"Pennsylvania To Regulate Salt Discharges"
"The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is working to regulate salt discharges that result from natural-gas drilling."
Source: ES&T, 07/09/2009
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Greenpeace Climate Climbers Busted on Mt. Rushmore
"Greenpeace activists were arrested Wednesday for scaling Mount Rushmore and hanging a banner next to the carved face of Abraham Lincoln urging President Barack Obama to get tough on climate change."
Source: AFP, 07/09/2009
"Global Deal on Climate-Warming HFCs Hinges on Secret White House Policy"
"Hydrofluorocarbons ... are ... many thousands of times more potent than CO2 as climate warming agents, and scientists say their spread could become as much as 50 percent of the global greenhouse gas problem by 2050. Yet the public is barely aware of the issue, and as the White House works to hammer out its policy, it seems to want to keep it that way."
Source: SolveClimate, 07/09/2009
"Group of 8 Agrees On a Ceiling for Temperature Rise"
"The world's leading industrial nations tentatively agreed Wednesday to try to prevent global temperatures from rising above a fixed level, after a more far-reaching proposal to slash production of greenhouse gases fizzled... ."
Source: WashPost, 07/09/2009
"Enviros Sue Over Energy Transmission Across Federal Lands"
"A coalition of environmental groups is suing federal agencies in an effort to change the location of corridors to transmit energy across Western lands."
Source: NYTimes, 07/09/2009
Coaches To Be Warned About Air Pollution
Should youth practice or play sports outdoors on days when the EPA cautions them against heavy exercise?
Source: Louisville Courier-Journal, 07/08/2009
"Hiring Lambs As Landscapers"
"Wine makers are shaking things up in their vineyards. Some of them use natural and organic methods to control pests and weeds instead of using pesticides. Now, one winery has discovered a unique, natural way to prune their grape vines."
Source: Environment Report, 07/08/2009
Bark Beetles Seen as Natural Event
The bark beetles devastating millions of acres of western pine forests are actually a native insect whose destruction -- like that of wildfire -- is part of a natural cycle of forest regeneration.
Source: NYTimes, 07/08/2009
"A Decade After Storm, Minnesota Wild Rejuvenates"
"On July 4, 1999, a storm devastated the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in northern Minnesota and killed millions of trees. Now, the forest is growing back." Everybody who was there 10 years ago has a story.
Source: NPR, 07/08/2009
Did EPA's Jackson Try To Suppress NJ PFOA Study?
An environmental advocacy group has charged that EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, when she headed New Jersey's environmental agency, sought to block publication of a study on the health effects of toxic chemical PFOA on grounds that it had not been sufficiently peer-reviewed. She later relented.
Source: Charleston Gazette, 07/08/2009
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