"Wind Industry Wins Key Victory in Senate"
"The wind energy industry won a key victory Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee that extended an important tax credit for renewables."
Source: Washington Examiner, 07/22/2015
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"New Marijuana Industry Wrestles With Pesticides and Safety"
"Microscopic bugs and mildew can destroy a marijuana operation faster than any police raid. And because the crop has been illegal for so long, neither growers nor scientists have any reliable research to help fight the infestations."
Source: AP, 07/21/2015
"Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in First Nation Uses Frozen Salmon at Youth Fish Camp"
"Declining salmon populations mean Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in elders can't teach fishing like they used to".
Source: CBS News, 07/21/2015
Utah Approves Tar Sands Mine But Requires Water Monitoring
"Utah state officials have given the go-ahead for a tar sands mine under construction on the eastern flank of the state. They will, however, require the company to do water and air quality monitoring in a move environmentalists are calling a victory."
Source: AP, 07/21/2015
FERC Moves To Combat Emerging Utility Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities
"Federal regulators have begun a push for new cybersecurity defenses to prevent sophisticated attackers from penetrating utility control rooms and other industrial control system centers by infiltrating malware on third-party vendors' products."
Source: EnergyWire, 07/21/2015
Famous Climate Scientist Outlines Alarming Scenario for Planet’s Future
"James Hansen has often been out ahead of his scientific colleagues."
Source: Wash Post, 07/21/2015
"How Green Is Hillary Clinton?"
"When Hillary Clinton kick-started her second presidential campaign on June 13 at New York's Roosevelt Island, environmentalists were all ears—and so were environmental reporters."
Source: National Journal, 07/21/2015
"Australia's War on Wind Farms Threatens Biggest Renewable Project"
"Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's hostility to 'visually awful' wind farms has sent a chill through the industry and could jeopardize the country's biggest renewable energy project, a $2 billion-plus wind and solar plant in the country's north."
Source: Reuters, 07/21/2015
"The Wind and Sun Are Bringing the Shine Back to Buffalo"
"BUFFALO — Along a bend in the Buffalo River here, an enormous steel and concrete structure is rising, soon to house one of the country’s largest solar panel factories. Just to the south, in the rotting guts of the old Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, where a dozen wind turbines already harness the energy blowing off Lake Erie, workers are preparing to install a big new solar array."
Source: NY Times, 07/21/2015
"Drought Damages Wheat in Northwestern States"
"Intense drought conditions have shrunk the kernels and disrupted the proteins of winter wheat crops in Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho, the region that produces a fifth of the U.S. harvest."
Source: NY Times, 07/21/2015
