"Bird Flu Can Spread in Mammals, Study Finds"
"The results, showing an engineered flu strain can spread easily between ferrets, derive from a controversial study that stirred debate over fears of a bioterrorism threat."
Source: LA Times, 05/03/2012
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"Test Successfully Pulls Natural Gas From Alaskan Ice"
"WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy has successfully completed an unprecedented test of harvesting the vast storehouse on Alaska’s North Slope of methane hydrate, essentially natural gas locked in ice crystals under the permafrost.
Source: McClatchy, 05/03/2012
"EPA: 45 Areas Fail to Achieve Latest Smog Standards"
"WASHINGTON, DC -- Forty-five areas across the country are not meeting the latest government standards for ground-level ozone or smog, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday."
Source: ENS, 05/03/2012
"The Potomac River, In Good Health and Bad"
"If the Potomac River has gotten more attention than the Anacostia in the past 50 years, it’s partly because the Potomac supplies 90 percent of the region’s drinking water. That amounts to an average of 486 million gallons a day, according to the Potomac Conservancy. The Potomac watershed, which includes 14,670 miles of land that drains to the river, covers parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, the District, Maryland and Virginia. In the 1950s, reports of stench and dangerous levels of pollution clouded the Potomac’s reputation. But the 383-mile river wasn’t always in such bad shape."
Source: Wash Post, 05/03/2012
"Rising Coal Exports Have Montana Rail Communities Braced for Worst"
"With Asia's energy demands pulling more U.S. coal to West Coast ports, rail-line communities across Montana fear the effects: More train traffic, health problems, noise and congestion."
Source: Daily Climate, 05/03/2012
"Midwest Generation To Close 2 Chicago Coal Plants Early"
"Edison International announced Wednesday that Midwest Generation will shutter Chicago's Fisk and Crawford coal plants in September, ahead of schedule and years before a state-imposed deadline to clean up or shut down the plants.
Source: Chicago Tribune, 05/03/2012
"New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years"
"A new study has raised fresh concerns about the safety of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, concluding that fracking chemicals injected into the ground could migrate toward drinking water supplies far more quickly than experts have previously predicted."
Source: ProPublica, 05/03/2012
Newspapers in Fracking Secrecy Case Win Support of Doctors, Scientists
"PITTSBURGH -- In a lawsuit over gas industry secrecy, doctors, scientists, researchers and advocates filed court documents supporting two newspapers seeking access to information that could shed light on the health impacts of gas development, including the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. ...
Source: ENS, 05/03/2012
"Lights Out for Research Satellites?"
"Earth-observing systems operated by the United States have entered a steep decline, imperiling the nation’s monitoring of weather, natural disasters and climate change, a report from the National Research Council warned on Wednesday."
Source: Green/NYT, 05/03/2012
"Polar Bears Can Swim Vast Distances, Study Finds"
"Polar bears are capable of swimming vast distances, a potential survival skill needed in an Arctic environment where summer sea ice is vanishing, a study led by the U.S. Geological Survey showed on Tuesday."
Source: Reuters, 05/02/2012
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