Water Authority Approves Desalination Contract"
"After more than a decade of deliberations, the San Diego County Water Authority voted Thursday to buy desalinated water from a $984 million project planned in Carlsbad. Officials hailed it as a historic step on the path to water self-sufficiency for the region."
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune, 11/30/2012
"Big Storm Bears Down on Northern California"
"HAPPY CAMP, Calif. -- Weather officials are issuing flood warnings for much of Northern California as the second in a series of wet storms hits the state."
Source: AP, 11/30/2012
Pie Chart: 13,950 Peer-Reviewed Scientific Articles on Earth's Climate
Don't believe everything you read in the news media. A new study of 13,950 peer-reviewed scientific articles published between 1 January 1991 and 9 November 2012 reports that only 24 of them, or 0.17% rejected the idea that human activity was causing global warming. It was self-published by geologist-blogger James Lawrence Powell.
Source: TreeHugger, 11/30/2012
"Frack Secrets by Thousands Keep U.S. Clueless on Wells"
"A subsidiary of Nabors Industries Ltd. pumped a mixture of chemicals identified only as “EXP- F0173-11” into a half-dozen oil wells in rural Karnes County, Texas, in July. Few people outside Nabors, the largest onshore drilling contractor by revenue, know exactly what’s in that blend. This much is clear: One ingredient, an unidentified solvent, can cause damage to the kidney and liver, according to safety information about the product that Michigan state regulators have on file."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/30/2012
"Livestock Falling Ill in Fracking Regions"
"In the midst of the domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. While scientists have yet to isolate cause and effect, many suspect chemicals used in drilling and hydrofracking, or fracking, operations are poisoning animals through the air, water or soil."
Source: FERN Network, 11/30/2012
"BP's Dispersant Allowed Oil To Penetrate Beaches More Deeply"
A new study suggests that BP's use of dispersants during the 2010 Gulf oil spill likely allowed oil to penetrate beaches more deeply, making harmful effects last longer.
Source: Mother Jones, 11/30/2012
"Latest Sanction Against BP Goes Beyond Gulf Spill"
"When the Obama administration temporarily banned BP from federal contracts Wednesday, it pointed to BP's 'lack of business integrity' and conduct relating to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. The sanction, however, has been years in the making."
Source: ProPublica, 11/30/2012
"Saudi-Led Oil Lobby Group Financed 2012 Dark Money Attack Ads"
"The 'American' in American Petroleum Institute, the country's largest oil lobby group, is a misnomer. As I reported for The Nation in August, the group has changed over the years, and is now led by men like Tofiq Al-Gabsani, a Saudi Arabian national who heads a Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) subsidiary, the state-run oil company that also helps finance the American Petroleum Institute. Al-Gabsani is also a registered foreign agent for the Saudi government."
Source: Nation, 11/30/2012
"California Oyster Farm Must Go"
"Ken Salazar, the secretary of the interior, announced on Thursday that he would not extend the lease of an oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California, allowing the estuary there to become a wilderness area."
Source: Green/NYT, 11/30/2012
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