Hamilton, Ontario: "Feds Won’t Help Clean Up Airport"
"Transport Minister Denis Lebel has turned down Hamilton’s request for help cleaning up historic airport pollution that happened on the federal government’s watch."
Source: Metroland, 08/02/2012
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Pennsylvania Doctor Sues Over Disclosure Bans in New Fracking Law
"A Luzerne County physician claims in a federal lawsuit that Pennsylvania's new oil and natural gas drilling law will force him to violate ethical rules in treating his patients."
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 08/02/2012
"EPA Can't Regulate Livestock Farms It Can't Find"
A recent EPA shutdown of its effort to gather basic information on livestock feeding operations may make it impossible for the agency to regulate water and air pollution from the manure they generate.
Source: AP, 08/02/2012
"Aging Power Grid on Overload As U.S. Demands More Electricity"
"The United States doesn’t yet face the critical shortage of power that has left more than 600 million people in India without electricity this week. But the U.S. grid is aging and stretched to capacity. More often the victim of decrepitude than the forces of nature, it is beginning to falter. Experts fear failures that caused blackouts in New York, Boston and San Diego may become more common as the voracious demand for power continues to grow. They say it will take a multibillion-dollar investment to avoid them."
Source: Wash Post, 08/02/2012
"Fishing For Contaminants: Lake Trout a Harbinger of Global Pollutants"
Lake Ontario's lake trout have been a key indicator of pollution that affects humans and other species.
Source: EHN, 08/02/2012
"Ancestral Remedies to the Rescue"
As ethnobotanists meet in New York City, they offer reminders that obscure and endangered species should be preserved because they sometimes form the basis of miracle drugs.
Source: Green/NYT, 08/02/2012
"The Great Disposal Service: Can It Last?"
"The earth is performing an enormous disposal service for the human race. About half of the carbon we are dumping into the atmosphere does not stay there and is instead taken up by the oceans and land. Were this not the case, scientists say, the earth would probably be warming far more rapidly. One of the biggest questions in climate science is: How long will that disposal service last?"
Source: Green/NYT, 08/02/2012
Renewable Tax Break May Bring Romney Trouble in Windy Swing States
"Democrats, environmentalists and clean energy backers hope GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's solidified opposition to a key wind energy tax break helps motivate voters in closely contested, windy states to tip the election toward President Obama."
Source: E&E Daily, 08/02/2012
"Rapid Arctic Sea Ice Loss On Par with 2007 Record Season"
"With about a month and a half remaining in the Arctic melt season, sea ice cover continues to decline at a rapid pace, and is currently on par with where the 2007 record melt season stood at the same time of year."
Source: Climate Central, 08/02/2012
"Highlight Reel: Senate Climate Change Smackdown" (VIDEO)
A Senate Environment Committee hearing on climate science Wednesday only exemplified the political deadlock that keeps the United States from basing policy on established science.
Source: Mother Jones, 08/02/2012
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