"EPA Will Test 134 More Chemicals for Endocrine Disruption"
"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified a list of 134 chemicals that will be screened for their potential to disrupt the endocrine system."
Source: ENS, 11/18/2010
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"Exxon to Pay $25 Million to Settle Brooklyn Spill Suit"
"Exxon Mobil Corp. agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit over a decades-old oil spill and related environmental contamination in Brooklyn, New York, state Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said."
Source: Bloomberg, 11/18/2010
"Rare Earth Elements in US Not So Rare, Report Finds"
"Approximately 13 million metric tons of rare earth elements (REE) exist within known deposits in the United States, according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of these elements by the U.S. Geological Survey."
Source: Science Daily, 11/18/2010
"Feds Understate the Cost of Climate Disruption, Critics Contend"
"The Obama Administration has ignored wrenching climate impacts such as ocean acidification in its effort to estimate the cost of carbon emissions, making emissions limits disproportionately expensive, economists say."
Source: Daily Climate, 11/17/2010
"U.N. Climate Talks Seek Limited Deal As Costs Soar"
"Almost 200 nations meet in Mexico this month to try to agree a "green fund" for poor countries and other steps toward an elusive climate treaty amid warnings that inaction is driving up the costs of tackling global warming."
Source: Reuters, 11/17/2010
"G.O.P. Opposition Dims Hope for Arms Treaty With Russia"
"President Obama’s hopes of ratifying a new arms control treaty with Russia by the end of the year appeared to come undone on Tuesday as the chief Senate Republican negotiator moved to block a vote on the pact, one of the White House’s top foreign policy goals, in the lame-duck session of Congress."
Source: NYTimes, 11/17/2010
"Analysis: U.S. Solar Industry Wants Grant Program Extended"
"A federal grant program aimed at spurring investment in the U.S. solar industry expires at the end of this year, and its supporters are scrambling to get it extended in the lame-duck session of Congress that started this week."
Source: Reuters, 11/17/2010
"Spill Commission Defends Its Top Lawyer"
"The panel named by President Obama to investigate the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout on Tuesday rejected a call by a consumer activist group for the resignation of its chief counsel, Fred H. Bartlit Jr. The group, Consumer Watchdog, said that the panel should dismiss Mr. Bartlit because his law firm, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, once represented Halliburton, one of the companies involved in drilling the BP well."
Source: Green (NYT), 11/17/2010
"Local Food Advocates Target Food Safety Bill"
"A far-reaching food safety bill that could give the government more power to prevent foodborne illnesses has become a target of advocates for buying food produced locally."
Source: AP, 11/17/2010
"Mutation Advances Set to Flip Biotech Crop Debate"
A new method of manipulating the genetic code of agricultural plants, known as targeted mutation, uses only genes that already exist in the plant. It may upend the debate over "genetic engineering."
Source: Greenwire, 11/17/2010
