"NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown"
"Kennedy Space Center and other NASA facilities near coastlines are facing the prospect of continually rising waters."
Source: NY Times, 04/06/2016
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Planned Gas Pipeline at Indian Point Nuclear Plant Stirs Meltdown Fears
"Leak in pipeline being built by energy giant Spectra could lead to shutdown – or worse – at the New York state power station, experts say".
Source: Guardian, 04/06/2016
AES Settles Claims That It Killed or Deformed Babies With Coal Ash
"AES Corp. settled a lawsuit accusing the power-generating company of allowing one of its units to dump coal ash on beaches in the Dominican Republic, which allegedly caused a spate of birth defects in children."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/06/2016
"Johnson & Johnson Has a Baby Powder Problem"
"More than 1,000 women are suing the company for covering up a cancer risk."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/06/2016
Hogan Signs Bills To Slash Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Expand Open Space
"Maryland must sharply reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and restore funding to preserve open space as a result of two bills that Gov. Larry Hogan (R) signed into law Monday."
Source: Wash Post, 04/06/2016
"Smithsonian Gives Nod to More 'Dark Money' Funding for Willie Soon"
"The Smithsonian Institution's new transparency policy hasn't kept prominent climate contrarian Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon from reeling in $65,000 in "dark money" to fund a secret research project."
Source: InsideClimate News, 04/06/2016
"Coal Baron Don Blankenship Faces Sentencing Today"
"Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining company like a fiefdom -- a coal baron and power broker who earned millions of dollars a year -- will learn on Wednesday whether he goes to prison."
Source: Bloomberg, 04/06/2016
A Rare Conviction For The Slaying Of A Latin American Environmentalist
"Four men have been found guilty in Costa Rica for the killing of a sea turtle conservationist in 2013. The chief of a three-judge panel said the slaying of Jairo Mora Sandoval, who worked for a green group called Widecast, was tied to his activism in a war 'between poachers and environmentalists on the beach.'"
Source: Wash Post, 04/06/2016
"Fiji Braces For 2nd Cyclone, Thousands Shelter In Evacuation Centers"
"Cyclone Zena, a category three tropical storm with winds in excess of 120 kph (75 mph), is set to hit Fiji within 24 hours as the South Pacific island nation struggles to recover from a devastating cyclone in February."
Source: Reuters, 04/06/2016
"Administration to Make Most of Obama's Final Months"
"Administration officials are mindful that President Barack Obama's second term in the White House is drawing to a close but said work is not yet complete on the president's environmental priorities."
Source: Daily Environment Report, 04/06/2016
