"High Ocean Temperatures Endangering Seabirds?"
"Small seabirds are washing up dead on local beaches, an unusual phenomenon that suggests high ocean temperatures are causing starvation."
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 11/19/2014
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"Western New York Snow Storm Could Set Records"
"A winter storm that has brought freezing temperatures to most of the continental U.S. has also dumped several feet of snow on Buffalo and the western parts of New York state and may break local and national records."
Source: AP, 11/19/2014
"Senate Defeats Bill on Keystone XL Pipeline in Narrow Vote"
"Senate Democrats, by a single vote, stopped legislation that would have approved construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, one of the most fractious and expensive battles of the Obama presidency."
Source: NY Times, 11/19/2014
Edelman’s TransCanada Astroturf Docs Expose Oil Industry PR Attack
"Documents obtained by Greenpeace detail a desperate astroturf PR strategy designed by Edelman for TransCanada to win public support for its Energy East tar sands export pipeline. TransCanada has failed for years to win approval of the controversial border-crossing Keystone XL pipeline, so apparently the company has decided to 'win ugly or lose pretty' with an aggressive public relations attack on its opponents."
Source: DeSmogBlog, 11/18/2014
Forest Service To Allow Fracking in George Washington National Forest
"Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia's governor, a federal management plan released Tuesday will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking to occur in parts of the largest national forest on the East Coast."
Source: AP, 11/18/2014
Charlotte Struggles With Cleanup of PCBs from Major Dumping Incident
"CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The city of Charlotte is still trying to recover from one of the worst catastrophes in the city's history."
Source: WSOC-TV, 11/18/2014
"Armyworm Resistance To GMO Crops Seen In U.S. -- Study"
"Crop-devouring armyworms are showing increasing resistance in some U.S. farm fields to a popular type of genetically modified crop that should kill them, scientists said on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 11/18/2014
Nuclear Agency Rules Are Ill-Suited for Plant Decommissioning: Leader
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s rules are not geared for supervising the decommissioning of nuclear reactors, the task that will occupy much of its time in the coming years, the head of the agency, Allison M. Macfarlane, said Monday."
Source: NY Times, 11/18/2014
Peru Prepares to Host Climate Talks as Indigenous Forest Defenders Die
"The nonprofit group Global Witness makes some valuable points in a new report offering Peru a path to cut the violence on its poorly governed resource frontier in the Amazon. The report, 'Peru’s Deadly Environment,' is being released today at a Manhattan event organized with the Alexander Soros Foundation."
Source: Dot Earth, 11/18/2014
"Groups Allege 28,000 Mining Violations, Lax Enforcement"
"Kentucky environmental advocates accused state regulators today of lax enforcement of water quality rules while putting a mining company on notice that they intend to sue over claims of thousands of false pollution reports during the last year."
Source: Louisville Courier-Journall, 11/18/2014
