"For Exxon, Hybrid Car Technology Was Another Road Not Taken"
"Exxon’s ambitious work on powering clean vehicles 40 years ago parallels its cutting-edge research on climate change during the same era."
Source: InsideClimate News, 10/05/2016
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"Where Americans Find Common Ground On Climate Issues"
"Americans’ views on climate change diverge sharply depending on their political affiliations, says a new Pew Research poll. But two areas of consensus are emerging."
Source: Christian Science Monitor, 10/05/2016
"BP Platform Leaks 95 Tonnes Of Oil Into North Sea"
"Spill 46 miles off Shetland is being monitored by air and said to be heading away from land and dispersing".
Source: Guardian, 10/04/2016
Russia Suspends Plutonium Deal After Obama Scraps S. Carolina Plant
"President Vladimir Putin suspended a 16-year-old deal with the United States to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium on Monday, further calling into question the future of the beleaguered mixed oxide facility at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina."
Source: McClatchy, 10/04/2016
Canada Will Tax Carbon Emissions To Meet Paris Climate Pact Targets
"The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said on Monday that Canada will impose a tax on carbon emissions starting in 2018 as part of its efforts to meet targets set by the Paris climate change accord."
Source: AP, 10/04/2016
Protection Of Illinois River From Coal Ash In Regulatory Gray Area
"As a persistent rain pelts the clear, swift Middle Fork of the Vermilion River on a mid-September day, the water swells and rises. Clumps of tree roots hang precariously over the river, exposed by the crumbly, receding banks. Where the bank is firmer, the water has carved out tiny caves."
Source: Midwest Energy News, 10/03/2016
"North Sea Oil Platform Closed Down While Leak Investigated"
"An oil platform in the North Sea has been shut down following a leak."
Source: Scotsman, 10/03/2016
State Finds No Injustice With New Coal Ash Landfills; Activists Do
"The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says coal ash ponds and landfills disproportionately affect poor and minority communities across the U.S. But that’s not what North Carolina officials found when they conducted their own 'environmental justice reviews' of two sites this year."
Source: WFAE, 09/30/2016
NC Senator Who Champions Fossil Fuels Got Industry Money For 20 Years
"With checkbooks in hand, executives from the embattled coal mining industry converged last year on the remote Olde Farm Golf Club near southwest Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains."
Source: McClatchy, 09/30/2016
"Md. Fracking Regulations Include Enhanced Buffers Around Wells"
"Maryland’s long-awaited fracking regulations would ban drilling in three watersheds in Western Maryland and require extensive safeguards around drilling sites, protections that Secretary of the Environment Ben H. Grumbles called 'the most stringent' in the country."
Source: Wash Post, 09/29/2016
